Conservation of buildings and building materials

Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.

Critical Built Heritage Practice and Conservation - Evolving Perspectives supports an alternative point of departure for engaging with the historic built environment, by critically questioning the legitimacy of dominant conservation concepts and methods that are often taken for granted within building conservation, architecture, and adaptive reuse.

Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials - how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.

This book examines in great detail the D-B and IPD methods, while touching on D-B-B and CM project deliveries.

This book examines in great detail the D-B and IPD methods, while touching on D-B-B and CM project deliveries.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VI International Conference on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE 2023), held in Covilha, Portugal, on December 5-7, 2023.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of resilience and adaptation of buildings and cities to climate change, as presented by international researchers at the VI International Conference on Recovery, Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Buildings (CIRMARE 2023), held in Covilha, Portugal, on December 5-7, 2023.

Over the course of their history, the Navajo (Dine) have constructed many types of architecture, but during the 20th century, one building emerged to become a powerful and inspiring symbol of tribal culture.

Contemporary cities are shaped by the unlikely adjacencies of objects that are vastly different in kind, origin, and scale: buildings, infrastructure, and other urban components that over time accumulate into mismatched configurations.

Old Materials, New Climate: Traditional Building Materials in a Changing World is an accessible guidebook to understanding historic materials - how they were traditionally made, how they survived the test of time, and how changes in climate are now impacting materials in new ways.

This book provides the most up-to-date, advanced methods and tools for risk assessment of onshore pipelines.

This book presents papers submitted at 32nd International Conference on Organization and Technology of Maintenance (OTO 2023) held on December 12, 2023, at Osijek, Republic of Croatia.

Der Zentralstaubsauger sorgt für einen sauberen Wohnraum, ohne die Luftqualität zu beeinträchtigen.

Der Zentralstaubsauger sorgt für einen sauberen Wohnraum, ohne die Luftqualität zu beeinträchtigen.

Die Grundlagen der Berechnung von Stahlbetonbauteilen werden in diesem Lehrbuch anhand der mechanischen Beziehungen erläutert.

Thinking Heritage Through China explores major themes in international heritage through the lens of heritage practice in China.

Die Grundlagen der Berechnung von Stahlbetonbauteilen werden in diesem Lehrbuch anhand der mechanischen Beziehungen erläutert.

Für Energiesparmaßnahmen im Wohnung​sbestand gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten.

The book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested in a rich variety of styles, materials, and spatial perceptions.

IIn this book the reader can get an overview of different ventilation systems in simple and understandable terms.

IIn this book the reader can get an overview of different ventilation systems in simple and understandable terms.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), held in Seville from 5-7 October 2022.

This book reports on current challenges in bridge engineering faced by professionals around the globe, giving a special emphasis to recently developed techniques and methods for bridge design, construction and monitoring.

This book offers an international overview of how to apply the Conservation Management Plan (CMP) to the 20th-century architectural heritage.

This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), held in Seville from 5-7 October 2022.

This book introduces the synergy theory model to analyze the calculation results of the soil deformation and the lateral displacement law caused by the longitudinal shield tunneling based on in-depth scientific research and engineering practice on deformation of structures caused by shield tunneling.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of cementitious composites.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

The Object of Conservation examines how historic buildings, monuments and artefacts are cared for as valued embodiments of the past.

A journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history  “[A] fascinating chronicle.

Amongst the Ruins explores the loss of ancient civilizations, the collapse of ruling elites, and the disappearance of more recent communities and their local traditions.

This book provides the opportunity to explore the variety of meanings, undertones and contextual connotations that currently pertain to the expressions of "e;virtual (or digital) restoration"e; and "e;reconstruction"e;.

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his own time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century.

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his own time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century.

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations.

This book examines the unique socialist-modernist architecture built in the twentieth century in Central and Eastern Europe as a source of heritage and of existing and potential value for the present and future generations.

Die „Sicherheitsfibel“ wird dem Fachmann für Sicherheitstechnik, dem interessierten Laien und den Beratern in Versicherungen, kriminalpolizeilichen Präventiveinrichtungen, sowie Herstellern in der Planung künftiger Sicherheitsprodukte einen fundierten Überblick über wirkungsvolle und sinnvolle Sicherungsmaßnahmen im privaten und gewerblichen Umfeld geben.

Structural Health Monitoring & Damage Detection, Volume 7: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the seventh volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book focuses on holistic approaches to sustainability in all sectors of building, infrastructure, and energy to achieve a best-balanced global energy, building, infrastructure, transportation, and water technology (EBITW) system using a series of innovative research and implementation solutions.

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The book presents the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 249-ISC.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Damage Assessment of Structures DAMAS 2019, 9-10 July 2019, Porto, Portugal.

This book provides detailed information on how to set up Deep Energy Retrofits (DERs) in public buildings, and shares in-depth insights into the current status of the major technologies, strategies and practical best practice examples of how to cost-effectively combine them.

Waste and Supplementary Cementitious Materials in Concrete: Characterisation, Properties and Applications provides a state-of-the-art review of the effective and efficient use of these materials in construction.

This work is an overview of the state of art on Ageing of Materials and structures in the world.

This self-contained book focuses on the safety assessment of existing structures subjected to multi-hazard scenarios through advanced numerical methods.

This book presents the results of a novel investigation into building deterioration and defects in Malaysia's public schools.

This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field.