Sustainability And Health In Intelligent Buildings

Download or read book Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings written by Riadh Habash and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings presents a comprehensive roadmap for designing and constructing high-performance clean energy-efficient buildings, including intelligence capabilities underpinned by smart power, 5G and Internet-of-Things technologies, environmental sensors, intelligent control strategies and cyber-physical security. This book includes a special emphasis on health pandemic resiliency that discusses strong engineering control strategies to respond and recover from infectious diseases like COVID-19. Sections cover the foundational aspects of healthy buildings, with a special emphasis on assessing indoor environmental qualities. In addition, it introduces the necessary principles that assist engineers and researchers in understanding and designing buildings that meet health and sustainability goals. - Describes the basic elements of building a digital ecosystem, along with informatics-driven performance architecture - Features various models used in the design of controllers for major systems such as HVAC and lighting - Explores the notion of building bioelectromagnetics to ensure health and safety from human exposure to EM fields