Building construction and materials

This book summarizes science and technology of a new generation of high-energy andinsensitive explosives.

This book provides an outline of the Ship-to-Ship transfer process, and how ship's masters and officers can conduct this inherently dangerous activity safely.

This volume contains 28 papers by renowned international experts on the latest advances in structural reliability methods and applications, engineering risk analysis and decision making, new optimization techniques and various applications in civil engineering.

This book comprises select papers presented at the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2018).

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

Safety or protective grounding is of vital importance for the protection of individuals from electric shock and structures and industrial concerns from potentially damaging lightning and electrostatic discharges.

This Handbook seeks to examine and advance current understanding of the confluence of construction health, safety and well-being and the broad range of Industry 4.

The Joint Contracts Tribunal issued a new Design and Build Form in 2005, a successor to the JCT Standard Form of Building Contract with Contractor s Design.

International Health and Safety at Work has been specially written in simple English for the thousands of students who complete the NEBOSH International General Certificate in Health and Safety each year.

'Machine Woodworking' provides students with all the basic information needed to reach NVQ level II in wood machining.

Like the first edition, the central question this book addresses is how virtual reality can be used in the design, production and management of the built environment.

Environmental Resources provides a comprehensive text for undergraduate resource management courses.

This textbook presents the basic methods, numerical schemes, and algorithms of computational fluid dynamics (CFD).

Rapid advances in analytical methods and computing enable engineers to apply stability/stiffness methods to increasingly complex real-life cases.

17th WCEAM Proceedings provides a record of some of the intellectual discussions (including keynote addresses, research paper presentations, panel debates and practical workshops) that took place among the attendees and participants of the 17th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), held from 18 - 20 October 2023 at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel and Towers, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

This book provides an analysis of the origin and effect of human errors in engineering.

This is the first book to conceptualise and develop a roadmap for the adoption of cyber-physical systems (CPS) for facilities management (FM) in developing countries.

This book presents select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advances in Civil Engineering (ICACE 2020), covering basic civil engineering branches.

This book highlights aesthetics as pertaining to the structural component in architectural design.

This book presents a number of studies on the molecular dynamics of cement-based materials.

A Comprehensive Guide to Facility Piping SystemsFully up-to-date with the latest codes and standards, this practical resource contains everything you need to plan, select, design, specify, and test piping systems for industry, commercial, and institutional applications.

Concise review of the rules and regulations for employing labour directly, labour-only subcontractors or supply and fix-sub-contractors.

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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

This book contains diverse topics relevant to earthquake engineering and technology.

Construction is the means by which designing architects and engineers transforma design idea into built reality.

This book highlights the charring rate performance of LVL made from tropical hardwood according to EN 13381-7 and BS 476 standards.

This book discusses the impact of long-period ground motions on structural design using the situation in Bucharest, the capital city of Romania, as a case study.

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Data Science in Engineering, Volume 9:  Proceedings of the 40th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2022, the nineth volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Architecture's Disability Problem explores the intersection of architecture and disability in the United States from the perspective of professional practice.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

A comprehensive reference of materials for interior designers and architects Choosing the right material for the right purpose is a critical and often overlooked aspect in the larger context of designing buildings and interior spaces.

This book is intended to be used as a textbook and research reference for the field of nuclear nonproliferation.

A Complete Guide to Building and Maintaining Green RoofsWritten by an industry expert in green roof design and installation, this GreenSource book presents all of the information you need to skillfully design, construct, and maintain green roofs.

Readers of this book will be shown how, with the adoption of ubiquituous sensing, extensive data-gathering and forecasting, and building-embedded advanced actuation, intelligent building systems with the ability to respond to occupant preferences in a safe and energy-efficient manner are becoming a reality.

Building from Tradition examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary construction.

This book presents the latest trends in attacks and protection methods of Critical Infrastructures.

Brandschutz ist nicht nur gefordert und somit wichtig, nein – Brandschutz kann auch richtig interessant sein und Spaß machen!

Mechanics of Functionally Graded Material Structures is an authoritative and fresh look at various functionally graded materials, customizing them with various structures.

This short book presents a framework for assessing the reliability and availability of visual quality control systems, placing particular emphasis on wavelet-based analysis.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

This book offers a cross disciplinary treatment of the rapidly growing field of integrated approaches in risk assessment in mountainous areas.

This book provides an overall understanding of construction contracts, explaining a range of topics with in-depth examples, allowing engineers, site managers, architects, contractors, and other construction professionals in search of information on construction contracts to find it in one place.

This book presents the proceedings of the fib Symposium "e;Building for the future: Durable, Sustainable, Resilient"e;, held in Istanbul, Turkey, on 5-7 June 2023.

Zwar fällt die Zahl aller Arbeitsunfälle in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland kontinuierlich.

Este trabajo resume la experiencia y reflexión de muchos años.

Originally published in 1958, A Guide to Western Architecture charts the origins of the system of architectural design that was perfected in Greece, follows its development under the Roman Empire and describes the achievements of the Byzantine architects.