Download or read book Sustainability and Health in Intelligent Buildings written by Riadh Habash and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2022-04-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. - Describes the basic elements of building a digital ecosystem, along with informatics-driven performance architecture - Features various models used in the design of controllers for major systems such as HVAC and lighting - Explores the notion of building bioelectromagnetics to ensure health and safety from human exposure to EM fields