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An interdisciplinary approach towards academic education on sustainable building design /

"The built environment is witnessing a worldwide concern followed by intensive consideration of its environmental impacts on the one hand and influence on public health and wellbeing on the other. Respecting both priorities mentioned above, the trends in current design tend to be in line with m...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Skalicky Klemenčič, Vanja (Editor ), Leskovar, Vesna Žegarac (Editor ), Žigart, Maja (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2020]
Colección:Environmental science, engineering and technology series.
Education in a competitive and globalizing world series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"The built environment is witnessing a worldwide concern followed by intensive consideration of its environmental impacts on the one hand and influence on public health and wellbeing on the other. Respecting both priorities mentioned above, the trends in current design tend to be in line with multiple dimensions of sustainability. Next to its occurrence in scientific research and practice, the topic of sustainable design is ever more emerging within the courses at universities, whereby the educational approaches can be beneficial if interrelated to different scientific or expert disciplines. As universities are recognized as complex organizations inevitably evolving over a long period of time period and responding to changes in society and environment, attempts to improve the efficiency of academic teaching have been intensively introduced also in the study programs of the University of Maribor, Faculty of Civil Engineering, Transportation Engineering and Architecture (UM FGPA) through implementation of various activities related to development of innovative approaches towards education on sustainable design of built environment. The publication presents the interdisciplinary approach to the academic education on sustainable building design through integration of different activities. In addition to basic educational courses, the transfer of latest research findings, implementation of practical student workshops, development projects and various activities aiming at integration of different knowledge transfers makes the level of academic teaching more active and efficient"--
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 188 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1536173037
9781536173031