Building construction and materials

The book presents recent research and a collection of case studies and real-world experiences relating to building construction.

This book details some of the major developments in the implementation of compressive sensing in radio applications for electronic defense and warfare communication use.

Fundamentals of Fire Protection for the Safety Professional provides safety managers with a guide for incorporating fire hazard awareness and protection into their safety management plans.

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

This book studies the principles and techniques of construction resource management, finance and costing, measurement and pricing.

Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Second Edition explores the science of enclosure fires and how they cause changes in the environment of a building on fire.

Assessment of professional competence for project managers and the measure of project success is well-trodden ground in the research and professional project management literature.

This book presents state-of-the-art probabilistic methods for the reliability analysis and design of engineering products and processes.

This brief describes a novel approach to overcome the disadvantages of hemp fibres in cementitious composites.

Construction Equipment Management for Engineers, Estimators, and Construction Managers, Second Edition has been extensively rewritten to not only bring it up to date with the state of current practice, but also to serve as a textbook for university courses in construction engineering and management.

Das Buch beantwortet alle wichtigen Fragen zu der Funktion eines Bausachverständigen wie zum Beispiel die Tätigkeit vor Gericht, die Erstellung eines Gutachtens, die Fragen der Vergütung und Haftung.

This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the technology of low-rise construction.

This book contains the invited lectures presented at the 3th International Symposium on Geotechnical Engineering for the Preservation of Monuments and Historic Sites (IS NAPOLI 2022, Naples, Italy, 22-24 June 2022).

No building is properly conserved if it is not structurally sound.

This book sets the stage for understanding how the exponential escalation of digital ubiquity in the contemporary environment is being absorbed, modulated, processed and actively used for enhancing the performance of our built environment.

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.

In Designing the British Post-War Home Fiona Fisher explores the development of modern domestic architecture in Britain through a detailed study of the work of the successful Surrey-based architectural practice of Kenneth Wood.

Germany is seen as a leader in thermal retrofit policy and practice, but how effective is its approach?

This research topic was first established in China by Professor ShengZhao Long in 1981, with direct support from one of the greatest modern Chinese scientists, XueSen Qian.

This book develops several novel foam-filled structures and steel-concrete-steel (SCS) sandwich structures, which provides more alternatives for ensuring the safety of buildings and infrastructures under extreme loading, like impact and blast.

The book presents Russian experience in researching and developing theoretical and experimental problems of heavy concrete elements and constructions with functionally gradient structure, manufactured by using mechanical and electromagnetic vibrations, and broadly utilized in different areas of industry.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Emerging Research in Civil, Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (ERCAM-2019).

This book focuses on the practical aspects of particle size measurement: a major difference with existing books, which have a more theoretical approach.

What is BIM and how does it affect the health and safety professional?

A widely acclaimed trilogy that has become established as the leading work in this field.

The Futureproof City creates adaptability and resiliency in the face of the unknown challenges resulting from technological change, population explosion, global pandemic, and environmental crisis.

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 aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident.

This book provides a step-by-step guidance on how to implement analytical methods in project risk management.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of the intellectual developments in urban conservation.

In recent years, the paradigm of video coding has shifted from that of a frame-based approach to a content-based approach, particularly with the finalization of the ISO multimedia coding standard, MPEG-4.

This book presents the latest research in the fields of reliability theory and its applications, providing a comprehensive overview of reliability engineering and discussing various tools, techniques, strategies and methods within these areas.

Advancement in design and construction to embrace the impact of rapid global urbanization growth in infrastructure development is inevitable.

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Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays.

Do you need a concise, jargon-free and compact guide to the UK building regulations?

Highlights the Economies and Construction Industries of the Asia-Pacific Region Spon's Asia-Pacific Construction Costs Handbook: Fifth Edition provides overarching construction cost data for 16 countries: , Brunei, Cambodia, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Thailan

Bad scheduling can doom a construction project from the start Construction Project Scheduling and Control provides a comprehensive examination of the analytical methods used to devise a reasonable, efficient, and successful schedule for construction projects of all sizes.

This book is the 2nd volume of proceedings of the 1st Smart Nuclear Power Technology Forum and the 8th China Nuclear Power Plant Digital Technology and Application Seminar held in Shenzhen, China in June 2024.

Considering the increased need to test and develop ventilation both for normobaric and hyperbaric use in underwater technology industries (diving equipment, submarines and other underwater facilities), mining, and other relevant industries, this book presents a complete study in the field of normobaric and hyperbaric ventilation.

This book presents papers from the 10th Applied Research Conference in Africa (ARCA), showcasing the latest research on education and inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable communities.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety at Work will help you prepare for the written assessments on the NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety (2019 specification).

Airport development is critical to economic growth and poverty reduction.

Water Regulations in Brief is a unique reference book, providing all the information needed to comply with the regulations, in an easy to use, full colour format.

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives.