Building construction and materials

Winner of the 2016 Antoinette Forrester Downing Award presented by the Society of Architectural Historians.

Building Services Engineering Spreadsheets is a versatile, user friendly tool for design calculations.

Electronic Access Control introduces the fundamentals of electronic access control through clear, well-illustrated explanations.

Complete Any Construction Job On Time, within Budget, and According to SpecificationsTurn to the updated Second Edition of Construction Superintendent's Operations Manual for step-by-step guidance on managing every aspect of complex construction jobs.

Students studying construction management and related subjects need to have a broad understanding of the major aspects of controlling the building processes.

This book contains auxiliary calculation tools to facilitate the safety assessment of reinforced concrete sections.

This book details the latest methods available for the in-service assessment of buildings and other structures.

This book aims to cast light on all aspects of tunnel fires, based on experimental activities and theoretical and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analyses.

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.

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende, praxisbezogene und auf dem neuesten Wissensstand basierende Beschreibung der für die Sanierung von Entsorgungskanälen eingesetzten Werkstoffe und Verfahren.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

The book provides a derivation of the models used for calculating the risk and hazard of central oxygen toxicity pertaining to diving-based studies consistent with the research conducted earlier by the Royal Navy and the US Navy.

One of the most important aspects for a successful police operation is the ability for the police to obtain timely, reliable and actionable intelligence related to the investigation or incident at hand.

This book describes current best practice in managing construction.

This book presents the latest research advances and findings in the field of smart/multifunctional concretes, focusing on the principles, design and fabrication, test and characterization, performance and mechanism, and their applications in infrastructures.

This book outlines a cutting-edge form of program delivery which the authors term SIP-Form or Strategic Integrated Program delivery.

This book highlights recent findings in civil and environmental engineering and urban planning, and provides an overview of the state of the art in these fields, mainly in Russia and Eastern Europe.

This book presents the proceedings of SICC 2017, a conference devoted to promoting the dissemination of the different methodologies, techniques, theories, strategies, technologies and best practices on the prevention and mitigation of CBRNE risks.

This book introduces fundamental concepts of cyber resilience, drawing expertise from academia, industry, and government.

Dieses Fachbuch aus der Reihe Detailwissen Bauphysik beschäftigt sich mit den thermischen und hygrischen Besonderheiten bei Bauteilanschlüssen und geht im Besonderen Fragestellungen der Modellbildung bei Wärmebrückenberechnungen nach.

The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply.

Energy - its source, security, price, and the efficiency of its use, are increasingly important issues for a diverse range of people.

First published in 1984.

"e;Space Sleuths of the Cold War"e; relates for the first time the inside story of the amateur spies who monitored the Soviet space program during the Cold War.

This book explains over 3,000 terms (over 200,000 words) and contains over 200 professionally drawn line illustrations.

The textbook at hand offers an introduction to Finite Element Methods from an engineering point of view comprising the basic principles of virtual work, derivations of displacement-based, mixed and hybrid element formulations for 1-D and 2-D membrane as well as bending structures and heat conduction.

Tubular Structures XV contains the latest scientific and engineering developments in the field of tubular structures, as presented at the 15th International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS15, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 27-29 May 2015).

Open Channel Hydraulics is written for undergraduate and graduate civil engineering students, and practicing engineers.

Photovoltaic systems (PVs) produce electricity directly from solar radiation and are becoming more widespread as their advantages become apparent.

This book presents the research results of advanced vibration control technology, based on two types of typical equipment in industrial engineering of China: power equipment and vibration-sensitive equipment.

Over the past 10-15 years a renaissance in wood architecture has occurred with the development of new wood building systems and design strategies, elevating wood from a predominantly single-family residential idiom to a rival of concrete and steel construction for a variety of building types, including high rises.

This book traces the policy history of urban conservation and its relationship to the town planning process and both are set in their political context.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Lean Construction Conference (ILCC 2022) with adoption and implementation cases of lean concepts across Indian construction projects.

LEED v4 Practices, Certification, and Accreditation Handbook, Second Edition, provides users with a practical user-friendly roadmap that presents the guidelines for selecting the LEED v4 rating system to better fit a particular project (e.

This highly illustrated text brings together two areas which have both grown in popularity in recent years: gridshells and bamboo.

Weather Architecture further extends Jonathan Hill's investigation of authorship by recognising the creativity of the weather.

This very practical guide describes the whole process of contracting for goods and services, from selecting tenderers to placing a contract.

The purpose of the China Energy Technology Program (CETP) has been to take a holistic view of electricity generation in China with special emphasis on the economic and environmental impact of technology.

The book presents recent research and practical insights relating to building pathology.

This book examines key themes for the management of historic urban centres within a representative sample of centres in different European countries.

This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This book provides insights to the lay person as well as the experts who are actively enabling these changes in the construction industry.

This book provides a brief and general introduction to cybersecurity and cyber-risk assessment.

From the standpoint of practising engineers, architects and contractors, the law of contract is the most important one and, from preparation of technical documents to its execution and in the determination of disputes, the engineer or architect must have relevant knowledge.

This volume contains the proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Durability of Building Sealants, held under the joint auspices of the British Building Research Establishment Ltd (BRE) and the International Union of Testing and Research Laboratories for Buildings and Structures (RILEM) Technical Committee 139-DBS.

The International Association of Protective Structures (IAPS) was launched on 1 October 2010 in Manchester, UK during the first International Conference of Protective Structures.