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  • Higher Education Institutions and Digital Transformation

    Building University-Enterprise Collaborative Relationships

    by Marcin Lis ...
    Series series Routledge Open Business and Economics
    The growing complexity, fluidity and instability of the environment as well as changing needs are challenges that both enterprises and higher education institutions must face. Higher education institutions understand that their key product, i.e. knowledge, is a value that can and should be offered to enterprises in a desirable form as a key to innovation and development as well as the basis of the ... Read more

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  • Bio-based Building Skin

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides a compendium of material properties, demonstrates several successful examples of bio-based materials’ application in building facades, and offers ideas for new designs and novel solutions. It features a state-of-the-art review, addresses the latest trends in material selection, assembling systems, and innovative functions of facades in detail. Selected case studies on buildings ... Read more

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  • Advances in Passive Cooling

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    Series series BEST (Buildings Energy and Solar Technology)
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Project Management

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Project Management presents and discusses leading ideas in the management of projects. Positioning project management as a domain much broader and more strategic than simply 'execution management', this Handbook draws on the insights of over 40 scholars to chart the development of the subject over the last 50 years or more as an area of increasing practical and academic ... Read more

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  • Routledge Handbook of Urban Forestry

    Series series Routledge Environment and Sustainability Handbooks
    More than half the world's population now lives in cities. Creating sustainable, healthy and aesthetic urban environments is therefore a major policy goal and research agenda. This comprehensive handbook provides a global overview of the state of the art and science of urban forestry.It describes the multiple roles and benefits of urban green areas in general and the specific role of trees, ... Read more

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  • Culture in International Construction

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    Series series Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering
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