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This unique volume offers insights from renowned experts in energy efficient building from the world over, providing a multi-faceted overview of the state-of-the-art in energy efficient architecture. It opens by defining what constitutes a sustainable building, suggesting bases for sorely needed benchmarks, then explains the most important techniques and tools available to engineers and architects exploring green building technologies. It covers such pivotal issues as daylighting, LED lighting, integrating renewables such as solar thermal and cooling, retrofitting, LEED and similar certification efforts, passive houses, net-zero and close-zero structures, water recycling, and much more. High...
The journey of Jenny Dewberry's magical life continues in the fourth book as she fights the most nefarious, evil demon ever to exist. This demon, the Emperor of the underground, the greatest Sorcerer ever, is the cause of all the corruption going on in Oceanview, where Jenny and her family and friends live. The once safe and beautiful city is now in turmoil and is altered to blackness and despair. The minds of snippits are turning evil and are under the spell of the unknown demon that Jenny has to find. She has no idea who he is or how to find him. The demon, King of Darkness, wants to destroy all of white magic by taking over the World of Witchery and banishing the Washena and Wizard. Jenny...
Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions (IDDS) represent a significant new research trajectory in the integration of architecture and construction through the rapid adoption of new processes. This book examines the ways in which collaboration and new methods of contracting and procurement enhance skills and improve processes in terms of lean and sustainable construction. Based on high quality research and practice-based examples that provide key insights into IDDS and its future potential, this book surveys the technologies that are being employed to create more sustainable buildings with added value for clients, stakeholders and society as whole.
F. Robert Henderson has had an improbable life. He was born in Texas in 1933. His parents were both born in Kansas. At the age of eight, his father and mother split up. He grew up under his mother’s care. He attended college and received a Master’s Degree in Botany and Zoology from Fort Hays Kansas State University. He attended the University of Kansas where in 1960 a book he wrote was published by the Kansas State Biological Survey, entitled “Beaver in Kansas”. From 1961-1968, he worked as a Field Biologist for the state wildlife agency in South Dakota. During that time he wrote several articles in scientific journals, the most important being the results of the first study of Black...
A cutting-edge introduction to coastal wetlands and their applications, for students on related earth and life science courses and researchers.
Cody Matheson, PhD in marine biology battles to save precious Florida wetlands from ruthless developers. Divorced, with two womenin love with him, he is besieged by the developer's manipulative wife, who inolves him in a web of intrigue.
George Webb married Nancy Knuckles, daughter of John Knuckles, 13 February 1795 in Botetourt County, Virginia. They had two children. He married Caroline Ritchie, widow of John Ritchie, and they had one child. He died in about 1821 in Tazewell County, Virginia. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Virginia, West Virginia and Ohio.
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