Kategoria BISAC: Business & Economics >> Facility Management

Updated with chapters on ventilating and exhausting systems and HVAC systems, this third edition of a bestseller covers the range of HVAC systems. The coverages is into components and controls for air, water, heating, ventilating, and air conditioning and readers will learn why one component or system may be chosen over another. New information is included on occupancy comfort, process function, thermodynamics, heat transfer, building envelope conditioned space, heating and cooling load calculations, air duct fundamentals, water pipe fundamentals, variable flow water systems, refrigeration...

This book aims to provide a systemic viewpoint for enterprise to establish the warranty chain management system. This book includes warranty management practice, reverse logistics, product reliability engineering, data statistics and analysis, industry 4.0 and artificial intelligence, circular supply chain and sustainable design, and other basic theories and case descriptions.  The author has many years' experience in academic and industrial management, and provides a management framework that especially takes into account (1) the implementation aspect - promotion of warranty plan and...

This book highlights the vulnerability of healthcare buildings in the context of climate change-triggered extreme weather events (EWEs) and the case for mitigation. With a concise discussion on climate change and its consequences in the form of such events, a cost model and equations that register losses and help quantify them are then presented. The model can be used to estimate the significant potential loss that might occur during an EWE and help healthcare facilities prepare for them.

The book analyses cases of major EWEs in India over the last two decades and collates the data...

Der Einfluss der physischen Umgebung des Homeoffice als Arbeitsort wurde in der Forschung der letzten Jahre meist vernachlässigt, obwohl im Zuge der Corona Pandemie zunehmend Menschen von zu Hause aus arbeiten. Bei der Umsetzung des arbeitskonformen Arbeitsplatzes stellt sich die Frage, wie Organisationen (Arbeitgeber) unter Einbeziehung der individuellen immobilienwirtschaftlichen Gegebenheiten, bei der bedarfsgerechten Arbeitsplatzgestaltung unterstützen können. Basierend auf den bereits vorliegenden Erkenntnissen zur Arbeitsplatzgestaltung untersucht die vorliegende Forschungsarbeit...

The book develops a practical understanding of the fundamental scientific principles and logic underlying the art of turf pitch preparation, measuring, analysing, and interpreting pitch surface behaviour. It’s an attempt to understand how the captains, players, coaches, curators, and groundsmen comprehend and analyse the cricket pitch behaviour (days before and during the matches) and whether the pitch behaviour can be standardised and quantified (through bench marking or forming a data-based management system (DBMS) of a pitch profile, pitch quality standards, a pitch behaviour analysis...