Tall Buildings: From Engineering To Sustainability
Will be published approx. on 27. December 2005
Book
Hardback
1168 pages
978-981-256-620-1 (ISBN)
Description
A collection of papers presented at the Sixth International Conference on Tall Buildings (ICTB), this volume clearly explains the engineering and socio-economic aspects of tall buildings in specific areas of sustainability. The papers focus on Asian cities, where tall buildings have become a major feature of the built environment. A multi-disciplinary book, it also deals with the increasing complexity of inter-related problems that require knowledge integration from different disciplines. With interesting contributions from distinguished practitioners, academics and policy makers, the book addresses the development and application of knowledge in solving problems related to tall buildings.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Singapore
Singapore
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Built environment academicians, civil engineers, structural engineers, building services engineers, fire engineers, mechanical engineers, architects, environmental scientists, estate surveyors, quantity surveyors, town planners, urban geographers and urban economists.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 223 mm
Thickness: 67 mm
Weight
3121 gr
ISBN-13
978-981-256-620-1 (9789812566201)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
* The Shifting Paradigms of High-Rise Living (B Yuen) * Variable Friction Dampers for Earthquake Protection of Coupled Building Structures (C L Ng & Y L Xu) * Study on Optimal Shear Wall Quantity of Frame-Shear Wall Structures in Earthquake Zone (S Huang & K Song) * Limiting Force Profile and Laterally Loaded Pile Groups (W D Guo) * Steel Structure Design of Zhongguancun Financial Center Tower (Z Fan & C Hu) * Analysis of Transfer Plate Structure Using 3D Coupling Element (S H Lo et al.) * Research on Intelligent Control of Bulldozer's Transmission (C Zhang et al.) * Fire Disaster and Prevention Management of Tall Buildings (L K Lin et al.) * Criterion to Evaluate the High Office Building (J Wang & H F Zhu) * The Relationship between Water and Landscape (J Liu) * Implications of Solar Chimney Size for Ventilation (M Haase & A Amato) * Hong Kong: Road to Super Sustainable City (C C T Yeung & K L T Lee) * Can We Live "High and Healthy"? (M Townsend) * and other papers