Building construction and materials

This book mainly concentrates on protecting data security and privacy when participants communicate with each other in the Internet of Things (IoT).

We spend most of our lives in buildings and almost every building is unique.

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 newly updated edition of Wiring Regulations in Brief provides a user-friendly guide to the newest amendments to BS 7671 and the IET Wiring Regulations.

Management for the Construction Industry introduces the principles of management and applies them to the construction industry.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021.

As the environmental impact of existing construction and building materials comes under increasing scrutiny, the search for more eco-efficient solutions has intensified.

The aim of the present book is to give a comprehensive up-to-date presentation of some of the classical areas of reliability, based on a more advanced probabilistic framework using the modern theory of stochastic processes.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions (PROHITECH), held in Athens, Greece, on October 25-27, 2021.

This book begins by outlining the common design mistakes with the modern open plan office and the industry focus on cost that has resulted in the ill-fated Workplace Zoo.

This topical and timely book presents and innovative approach to dealing with the complexities of cost planning in PFI.

This proceedings book discusses state-of-the-art research on uncertainty quantification in mechanical engineering, including statistical data concerning the entries and parameters of a system to produce statistical data on the outputs of the system.

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

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th International Conference on Construction in the 21st Century, held in London in 2019.

Advanced Applications in Heat Exchanger Technologies presents the most recent developments in enhancing heat exchanger performance, reliability, and resilience, including the implementation of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Additive Manufacturing.

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

A nation's construction industry is essentially home grown, a derivative of its culture, history, geography and economic circumstances with every building or road a unique product, always a prototype, unlike the honed prototypes set up for efficient production runs of other industries.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

As leaders increasingly understand the importance of good safety practice to support their business objectives, safety and health practitioners develop better tools and solutions.

In the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, this new book provides thought provoking commentary on the nature of the relationship between society, the prevailing economic system and professionalism in the built environment.

Der sechste Teil dieser "Vorlesungen über Massivbau" behandelt die Brücken aus Stahlbeton und Spannbeton, deren Bauarten und Bauweisen in den letzten Jahrzehnten eine ungewöhnliche Entwicklung erfahren haben.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022.

Structural Design for Fire Safety, 2nd edition Andrew H.

This new textbook fills an important gap in the existing literature, in that it prepares construction engineering and built environment students for their first experience of the jobsite.

Water, sanitary and waste services represent a substantial proportion of the cost of construction, averaging 10% of the capital costs of building and with continuing costs in operation and maintenance.

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

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 5th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM), held in Vienna, Austria, on June 21-23, 2023.

Increase Profits by Incorporating Sustainable Practices into Your Building Operations Filled with environmentally friendly methods that reduce the impact of housing on natural areas, Be a Successful Green Builder contains everything needed to get started in the green building business and develop a thriving enterprise.

Principles of Pavement Engineering, Third edition is an essential reference on fundamental principles of pavement engineering, showing how to design, construct, evaluate and maintain pavements of all types.

Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents the selected peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Thermal Engineering and Management Advances (ICTEMA 2020).

This book critically analyzes the hidden political dimensions associated with the planning of Indonesia's new capital.

Law for Project Managers provides an easily understandable and practical guide to the laws of contract, liability, intellectual property and so on, entirely from the perspective of the project manager.

At a time when the technologies and techniques of producing the built environment are undergoing significant change, this book makes central architecture's relationship to industry.

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

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the identification and assessment of structural loads arising from accidental events in offshore structures.

New Generation Whole-Life Costing presents an innovative approach to decision-making and risk management for construction and real estate.

This is the first book on the Which-Is-Better (WIB) Problem.

This is the first post-Egan book to look at benchmarking and KPIs (key performance indicators) in the construction industry.

This book provides the new results in wavelet filter banks based feature extraction, and the classifier in the field of iris image recognition.

Through the emerging lens of social enterprise, this book examines how the global construction industry can engage more effectively with the communities in which it builds, addressing disadvantage and environmental degradation to leave a positive legacy for future generations.

The book reports on the great improvements in the information and knowledge management due to the digitalization of the building sector.

Wenn Sie sich für eine neue Heizungs- und Warmwasseranlage für Ihren Alt- oder Neubau entscheiden müssen, ist die Nutzung der Umweltwärme mithilfe einer Wärmepumpe eine interessante Alternative zum bisher weit verbreiteten Heizen mit fossilen Brennstoffen.

This book highlights some of the most pressing safety, ethical, legal and societal issues related to the diverse contexts in which robotic technologies apply.