This unique book correlates the latest knowledge about the design, Management, technology and sustainability of intelligent buildings with the cultural developments affecting the way people live and work.
Intelligent Buildings provides a through introduction to all the key areas of this important subject, with contributions from leading academics and practitioners in the field and featuring a series of real-life case studies. It will serve as a valuable text for students in architechture, engineering and built environment courses, as well as professionals involved in building procurement, design and management.
Foreword (Dr Baoxing Qiu)
Preface to the First Edition
Preface to the Second Edition
Part I : People-Centred Sustainable Design
Chapter 1 : Sustainable Healthy Intelligent Buildings for People Chapter 2 : Lessons From Nature for Sustainable Architecture Chapter 3 : Environmental Health and Well-Being in Buildings Chapter 4 : Environmental Sensory Design
Part II : Intelligent, Smart and Digital Approaches
Chapter 5 : Intelligent Environments Chapter 6 : Designing Intelligent Buildings for People's Well-Being using an Artificial Intelligence Approach Chapter 7 : Wireless Sensors for Monitoring People and Their Close Environment Chapter 8 : Designing Intelligent Pervasive Spaces for Living and Working Chapter 9 : Intelligent Energy Saving in the Home : A User Centred Design Perspective
Part III : Management and Operation Processes
Chapter 10 : Procurement and Management of Integrated Projects Chapter 11 : Building and Virtual Information Modelling in Intelligent Buildings Chapter 12 : Design Management Chapter 13 : Intelligent and Sustainable Facilities Management
Part IV : Case Studies
Chapter 14 : The Changing Culture of Living and Working : Physical and Virtual Modalities Chapter 15 : Gardens by the Bay, Singapore : Intelligent Building through Design Integration and Optimisation Chapter 16 : Sky Studios, Hounslow, UK, and the Internet of Things Chapter 17 : 8 Storey's Gate, London, UK - Retrofitting Intelligent Design and Systems in a Grade II Listed Building
Part V : Futures
Chapter 18 : Intelligent, Sustainable, Liveable Cities Chapter 19 : Opportunities and Challenges for Intelligent Buildings Chapter 20 : Innovative Futures
