Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the EnviBUILD 2013, Buildings and Environment, October 17, 2013, Bratislava, Slovakia. The 120 papers are grouped as follows: Chapter 1: Energy Efficient Buildings, Chapter 2: Heat Storage and Energy Savings,Chapter 3: Integration of Renewable Energy sources, Chapter 4: Effective Ventilation, Chapter 5: Quality of Indoor Environment,Chapter 6: Natural and Environmental Friendly Building Materials, Chapter 7: Acoustic Design and Noise Protection,Chapter 8: Fire Protection, Risk Analysis, Chapter 9: Information Technologies in Building,Chapter 10: Sustainable Development and Project Management in Building Keyword: Energy Efficient Buildings, Heat Storage and Energy Savings, Integration of Renewable Energy sources, Effective Ventilation, Quality of Indoor Environment, Natural and Environmental Friendly Building Materials, Acoustic Design and Noise Protection, Fire Protection, Risk Analysis, Information Technologies in Building, Sustainable Development and Project Management in Building.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second IFIP TC 5/8 International Conference on Information and Communication Technology, ICT-Eur Asia 2014, with the collocation of Asia ARES 2014 as a special track on Availability, Reliability and Security, held in Bali, Indonesia, in April 2014. The 70 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions. The papers have been organized in the following topical sections: applied modeling and simulation; mobile computing; advanced urban-scale ICT applications; semantic web and knowledge management; cloud computing; image processing; software engineering; collaboration technologies and systems; e-learning; data warehousing and data mining; e-government and e-health; biometric and bioinformatics systems; network security; dependable systems and applications; privacy and trust management; cryptography; multimedia security and dependable systems and applications.
Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 6th International Conference on Contemporary Problems of Architecture and Construction, June 24-27, 2014, Ostrava,
The International Conference on Engineering Sciences and Technologies (ESaT 2015), organized under the auspices of the Faculty of Civil Engineering, Technical University in Koice Slovak Republic was held May 2729, 2015 in the High Tatras, Slovak Republic. Facilitating discussions on novel and fundamental advances in the fields of
This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of civil, environmental and construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the XXX Annual Russian-Polish-Slovak Seminar Theoretical Foundation of Civil Engineering (RSP), held in September 2021. Co-organized by six universities from Russia, Poland and Slovakia, the event covered diverse topics such as structural mechanics; building structures; geodesy and geotechnics; transport and environmental issues in civil engineering. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.
Effective building performance simulation can reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, improve indoor quality and productivity, and facilitate future innovation and technological progress in construction. It draws on many disciplines, including physics, mathematics, material science, biophysics and human behavioural, environmental and computational sciences. The discipline itself is continuously evolving and maturing, and improvements in model robustness and fidelity are constantly being made. This has sparked a new agenda focusing on the effectiveness of simulation in building life-cycle processes. Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation begins with an introduction to the concepts of performance indicators and targets, followed by a discussion on the role of building simulation in performance-based building design and operation. This sets the ground for in-depth discussion of performance prediction for energy demand, indoor environmental quality (including thermal, visual, indoor air quality and moisture phenomena), HVAC and renewable system performance, urban level modelling, building operational optimization and automation. Produced in cooperation with the International Building Performance Simulation Association (IBPSA), and featuring contributions from fourteen internationally recognised experts in this field, this book provides a unique and comprehensive overview of building performance simulation for the complete building life-cycle from conception to demolition. It is primarily intended for advanced students in building services engineering, and in architectural, environmental or mechanical engineering; and will be useful for building and systems designers and operators.
A succinct, approachable guide to the origins, development, key texts, concepts, and practices of yoga. Yoga is practiced by many millions of people worldwide and is celebrated for its mental, physical, and spiritual benefits. And yet, as Daniel Simpson reveals in The Truth of Yoga, much of what is said about yoga is misleading. For example, the word “yoga” does not always mean union. In fact, in perhaps the discipline’s most famous text—the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali—its aim is described as separation: isolating consciousness from everything else. And yoga is not five thousand years old, as is commonly claimed; the earliest evidence of practice dates back about twenty-five hundred years. (Yoga may well be older, but no one can prove it.) The Truth of Yoga is a clear, concise, and accessible handbook for the lay reader that draws upon abundant recent scholarship. It outlines these new findings with practitioners in mind, highlighting ways to keep traditions alive in the twenty-first century.
Proceedings of the 12th international enviBUILD conference (7th & 8th September 2017) Selected, peer reviewed papers from the 12th international enviBUILD conference, September 7-8, 2017, Vienna, Austria