This book deals with human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing
sustainability in the built environment. It reports on advanced engineering methods for
sustainable infrastructure design as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the
social environmental and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a
range of topics including the use of recycled materials in architecture ergonomics in
buildings and public design sustainable design for smart cities design for the aging
population industrial design human scale in architecture and many more. Based on the AHFE
2017 International Conference on Human Factors Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure
held on July 17-21 2017 in Los Angeles California USA this book by showing different
perspectives on sustainability and ergonomics represents a useful source of information for
designers in general urban engineers architects infrastructure professionals practitioners
public infrastructure owners policy makers government engineers and planners as well as
operations managers and academics active in applied research.
