[PDF] Build Like Its The End Of The World eBook

Author : Sandeep Ahuja
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 2024-09-18
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1394179170

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Authoritative roadmap to the design and construction of a carbon-positive built environment Build Like It’s the End of the World stands as a compelling manifesto for the AEC industry, confronting the urgent challenges of climate change with actionable solutions. Authored by Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson, this text embarks on a journey to redefine the future of our built environment. Through a lens of decarbonization, it challenges established norms and introduces a new benchmark for sustainable design and construction. This book not only advocates for a radical shift in design and construction philosophy but also provides a concrete blueprint for achieving carbon-positivity in our projects and practices. The authors bring their extensive experience and research to the forefront, offering a guide that marries rigorous analytical methods with practical applications. It is a call to action, urging professionals and students alike to embrace innovative technologies and strategies that can lead to significant changes in how we conceive and construct our spaces. Within its pages, readers will find: A comprehensive strategy for carbon-positive design: a detailed blueprint showcases step-by-step how sustainable practices can be integrated into projects, drawing on the authors’ vast experience and thorough research. Engaging tools for practical implementation: bridging the gap between high-level sustainability goals and their execution, providing readers with learning objectives, instructional activities, and compelling case studies. Insights on embedding sustainable practices: it offers valuable perspectives on incorporating carbon-positive principles into existing workflows, highlighting the simplicity and profound impact of these efforts. The economic and cultural case for sustainable buildings: demonstrating the viability and necessity of carbon-positive buildings, emphasizing the importance of a cultural shift towards decarbonization in the construction industry. Build Like It’s the End of the World is an essential read for anyone in the AEC field looking to navigate the complexities of decarbonization of buildings. It serves as a powerful testament to the role of technology and strategic innovation in transforming the industry, guiding us towards a future where our buildings play a pivotal role in the health of our planet.

Author : Keely Shinners
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2022-03-21
Category :
ISBN : 9781734127621

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How To Build a Home for the End of the World is a case study in three parts, authored by Californian anthropologist, Dr. Maria Camphor, and commissioned by the International Program for the Advancement and Longevity of the Universal Body. Contained within this frame, the 'case' is the story of Donny, a carpenter who renovates houses nobody lives in, and his daughter Mary-Beth, who is hell-bent on following her first love, Ida, to California, where she has gone to seek care for a chronic illness.Together, father and daughter must go on a road trip across a waterless American wasteland, populated by a cast of angels and ghosts, revolutionaries and academics, performance artists and desert hippies. Along the way, they must reckon with past mistakes, a broken home, and their own contentious relationship with each other. What home, if any, can we build in the face of oblivion? What is love like when memory, bodily integrity and relationships disintegrate? How do we deal with our staggering fragility when bodies and families are dismembered and reassembled? How can we still find time for joy and love and beauty without dishonest platitudes? How do we negotiate hope and despair? This novel explores these questions.

Author : Philip Zelikow
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1538764660

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A deeply researched international history and "exemplary study" (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great time of choosing. Two of America's leading scholar-diplomats, Philip Zelikow and Condoleezza Rice, have combed sources in several languages, interviewed leading figures, and drawn on their own firsthand experience to bring to life the choices that molded the contemporary world. Zeroing in on the key moments of decision, the might-have-beens, and the human beings working through them, they explore both what happened and what could have happened, to show how one world ended and another took form. Beginning in the late 1970s and carrying into the present, they focus on the momentous period between 1988 and 1992, when an entire world system changed, states broke apart, and societies were transformed. Such periods have always been accompanied by terrible wars -- but not this time. This is also a story of individuals coping with uncertainty. They voice their hopes and fears. They try out desperate improvisations and careful designs. These were leaders who grew up in a "postwar" world, who tried to fashion something better, more peaceful, more prosperous, than the damaged, divided world in which they had come of age. New problems are putting their choices, and the world they made, back on the operating table. It is time to recall not only why they made their choices, but also just how great nations can step up to great challenges. Timed for the thirtieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, To Build a Better World is an authoritative depiction of contemporary statecraft. It lets readers in on the strategies and negotiations, nerve-racking risks, last-minute decisions, and deep deliberations behind the dramas that changed the face of Europe -- and the world -- forever.

Author : Sandeep Ahuja
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,15 MB
Release : 2024-08-02
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1394179189

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Authoritative roadmap to the design and construction of a carbon-positive built environment Build Like It’s the End of the World stands as a compelling manifesto for the AEC industry, confronting the urgent challenges of climate change with actionable solutions. Authored by Sandeep Ahuja and Patrick Chopson, this text embarks on a journey to redefine the future of our built environment. Through a lens of decarbonization, it challenges established norms and introduces a new benchmark for sustainable design and construction. This book not only advocates for a radical shift in design and construction philosophy but also provides a concrete blueprint for achieving carbon-positivity in our projects and practices. The authors bring their extensive experience and research to the forefront, offering a guide that marries rigorous analytical methods with practical applications. It is a call to action, urging professionals and students alike to embrace innovative technologies and strategies that can lead to significant changes in how we conceive and construct our spaces. Within its pages, readers will find: A comprehensive strategy for carbon-positive design: a detailed blueprint showcases step-by-step how sustainable practices can be integrated into projects, drawing on the authors’ vast experience and thorough research. Engaging tools for practical implementation: bridging the gap between high-level sustainability goals and their execution, providing readers with learning objectives, instructional activities, and compelling case studies. Insights on embedding sustainable practices: it offers valuable perspectives on incorporating carbon-positive principles into existing workflows, highlighting the simplicity and profound impact of these efforts. The economic and cultural case for sustainable buildings: demonstrating the viability and necessity of carbon-positive buildings, emphasizing the importance of a cultural shift towards decarbonization in the construction industry. Build Like It’s the End of the World is an essential read for anyone in the AEC field looking to navigate the complexities of decarbonization of buildings. It serves as a powerful testament to the role of technology and strategic innovation in transforming the industry, guiding us towards a future where our buildings play a pivotal role in the health of our planet.

Author : James Asmus
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 20,17 MB
Release : 2019-09-25
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :

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It's the end of the world as we know it, and everyone feels terrified. With nowhere left to run from the apocalypse all around them, hard choices will have to made, blood will have to be shed, and a species might have to die.