Building construction and materials

The book demonstrates how new houses can be designed to be more sustainable and ergonomic.

Reflecting the challenges and opportunities of achieving improvement in healthcare systems, the contributions of this innovative new text lend depth and nuance to an increasing area of academic debate.

This book presents materials on the implementation of modern technologies for aircraft information support and ground-based radio equipment for flights in the Russian Federation, especially in the Arctic and far Eastern regions, as well as new methods for monitoring the flight of civil aviation aircraft based on the use of local control and correction stations and optical systems that fully meet the requirements of international and domestic organizations for the reliability and integrity of transmitted information.

A comphensive guide to information sources relevant to the building industry and legislation affecting it.

This book deals with sound craftsmanship utilising correct tools and materials.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to implementing a company-wide management system (CWMS), utilising up-to-date methodologies of lean-six sigma in order to achieve high levels of business excellence.

This book helps the reader save a great deal of money by demonstrating how to manage the project and act as one's own contractor.

Structural health monitoring (SHM) has emerged as a prominent research area in recent years owing to increasing concerns about structural safety, and the need to monitor and extend the lives of existing structures.

"e;Society of Architectural Historians Spiro Kostof Book Award, Honorable Mention, 2018"e;The conservation of old Sanaa is a major cultural heritage initiative that began in the 1980's under the auspices of UNESCO; it continues today, led by local agencies and actors.

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.

Thousands of project management-related books have been written.

This book presents operational modal analysis (OMA), employing a coherent and comprehensive Bayesian framework for modal identification and covering stochastic modeling, theoretical formulations, computational algorithms, and practical applications.

This book presents intuitive explanations of the principles and applications of power system resiliency, as well as a number of straightforward and practical methods for the impact analysis of risk events on power system operations.

This book reports on the state of the art in physical ergonomics and addresses the design of products, processes, services, and work systems to ensure they are productive, safe, and enjoyable for people to use.

This is the proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Graphic Design in Architecture, EGA 2016, held in Alcala de Henares, Spain, in June 2016.

This book collects the scientific proceedings presented during the "e;2024 The 4th International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference"e; held in Seoul, South Korea, in March 2024 with the aim of showing the latest advancements in theoretical and applied research in the architecture, engineering, and construction sector (AEC).

Bluetooth technology has enjoyed tremendous success, and it's now employed in billions of devices for short-range wireless data and real-time audio or video transfer.

This book discusses the application of metaheuristic algorithms in a number of important optimization problems in civil engineering.

Vortex Ventilation: Shaped Units of Energy-Saving Ventilation Systems presents innovative methods for optimizing ventilation systems through vortex zone and computational fluid dynamics analysis.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of operational modal analysis and structural health monitoring, as presented at the 10th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC), held in Naples, Italy on May 22-24, 2024.

Drawing on empirical work and secondary analysis from the UK and Finnish construction industries, this book contributes a deep-rooted analysis of construction industry harms that originate from corporate-industrialstate processes.

The fundamental purpose of this handbook is to raise awareness about environmental impacts of fire and fire suppression, primarily within the fire engineering and firefighting communities, but also within the environmental engineering and planning disciplines.

International Series of Monographs in Heating, Ventilation, and Refrigeration, Volume 4: The Control of Indoor Climate focuses on the many problems in heating, cooling, and ventilation.

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

Flame Retardant Polymer Nanocomposites takes a comprehensive look at polymer nanocomposites for flame retardancy applications and includes nanocomposite fundamentals (theory, design, synthesis, characterization) as well as polymer flammability fundamentals with emphasis on how nanocomposites affect flammability.

This book presents key research findings on the combination of different technologies that promise to be particularly sustainable and broadly impactful in their application.

As part of the PocketArchitecture Series, this volume focuses on inclusive design and its allied fields-ergonomics, accessibility, and participatory design.

Updated in line with the 18th edition of the wiring regulations.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the second volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The carbon emissions generated by concrete and steel construction are well-known.

This book explains and illustrates the rules that are given in the Eurocodes for designing steel structures subjected to fire.

This book has been developed to provide significant information about the usage and application of the Total Quality Management (TQM) concept in a construction project environment.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the classification, design, and certification of offshore access gangway systems.

Modern society depends heavily upon a host of systems of varying complexity to perform the services required.

Sustainability in Architecture and Urban Design will help you understand the nature of the sustainability problem and show you how to implement your design for a sustainable future.

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.

Students setting out for a career in plumbing need a clear, concise and comprehensive textbook to help them study for their Technical Certificate and Level 2 NVQ - and this book meets all those needs.

This volume presents selected contributions from the "e;Advanced Research Workshop on Explosives Detection"e; hosted by the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence, Italy in 2018.

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in engineered timber construction.

Loss Control Auditing: A Guide for Conducting Fire, Safety, and Security Audits is a one-stop resource for both developing and executing a loss control audit program.

While most construction management books are project based, this book looks at management principles and techniques applied to the day-to-day problems facing a business in the construction industry.

The Russian Invasion of Ukraine and Implications for the Central Region addresses national security threats and strategic opportunities for the United States and its allies in the Middle East and Central Asia following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

This volume represents the current knowledge on the effect of SCMs (slag, fly ash, silica fume, limestone powder, metakaolin, natural pozzolans, rice husk ash, special SCMs, ternary blends) on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete (e.

Ultrasonic imaging is an economic, reliable diagnostic technique.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.