Green Building: Guidebook for Sustainable Architecture
An important consideration for energy-efficient buildings is their primary energy requirements over the entire life cycle. How to determine this? What integrative factors influence the performance of a healthy and sustainable building? This, while it may be important for clients and architects to know, is frequently not very transparent.
At choice moments throughout time, individuals have posed new ideas or theories that have gone against the grain. Someone decided what is known is not enough and asked—sometimes demanded—that the world look at an issue, circumstance, or traditional method in a whole new way. The story of humanity is rife with such turning points. Some have begun as small changes but reverberated, building in strength until their impact on the world became tremendous.
ConnectAbility: 8 Keys to Building Strong Partnerships with Your Colleagues and Your Customers
ConnectAbility-noun: 1. an agile approach to running an organization that takes into account the psychology of human interaction; 2. the only way to do business in today’s economy Drawing from the powerful lessons of emotional awareness and relationship dynamics, ConnectAbility promotes a sophisticated yet simple method for developing superior partnerships guaranteed to create quality results on a consistent basis.
Fraud Risk Assessment: Building a Fraud Audit Program
Praise for Fraud Risk Assessment Building a Fraud Audit Program "This book is a must for every Chief Audit Executive and every internal audit library. The book details how CAEs can incorporate fraud risk assessments into their strategic plans as well as explaining to the staff levels how to audit for fraud in specific high exposure areas such as travel, contracts, and expenditures. It is easy to follow and provides an excellent blueprint."
LEED Practices, Certification, and Accreditation Handbook
Adopted in the United States and a number of other countries, LEED? certification is the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability. Achieving LEED? personal certification or project certification is the best way to demonstrate that the project is truly "green." Written by an architect with over 30 years of international experience, this book provides architects, designers, building owners, and construction engineers with an easy to understand guide to the nuts and bolts of LEED? project and personal certification.
