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Start-Up Creation

The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment

  • 1st Edition - May 13, 2016
  • Newer edition is available
  • Editors: F. Pacheco-Torgal, Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen, Claes G. Granqvist, Volodymyr Ivanov, Arturas Kaklauskas, Stephen Makonin
  • Language: English

Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve t… Read more

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Start-Up Creation: The Smart Eco-efficient Built Environment

 provides a state-of-the-art review on high-technology applications and explains how these can be applied to improve the eco-efficiency of the built environment. Divided into four main parts, the book explains the key factors behind successful startup companies that grow from university research, including the development of a business plan, the importance of intellectual property, necessary entrepreneurial skills, and innovative thinking.

Part Two presents the latest research findings on nano and bio-based technologies and their application and use to the energy efficiency of the built environment. Part Three focuses on the use of genetic algorithms, Big Data, and the Internet of Things applications. Finally, the book ends with an entire section dedicated to App development using selected case studies that illustrate their application and use for monitoring building energy-efficiency.

Key features

  • Presents a definitive guide for startups that arise from college and university research, and how the application of advanced technologies can be applied to the built environment
  • Includes case studies on new advanced technologies and apps development
  • Links startup creation to the eco-efficient built environment through software applications

Readership

Academic researchers and industrial professionals working in the civil engineering and construction industry, as well as architects, designers and IT engineers wishing to keep up-to-date with the latest developments in the design of energy-efficient buildings

Table of contents

1. Introduction to start-up creation for the smart eco-efficient built environment

Part One: Business plans, Start-up Financing, Marketing, Creativity and Intellectual Property Marketing

2. Business plan basics for engineers

3. Lean start-up: Making start-up more successful

4. Start-up financing

5. Marketing for start-ups

6. A Minimalist Model for Measuring Entrepreneurial Creativity in Eco-systems

7. Intellectual property

Part Two: Nano and Biotechnologies for Eco-efficient Buildings

8. Nano-based thermal insulators for building energy efficiency

9. Nano-based thermal storage technologies for building energy efficiency

10. Nano-based chromogenic technologies for building energy efficiency

11. Façade integrated photobioreactors for energy efficiency

12. Biotechnologies for improving indoor air quality

13. Bioplastics for building façades

Part 3: Algorithms, Big Data and IoT for Eco-efficient and Smart Buildings

14. Development of algorithms for building retrofit

15. The use of algorithms for light control

16. Big data and cloud computing for building energy efficiency

17. Intelligent decision support systems and the internet of things for the smart built environment

18. App programming and its use in smart buildings

19. Apps for smart buildings: a case study on building security

Review quotes

"This book is welcome as it fills a gap in the market for eco-efficient scientists who want to understand how their work can make an impact on the industry."—Foreword by Emeritus Professor Derek Clements-Croome from the University of Reading

Product details

About the editors

FP

F. Pacheco-Torgal

Dr. F. Pacheco Torgal is a Principal Investigator at the University of Minho in Portugal. He holds the title of Counsellor at the Portuguese Engineers Association. He is a member of the editorial boards for nine international journals. Over the last 10 years he has participated in the research decision for more than 460 papers and has also acted as a Foreign Expert on the evaluation of 22 PhD thesis. Over the last 10 years he has also been a Member of the Scientific Committees for more than 60 conferences, most of them held in Asian countries. He is also a grant assessor for several scientific institutions in 15 countries, including the UK, US, Netherlands, China, France, Australia, Kazakhstan, Belgium, Spain, Czech Republic, Chile, Saudi Arabia, UA. Emirates, Croatia, Poland, and the EU Commission. In the last 10 years, he reviewed more than 70 research projects.
Affiliations and expertise
C-TAC Research Centre, University of Minho, Guimaraes, Portugal

ER

Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen

Erik Stavnsager Rasmussen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Marketing and Management, International Business and Entrepreneurship, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. His research areas include international new ventures and born global firms.
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Marketing and Management, International Business & Entrepreneurship, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark

CG

Claes G. Granqvist

Claes G. Granqvist is Professor of Solid-State Physics at the Ångström Laboratory, Uppsala University, Sweden. His research is focused on optical and electrical properties of materials, especially thin films for energy efficiency and solar energy utilization. He has written numerous scientific publications, books and proceedings volumes and is a member of several academies and societies.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Professor, Uppsala University, Sweden

VI

Volodymyr Ivanov

Dr. Volodymyr Ivanov has more than 40 years of teaching and research experience on Environmental, Industrial, and Construction Microbiology and Biotechnology in the universities of Europe, Asia, and USA. He has authored 200 papers, patents, book chapters and 8 monographs. His textbook “Environmental Microbiology for Engineers”, Francis & Taylor, 1st (2010) and 2nd (2015) editions, has been adopted for graduate and post-graduate courses in many universities. His research experience includes the supervision and participation in numerous projects on biotechnologies with biofilms and biogranules, microbial transformations of iron, biocementation, bioclogging, bioremediation of soil, and microbiological monitoring of water quality.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

AK

Arturas Kaklauskas

A. Kaklauskas is a professor at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Lithuania; Member of the Research Council of Lithuania; Member of the Science Europe working group on Data Sharing and Supporting Infrastructures; Head of the Department of Construction Management and Property; member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences; editor-in-chief of Journal of Civil Engineering and Management; editor of Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence; and associate editor of Ecological Indicators. He contributed to nine Framework and five Horizon 2020 program projects and participated in over 30 other projects in the EU, US, Africa. and Asia. His publications include nine books and 150 papers. His areas of interest include affective computing; intelligent tutoring systems; affective intelligent tutoring systems; massive open online courses (MOOCS); affective internet of things; smart built environment; intelligent event prediction; opinion mining; intelligent decision support systems; life cycle analyses of built environments; big data and text analytics.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Vilnius, Lithuania

SM

Stephen Makonin

Dr. Stephen Makonin is a postdoctoral fellow in Engineering Science at Simon Fraser University. His research interests include data science, big data, computational sustainability, probabilistic modelling, disaggregation, and nonintrusive load monitoring (NILM). Other interests include open science; the making of hardware and software open source and the creation of public datasets.
Affiliations and expertise
Simon Fraser University, Canada

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