Building construction and materials

The definitive guide to environmental control systems, updated with emerging technology and trends The Interactive Resource Center is an online learning environment where instructors and students can access the tools they need to make efficient use of their time, while reinforcing and assessing their understanding of key concepts for successful understanding of the course.

Securing the Outdoor Construction Site: Strategy, Prevention, and Mitigation offers a holistic view of security planning for vulnerable capital projects, providing the strategic and tactical plans needed to protect large areas with a minimum investment in personnel and equipment.

The Kent coastal strip of Dungeness is a unique environment.

Whether it's a small citrus plant or a large vine, conservatory plants are more popular than ever.

Rock mass classification methods are commonly used at the preliminary design stages of a construction project when there is very little information.

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.

Turn an ordinary piece of wood into a fire-burned masterpiece!

This new book, by the original developer of the BACnet standards, explains how BACnet's protocols manage all basic building functions in a seamless, integrated way.

Construction Calculations is a manual that provides end users with a comprehensive guide for many of the formulas, mathematical vectors and conversion factors that are commonly encountered during the design and construction stages of a construction project.

We are taught to believe in originals.

Structural Mechanics and Design of Metal Pipes: A systematic approach for onshore and offshore pipelines presents a unified and systematic approach to understanding and analyzing the structural behavior of onshore and offshore metallic pipelines.

This book explores the application of breakthrough technologies to improve transportation performance.

The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade.

Over the last decade, techniques for materials preparation and processing at nanometer scale have advanced rapidly, leading to the introduction of novel principles for a new generation of sensors and detectors.

While there are several books on market that are designed to serve a company's daily shop-floor needs.

What are the real costs and real benefits of building green?

Securing the Outdoor Construction Site: Strategy, Prevention, and Mitigation offers a holistic view of security planning for vulnerable capital projects, providing the strategic and tactical plans needed to protect large areas with a minimum investment in personnel and equipment.

Millions of homes built before 1978 contain lead paint, which poses a serious hazard to children under the age of 6.

While it would appear that contractors are not affected by the liabilities of the work of others, it is important that they understand the documentation that establishes culpability and the terms of restitution.

Disturbing asbestos materials during construction is a serious hazard that all contractors may encounter.

While there are several books on market that are designed to serve a company's daily shop-floor needs.

Rock mass classification methods are commonly used at the preliminary design stages of a construction project when there is very little information.

Packed with conceptual sketches and photos, real world case studies and green construction details, Handbook of Green Building Design and Construction provides a wealth of practical guidelines and essential insights that will facilitate the design of green buildings.

Construction Calculations is a manual that provides end users with a comprehensive guide for many of the formulas, mathematical vectors and conversion factors that are commonly encountered during the design and construction stages of a construction project.

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

Characteristics and Uses of Steel Slag in Building Construction focuses predominantly on the utilization of ferrous slag (blast furnace and steel slag) in building construction.

Dreamers, owner-builders, natural and sustainable building contractors, modern homesteaders Cordwood construction - log-ends set in insulated mortar - is a versatile, economical, low-impact, and beautiful building method.

Solar cooling is most effective where it is most needed - in the tropics.

Piping and Pipeline Calculations Manual is a "e;no nonsense"e; guide to the principle intentions of the codes or standards and provides advice on compliance.

Adopted in the United States and a number of other countries, LEED certification is the recognized standard for measuring building sustainability.

The plastic analysis method has been used extensively by engineers for designing steel structures.

Elasticity: Theory, Applications and Numerics Second Edition provides a concise and organized presentation and development of the theory of elasticity, moving from solution methodologies, formulations and strategies into applications of contemporary interest, including fracture mechanics, anisotropic/composite materials, micromechanics and computational methods.

Smart Buildings Systems for Architects, Owners and Builders is a practical guide and resource for architects, builders, engineers, facility managers, developers, contractors, and design consultants.

Insecure transportation systems are costing our worldwide mobility-based economy as much as 6% of GDP annually.

From the highly successful 150 Best series, the ultimate resource for single home buyers and owners, architects, developers, and designers, filled with contemporary, fresh ideas for sustainable construction and gorgeous interiors, vividly captured in hundreds of stunning four-color photographs.

You may think you know a foundation problem when you see one.

Now in its fourth edition, this respected text delivers a comprehensive introduction to the principles and practice of refrigeration.

Geotechnical Engineering Calculations and Rules of Thumb offers geotechnical, civil and structural engineers a concise, easy-to-understand approach the formulas and calculation methods used in of soil and geotechnical engineering.

Thin-walled structures are designed with advanced numerical analysis techniques and constructed using sophisticated fabrication processes.

- Provides practical solutions to the challenge of modeling and analyzing rock masses- Consolidates a wealth of previously published technical papers on the subject and introduces previously unseen materialThis authoritative title is a key reference for any Geo-engineer.

Lea's Chemistry of Cement and Concrete deals with the chemical and physical properties of cements and concretes and their relation to the practical problems that arise in manufacture and use.

Industrial manufacturers are increasingly using very high pressure water jets for the cleaning and breaking up of materials.

This book publishes the proceedings from the Third International Workshop on Connections in Steel Structures: Behaviour, Strength and Design held in Trento, Italy, 29-31 May 1995.

These two volumes of proceedings contain 11 invited keynote papers and 172 contributed papers presented at the International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held on 11-14 December 1996 in Hong Kong.

These two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers and 126 contributed papers to be presented at the Second International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held on 15-17 December 1999 in Hong Kong.

This two volume proceedings contains 11 invited keynote papers, 33 invited papers, and 225 contributed papers presented at the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures (ICASS '05) held on 13-15 June 2005 in Shanghai, China.

Giving you the first comprehensive presentation of the ground breaking research undertaken at Heriot Watt University, with Research Council and industrial funding, this book brings a new perspective to the design of building drainage and vent systems.

A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the basic information on the functions, design, and applications of fire protection systems; but also reveals how this information can and should be integrated with every other major engineering discipline.