Woodhead Publishing Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings (Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering)

Product Description 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. From the Back Cover <i>Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings</i> presents the 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 provides a special emphasis on health pandemic resiliency that discusses strong engineering control strategies to respond and recover from infectious diseases like COVID-19. <i>Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings </i>discusses the foundational aspects of healthy buildings with a special emphasis on assessing indoor environmental qualities, and introduces the necessary principles that assist engineers and researcher in understanding and designing buildings that meet health and sustainability goals according to international standards and rating systems. About the Author Riadh Habash is a special appointment professor at the Faculty of Engineering, University of Ottawa, Canada. He has professional, teaching, and research expertise in multiple areas including energy literacy, mechatronics, bioelectromagnetics, and control systems. Over the years, he has acquired an interest in the scholarship of teaching and learning by initiating activities that provide an engaging environment for inquiring minds through collaboration with industry to develop entrepreneurial projects and educational resources. He is the recipient of the National Wighton Fellowship and several institutional awards. Academically, he has published seven books, five book chapters, and more than 100 research articles.