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A Complete Reference on Construction Waste RecyclingThis GreenSource guide offers comprehensive information on how to recycle as much as 95 percent of new construction and demolition waste, reuse existing materials, and comply with U.

This is the first of two volumes containing the proceedings of the 1996 international conference: 'The steel industry in the new millennium: innovation, strategy and markets'.

This book on biomimicry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainability assessment tool.

This textbook responds to the increasing demand for practical, industry aligned, ethical practices in quantity surveying, construction management and related AEC professions.

Risk Pricing Strategies for Public-Private Partnership Projects Innovation in the Built Environment The complexity of public private partnership (PPP) project procurement requires an effective process for pricing, managing and appropriate allocation of risks.

This book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography - in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies.

Effective risk and opportunity management is key to the successful delivery of any major engineering and construction project.

Securing the Outdoor Construction Site: Strategy, Prevention, and Mitigation offers a holistic view of security planning for vulnerable capital projects, providing the strategic and tactical plans needed to protect large areas with a minimum investment in personnel and equipment.

This is a book about how to manage the processes involved in a construction project towards a sustainable and regenerative endproduct.

It is commonly quoted that the majority of change initiatives fail and equally common is the reasoning that failure is due to a lack of adequate planning and robust processes to deliver change to the organisation.

The Client Role in Successful Construction Projects is a practical guide for clients on how to initiate, procure and manage construction projects and developments.

Seismic Vulnerability Assessment of Civil Engineering Structures at Multiple Scales: From Single Buildings to Large-Scale Assessment provides an integrated, multiscale platform for fundamental and applied studies on the seismic vulnerability assessment of civil engineering structures, including buildings with different materials and building typologies.

This is a comprehensive book on infrastructure development and construction management.

This book examines complex challenges in managing major strategic economic and social infrastructure projects.

Seismic Evaluation, Damage, and Mitigation in Structures covers recent developments in the field of seismic performance assessment of structures.

This book examines the industrial ecology of 200 years of ironmaking with renewal energy resources in northwestern Connecticut.

Since 1994, the European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (www.

This guide shows design practices and other construction professionals how to manage knowledge successfully.

This book collates the main research developments around Lean Construction over the past 25 years with contributions from many seminal authors in the field.

By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America.

This book documents the experiences, development, and prospects of the construction industry in numerous developing countries.

This book provides in-depth results and case studies in innovation from actual work undertaken in collaboration with industry partners in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC).

Business Principles for Landscape Contracting, fully revised and updated in its third edition, is an introduction to the application of business principles of financial management involved in setting up your own landscape contracting business and beginning your professional career.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry.

The construction industry is an information-intensive sector and low levels of productivity are often blamed on inadequate integration of information.

Questions of insurance arise in virtually all constructions cases.

Das Buch legt die Grundlagen des Holzbaus detailliert dar und vermittelt die wesentlichen Kenntnisse und Kompetenzen, die für den Entwurf, die Bemessung und die Konstruktion einfacher Holztragwerke für typische Bauwerke des Hochbaus erforderlich sind.

Practice management for Land, Construction and Property Professionals presents the expert views and practical experience of researchers and practitioners concerned with the particular challenges and skills required to manage professional service organizations in the constuction and property industries.

Corrosion of Reinforced Concrete Structures: Mechanism, Monitoring and Control presents research, theory and practice on the control of corrosion in reinforced concrete structures.

Der Wettbewerb Häuser des Jahres wird seit 2011 vom Deutschen Architekturmuseum und Callwey ausgelobt.

The effective management of facilities can significantly improve business productivity.

Construction has been an industry characterised by disputes, fierce competitiveness and fragmentation - all major obstacles to development.

In Understanding and Negotiating EPC Contracts, Volume 1, Howard M.

Labour in Transition (1992) examines the massive transformations undertaken by state socialist regimes at the end of the 1980s.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

Ideal for removing large amounts of liquids from wells, Electrical Submersible Pumps (ESP) are perhaps the most versatile and profitable pieces of equipment in a petroleum company's arsenal.

Low construction labour productivity and the inadequate welfare of construction workers are consistent challenges in developing countries.

The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2007 repeal the CDM Regulations 1994 and the Construction (Health, Safety and Welfare) Regulations 1996; containing all the legal duties regarding the design and management of a construction project and the safe operating standards expected on a construction site.

Steel is the foundational material of modern civilization and constitutes the core of industry, and yet, it is overproduced across the world.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry.

The chance of being claimed against is now a major risk factor for every building designer, engineer, quantity surveyor and project manager.

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.

Construction Economics provides students with the principles underlying the relationship between economic theory and the construction industry.

"e;Practical Pattern Making"e; by Paul N.

There are unique greening solutions and practices that help create a lifestyle shift, improving the health of living and working spaces for its occupants from a personal, business, environmental, and profitable perspective.

By examining environmental change through the lens of conflicting social agendas, Andrew Hurley uncovers the historical roots of environmental inequality in contemporary urban America.

Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition.

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country, and was the first of its kind.

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide.