Intelligent Building Technology

Starting your Research

Starting your Research

Encyclopedias, handbooks and subject specific dictionaries will help provide useful background information, as well as terms to use when searching the databases. For example:

Ehrlich, C. (Ed.). (2007). Intelligent building dictionary: Terminology for smart, integrated, green building design, construction, and management. San Francisco, Calif: Hands-on-Guide.	Fisk, E. R., & Rapp, R. R. (2007). Introduction to engineering construction inspection. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
Jayamaha, L. (2007). Energy-efficient building systems: green strategies for operations and maintenance. New York: McGraw-Hill.	Lerum, V. (2008). High-performance building. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

A GOOGLE search can also help find background information and suggestions for more keywords.

Keywords & OPAC

Keywords & OPAC

Use OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue) to find books, journal titles and audio-visual materials in the Library. When searching for information, you need to use keywords. See below for some suggestions.

Buildings – Energy conservation	Buildings - Performance	Green buildings
Intelligent buildings	Intelligent buildings – Singapore	Intelligent control systems
Renewable energy sources	Sustainable architecture	Sustainable buildings

Search OPAC now

Finding Articles Online

Finding Articles Online

The articles inside magazines, journals & periodicals are very useful sources of information. Articles are different from books because:

• they are much more up-to-date
• they are shorter (less to read!)
• they concentrate on topics or specific aspects of topics
• there are many articles being published all the time so you have more choice.

The library catalogue, OPAC, does NOT tell you what articles the Library has, only which journals or periodicals, so the easiest way to find articles is to use the online databases.

• Academic Search Premier

• Art Abstracts

• Business Source Premier

• Computer Source

• GreenFILE

• ProQuest Science Journals

Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles are also very useful sources of information, and can be found in the LexisNexis Academic and the Factiva databases.

• Factiva (Dow Jones)

• LexisNexis Academic

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Click here for a list of all the databases subscribed to by TP Library.

Recommended Websites

Recommended Websites

AutomatedBuildings.com - online magazine and web resource providing articles, news, interviews, blogs and more on the rapidly evolving industry that automates large buildings. Enter the keywords "trends asia" in the search option to find trends in intelligent buildings in the Asia Pacific region.

GreenBuilding.com - learn more about the history of green building, and find links to other resources on the topic.

Do tell us if you know of more websites that you would like to see listed here!

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