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Part I: Sustainable Built Environment -- Bioclimatic Design -- Daylighting Controls, Performance, and Global Impacts -- Facades and Enclosures, Building for Sustainability -- Geothermal Conditioning: Critical Sources for Sustainability -- Indoor Environmental Quality and Health Improvement, Evidence-Based Design for -- Natural Ventilation in Built Environment -- Passive House (Passivhaus) -- Passive Solar Heating in Built Environment -- Rating Systems for Sustainability -- Regenerative Development and Design -- Resource Repletion, Role of Buildings -- Sustainability Performance Simulation Tools for Building Design -- Sustainable and Healthy Built Environment -- Sustainable Built Environment, Introduction -- Sustainable Design and Construction, Integrated Delivery Processes and Building Information Modeling -- Sustainable Heating Ventilation and Air Conditioning -- Part II: Sustainable Landscape Design, Urban Forestry and Green Roof Science and Technology -- Biodiversity in Cities, Reconnecting Humans with Nature -- Green Infrastructure and Climate Change -- Green Roofs, Ecological Functions.

This timely e-book presents a cross section of the legal research which is currently being undertaken in the built environment academic community. The articles address a wide range of traditional legal subject areas including property law, construction law, housing law, regulatory frameworks, IT law, historic buildings legislation and legal education. Their uniqueness however lies in the legal contribution that each of them make in addressing the problems and challenges of the built environment, in addition, of course, to the development of legal knowledge within their particular legal special

The physical upgrading of the existing domestic and industrial building stock to improve energy performance is an essential part of a transition to a low carbon society. Successfully retrofitting buildings to improve energy performance is not simply a technological challenge, it is a complex socio-technical problem that needs to be addressed in a co-ordinated way, utilising skills and knowledge from a range of industrial and academic backgrounds. Within both the academic and practitioner communities there is a growing understanding of the scale and nature of the problem, one which encompasses issues such as policy and regulation, people and behaviour, supply chain and process, as well as issues of technology. Retrofitting the Built Environment discusses the factors that impact on the retrofit problem, providing a clear analysis of the main issues that the academic and industrial communities must engage with to resolve the problems of domestic energy and retrofit. The book is divided into four broad sections: Understanding the Problem Policy and Regulation Implementing and Evaluating Retrofit People and Communities Academic and industrial researchers, policy makers and industry practitioners will find each section covers a mix of policy, technical and social science issues, presented by both academic and industry authors, giving a wide and detailed perspective of the issue. The Editors Will Swan is a Senior Lecturer in Buildings Retrofit in the School of the Built Environment at the University of Salford. He leads a number of projects in the field of sustainable retrofit, covering a number of topics including monitoring, behaviour and retrofit project delivery, as part of Salford's Applied Energy and Buildings Research Group. He sits on the Greater Manchester Buildings Group and also is Chair of the Retrofit Innovation Group. Philip Brown is

The downgrade of natural environment in the last decades is obvious and the source of problem is located in urban centers. Respectively, the solution of the problem should be sought there. The ecological urban planning aims at the upgrade of urban space, redefining its relationship with residents. The present article methodizes the approach to the ecological urban planning and it is one of the there are too. Particularly, it essays an approach to the ecological urban planning through the management of those elements that compose the operation of a city and concerns the management and the control of green space, energy, water, transports, litter and society. In this way, a catholic consideration and management of the urban space, as well as a set of policies and actions for its upgrade, is achieved. Furthermore, specific references to examples in Greece – problems and perspectives – are made. Coinstantaneously, the study of international and European cities that have achieved a high level of quality of life is the proof that the ecological city does not constitute a utopia, but a challenge for the society, the planners, the local governments and the residents-users. Finally, the institutional frame and the policies, that support the ecological urban planning, are analyzed, as these are the base for its implementation.