In an era defined by unprecedented environmental challenges, social inequalities, and corporate responsibility, the concept of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) has emerged as a transformative force. It is a set of practices used to evaluate the operational performance of a company or industry sector as it relates to social and environmental impact.

Manufacturing plays a key role in many areas of human living, and it is both part of the problem and of the solution. As manufacturing organizations grapple with the imperative to foster sustainability, ESG principles have evolved into a guiding framework. At the heart of this evolution lies technology, acting as a catalyst for ESG innovation and driving systemic change across manufacturing. This book seeks to explore the intersection of ESG and manufacturing technology.

The environmental criterion looks at whether a company pollutes or implements sustainable practices. The social criterion considers how the company works with and impacts its employees, customers, suppliers and the community as a whole. Finally, the governance criterion looks at the company's leadership, its internal controls and audits, board governance oversight and executive pay.

This ground-breaking collection will be a comprehensive educational tool, promoting awareness, guiding investment strategies, helping to manage risks, facilitating stakeholder engagement, ensuring regulatory compliance, measuring impacts, driving innovation, and promoting ethical leadership - all of which are essential for addressing pressing global challenges and building a more sustainable future.

ESG Innovation for Sustainable Manufacturing Technology: Applications, designs and standards offers insights and diverse perspectives on this cross-disciplinary topic for an audience of researchers, advanced students and professionals in sustainable manufacturing.

Good building performance is contingent on complex, interacting factors. The application of performance simulation tools allows practitioners to adopt a virtual prototype and test approach in selecting design solutions that balance performance and cost.

The aim of this book is to provide guidance on approaches to the modelling and simulation of energy systems in the built environment at various scales and complexities to address the myriad challenges of the clean energy transition. The intention is to equip the reader with the understanding required to compose high integrity models, commission realistic simulations, and interpret predictions to assess life cycle performance and ensure operational resilience.

Initial chapters introduce the impressive capabilities of building energy systems simulation and the new features that are likely to be added in future. The authors then describe the sustainable energy challenge and how modelling and simulation can be used to scrutinise proposals in a cost-effectively manner. The remainder of the book then covers different technology options including electrification of heating, net zero energy housing, community energy systems, active demand management, and urban energy action planning. In each case the nature of the problem is described, the construction of a high-fidelity computer model elaborated, and principal simulation outcomes demonstrated.

Some of the problem domains addressed in the book are accompanied by a high-fidelity digital model available externally. These models are compatible with the ESP-r performance simulation program, which is freely available under an open-source licence.

Applied Building Performance Simulation provides a thorough grounding and practical guidance in the role of software simulation tools for building performance, for an audience of researchers, industry professionals, advanced students, and policy makers, regulators and standards bodies operating in the field.