Built Environment Textbooks

New and Published Textbooks

1. An Introduction to Electrical Science

   By Adrian Waygood

   An Introduction to Electrical Science walks readers through the subject in a logical order, providing a historical overview alongside modern electrical theory and practice. Perfect for electrical trainees both during their training and once qualified. You will be guided through the subject in a...

   Published April 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. Building Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings

   By Paul Tymkow, Savvas Tassou, Maria Kolokotroni, Hussam Jouhara

   The role and influence of building services engineers is undergoing rapid change and is pivotal to achieving low-carbon buildings. However, textbooks in the field have largely focused on the detailed technicalities of HVAC systems, often with little wider context. This book addresses that need by...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
3. Low Carbon Nation?

   By Mike Hodson, Simon Marvin

   What does the transition to a Low Carbon Britain mean for the future development of cities and regions across the country? Does it reinforce existing ‘business as usual’ or create new transformational opportunities? Low Carbon Nation? takes an interdisciplinary approach to tackle this critical...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
4. Basic Electrical Installation Work

   7th Edition

   By Trevor Linsley

   Aligned with the 17th edition IET Wiring Regulations, this new edition has been fully updated to cover the City & Guilds 2365 course. Written in an easy to follow style with each chapter of the book dedicated to a unit of the syllabus, this book helps students to master each topic before moving...

   Published April 1st 2013 by Routledge
5. Living within a Fair Share Ecological Footprint

   Edited by Robert Vale, Brenda Vale

   According to many authorities the impact of humanity on the earth is already overshooting the earth’s capacity to supply humanity’s needs. This is an unsustainable position. This book does not focus on the problem but on the solution, by showing what it is like to live within a fair earth share...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
6. Collaborative Design Management

   By Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar

   The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role ...

   Published March 21st 2013 by Routledge
7. Practical Guide to Inspection, Testing and Certification of Electrical Installations

   3rd Edition

   By Christopher Kitcher

   This book answers all your questions on the basics of inspection and testing with clear reference to the latest legal requirements. Christopher Kitcher not only tells you what tests are needed but also describes all of them in a step-by-step manner with the help of colour photos. Sample forms show...

   Published March 19th 2013 by Routledge
8. Urban Ecosystems

   Understanding the Human Environment

   By Robert A. Francis, Michael A. Chadwick

   With over half of the global human population living in urban regions, urban ecosystems may now represent the contemporary and future human environment. Consisting of green space and the built environment, they harbour a wide range of species, yet are not well understood. This book aims...

   Published March 12th 2013 by Routledge
9. Architecture Re-assembled

   The Use (and Abuse) of History

   By Trevor Garnham

   Beginning from the rise of modern history in the eighteenth century, this book examines how changing ideas in the discipline of history itself has affected architecture from the beginning of modernity up to the present day. It reflects upon history in order to encourage and assist the reader in...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
10. Transcultural Cities

    Border-Crossing and Placemaking

    Edited by Jeffrey Hou

    Transcultural Cities uses a framework of transcultural placemaking, cross-disciplinary inquiry and transnational focus to examine a collection of case studies around the world, presented by a multidisciplinary group of scholars and activists in architecture, urban planning, urban studies, art,...

    Published February 3rd 2013 by Routledge