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1. High-Performance Buildings: A Guide for Owners and Managers

   By Anthony Robinson

   This book provides a blueprint for action for readers making decisions about how to improve the energy efficiency and performance of new or existing buildings. Suitable for both seasoned veterans and new managers, it takes an objective and orderly approach to what is often a complex, costly, and...

   July 2011 | 978-1-4398519-9-9 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)

2. Urban Transformation in East Asia

   By Hyun Bang Shin

   This book explores urban transformation in East Asia, focusing in particular on the rapid transformation of old and dilapidated neighbourhoods in East Asian cities. Drawing on detailed empirical fieldwork conducted in Seoul and Beijing, including case studies of redevelopment neighbourhoods and...

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-46945-6 | Hardback (Routledge)

3. Energy Management in Buildings: a Guide

   By Douglas Harris

   June 2011 | 978-0-415-56649-0 | Paperback (Spon Press)

4. Production and Operations Management

   Edited by Vijay Kumar Khurana

   As an authoritative presentation of activities, functions, and concepts of production and operations management activities, this reference work begins with the nature and scope of production management, guiding step-by-step through production activities, such as process and service design,...

   February 2011 | 978-1-4200704-8-4 | Hardback (CRC Press)

5. Plant Engineers and Managers Guide to Energy Conservation, Tenth Edition

   By Albert Thumann, Scott C. Dunning

   Completely revised and updated, this ninth edition of a bestseller covers both management and technical strategies which can be used to slash energy costs by as much as 40% in industrial facilities. It covers cogeneration, gas distributed generation technologies, steam system optimization,...

   February 2011 | 978-1-4398560-6-2 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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   Spend Analysis and Specification Development Using Failure Interpretation

   By Michael D. Holloway

   A guide to reducing operating costs, this book presents a method for lowering operational costs and increasing productivity by establishing a performance based procurement specification on the components, devices, and items that contribute most to operational, downtime, and labor repair/...

   February 2011 | 978-1-4398510-7-4 | Hardback (CRC Press)
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   Property Asset Management, 3rd Edition

   By Douglas Scarrett

   Property asset management involves both the day to day oversight of rental properties as well as an ability to maximise the potential of the portfolio through forward thinking and practical planning. To be successful in property management, the individuals must be flexible and proactive while...

   November 2010 | 978-0-415-55611-8 | Paperback (Routledge)
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   Management & Strategies for Energy Professionals Reference Library CD

   By Christopher Russell, John M. Studebaker, Stephen A. Roosa, Arun G. Jhaveri, John Eggink

   August 2010 | 978-1-4398535-6-6 | CD-ROM (Fairmont Press)

9. Lighting Efficiency Technology & Applications

   By Albert Thumann, Eric Woodroof

   This practical handbook highlights the latest trends in applied lighting technologies capable of providing high energy efficiency performance in buildings and industrial facilities.  It provides facts on the latest advances in lamp, ballast, luminaire and controls technologies, as well as gain...

   August 2010 | 978-1-4200611-0-9 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)
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    Effective Building Maintenance: Protection of Capital Assets

    By Herb Stanford

    This text addresses in great detail the requirements for designing, implementing, and managing programs and procedures for the maintenance of major building elements from the foundation to the roof, including interior and exterior support systems and sitework elements. Topics include facilities as...

    August 2010 | 978-1-4398455-3-0 | Hardback (Fairmont Press)