Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book addresses the main challenges faced today in implementing the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) concept. The book starts with a chapter that addresses problems related to the energy demand and renewable energy sources available in the built environment, along with the restrictions and opportunities in developing sustainable, efficient and affordable solutions, also gaining aesthetic and architectural acceptance. Advanced solutions to cover the energy needs by using various renewable-based energy mixes are presented in two chapters. These two chapters discuss the problem of conversion efficiency at the level of components and systems, aiming at giving value to the variable renewable energy sources, in producing thermal and electric energy. The concept is discussed further in a chapter on advanced solutions for water re-use and recycling wastes as second raw materials. The need for new strategies and implementation tools, for education and training is addressed in the final chapter as part of the nZEB concept, towards sustainable communities. The sub-chapters of the book were openly presented during the 4th Edition of the Conference for Sustainable Energy, held 6-8 November, 2014, and organized by the R&D Centre Renewable Energy Systems and Recycling at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. This event was developed under the patronage of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), through the Technical Committee Sustainable Energy Systems.

Renewable energy sources --- Civil engineering. --- Renewable energy sources. --- Energy Efficiency. --- Civil Engineering. --- Renewable and Green Energy. --- Building Physics, HVAC. --- Alternate energy sources --- Alternative energy sources --- Energy sources, Renewable --- Sustainable energy sources --- Power resources --- Renewable natural resources --- Agriculture and energy --- Engineering --- Public works --- Energy efficiency. --- Renewable energy resources. --- Building construction. --- Consumption of energy --- Energy efficiency --- Fuel consumption --- Fuel efficiency --- Energy conservation --- Energy policy. --- Energy and state. --- Buildings --- Energy Policy, Economics and Management. --- Renewable Energy. --- Environmental engineering. --- Energy and state --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Environmental engineering (Buildings) --- Environmental engineering --- Architecture --- Sanitary engineering --- Government policy --- Human factors

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This book addresses the main challenges faced today in implementing the Nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) concept. The book starts with a chapter that addresses problems related to the energy demand and renewable energy sources available in the built environment, along with the restrictions and opportunities in developing sustainable, efficient and affordable solutions, also gaining aesthetic and architectural acceptance. Advanced solutions to cover the energy needs by using various renewable-based energy mixes are presented in two chapters. These two chapters discuss the problem of conversion efficiency at the level of components and systems, aiming at giving value to the variable renewable energy sources, in producing thermal and electric energy. The concept is discussed further in a chapter on advanced solutions for water re-use and recycling wastes as second raw materials. The need for new strategies and implementation tools, for education and training is addressed in the final chapter as part of the nZEB concept, towards sustainable communities. The sub-chapters of the book were openly presented during the 4th Edition of the Conference for Sustainable Energy, held 6-8 November, 2014, and organized by the R&D Centre Renewable Energy Systems and Recycling at the Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania. This event was developed under the patronage of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM), through the Technical Committee Sustainable Energy Systems.

Thermodynamics --- Relation between energy and economics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Civil engineering. Building industry --- energiebesparing --- thermodynamica --- duurzame energie --- energie-economie --- hernieuwbare energie --- hergebruik --- energie (technologie) --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- ingenieurswetenschappen

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Revised edition of Hock's award-winning Birth of the Chaordic Age, updated throughout and featuring two new chapters The only first-person account of the rise of VISA, the world's largest business enterprise--in 2004, VISA's products were used by more than a billion people at 20 million locations in more than 150 countries Hock, VISA's founder, details the revolutionary ""chaordic"" organizational philosophy that was instrumental in VISA's successHock skillfully weaves together the story of VISA with his own remarkable life story and elaborates the visionary philosophy that allowed VISA to t

Bank credit cards -- History. --- Businessmen -- United States -- Biography. --- Hock, Dee, 1929-. --- VISA International -- History. --- Businessmen --- Bank credit cards --- Finance --- Business & Economics --- Banking --- History --- History. --- Hock, Dee, --- VISA International --- Charge account bank plans --- Credit cards --- E-books --- Business meetings. --- Management. --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Meetings --- Business meetings --- Management

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This work offers a new theory of what it means to be a legal person and suggests that it is best understood as a cluster property. The author explores the origins of legal personhood, the issues afflicting a traditional understanding of the concept, and the numerous debates surrounding the topic.

Juristic persons. --- Artificial persons --- Conventional persons --- Legal persons --- Persons, Artificial --- Persons, Conventional --- Persons, Juristic --- Persons, Legal --- Persons (Law) --- Personnes morales --- Personnes (Droit) --- Juristic persons