Architectural Technology - Research & Practice

This seminal text on applied research in architectural technology will enlighten, inform and challenge readers.

Its aim is to promote research in architectural technology and it brings together a number of different themes with the thread as the importance of research in developing the discipline and the profession, both via research-led practice and applied academic research. The book will make an important contribution to the architectural technology knowledge domain, and help to underpin the architectural technology profession.

Contributors address how political, economic, social, environmental and technological issues influence architectural technology - acting as drivers for the creation of a better knowledge base and higher skills required to practise in a global economy. The focus throughout is on creating and realising sustainable buildings that are constructed economically and function effectively and efficiently within their service life cycle.

Stephen Emmitt is Professor of Architectural Technology at Loughborough University, UK and Visiting Professor of Innovation Sciences of Holmstad University, Sweden and member of CIAT's Research Group.