Building construction and materials

This book presents the work of the RILEM TC 266-MRP, whose purpose was to enhance the reliability of rheological measurements performed on cement-based materials.

This book is intended to serve as a one-stop reference on fibre-reinforced soils.

Buildings influence people.

The first handbook devoted to the coverage of materials in the field of fire engineering.

Hollow Fiber Membrane-Based Evaporative Cooling Systems covers the principles, applications, and optimization strategies of the evaporative cooling method.

Reset Control Systems addresses the analysis for reset control treating both its basic form, and some useful variations of the reset action and reset condition.

Niger is sand, light, and heat.

This book represents a significant step toward a new contribution in the process of developing the seismic vulnerability index.

This book presents articles from The 17th East Asian-Pacific Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction, 2022, organized by National University of Singapore.

This book provides readers with an insightful understanding of the various emerging issues in the construction industry, especially in the area associated with United Nations developmental goals, 4th Industrial Revolution, Health and Safety, Sustainability, Skills and Capacity development.

This volume on structural fire resistance is for aerospace, structural, and fire prevention engineers; architects, and educators.

Beginning with material, this book revolves around physical material making and design decisions that emerge from material interaction.

This book presents the results of an experiment assessing the impact of spruce wood joints on the creation and development of fire when these joints are applied within a facade.

COMPLETE YOUR CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS FASTER - USING THE LATEST CONCEPTS IN PERFORMANCE CONTROLA comprehensive review that gives you insight into the latest innovations in network-based project planning, scheduling, and control saving you time and money on all construction projects.

This companion to the bestselling Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is an essential revision aid for students preparing for their written assessments on the NEBOSH National Certificate in Construction Health and Safety.

This monograph presents a state-of-the-art analysis of eco-friendly and aesthetic structures in wooden dome construction.

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This book is devoted to a wide range of problems concerning applications of nanomaterials and nanodevices as effective solutions to modern ecological problems.

Safety and environmental impact is of uppermost concern when dealing with the movement and storage of nuclear waste.

This volume comprises select papers presented during the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018.

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

This book presents selected papers presented during the International Symposium on Earthen Structures held in IISc Bangalore.

In this book academics and practitioners from a wide range of disciplines provide a survey of research into buildings, epidemiology and medical issues, followed by an assessment of the tools available to the practitioner.

Constructing Building Enclosures investigates and interrogates tensions that arose between the disciplines of architecture and engineering as they wrestled with technology and building cultures that evolved to deliver structures in the modern era.

The Boundary Element Method, or BEM, is a powerful numerical analysis tool with particular advantages over other analytical methods.

This book collects research outcomes related to high-performance concrete as a civil engineering material, providing readers with targeted research experiences and case analyses.

Narrative Theory in Conservation engages with conservation, heritage studies, and architectural approaches to historic buildings, offering a synthesis of the best of each, and demonstrating that conservation is capable of developing a complementary, but distinct, theoretical position of its own.

Real property in the form of investment, ownership and use pervades almost every aspect of daily lives and represents over 40% of Australia's wealth.

Energy use in buildings in the EU represents about 40% of the total annual energy consumption.

The title explain new technique of secured and high capacity optical communication signals generation by using the micro and nano ring resonators.

This book describes how, given the global challenge of a shortage of natural resources in the 21st century, the recycling of waste concrete is one of the most important means of implementing sustainable construction development strategies.

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.

The edited book comprises invited book chapter contributions from global experts in the field of sustainable materials and resilient infrastructure.

This book examines multimodality in architecture and its impacts on collaborative, technical and educational processes or systems.

This new edition of A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings begins by asking why we need to control energy use in buildings and proceeds to discuss how the energy consumption of a building can be assessed or estimated through an energy audit.

This new resource covers the material selection, structural design and connections detailing of truly sustainable timber buildings through: consideration of the nature of wood and the heritage of timber construction, including the importance of forestry and conservation a review of modern techniques to improve the durability, fire resistance and predictability of structural timber elements and their vital connections analysis of the many architectural and structural options, from roundwood shells through glulam arches and gridshells to long span hybrid structures case studies from around the world illustrating the principles discussed and the true potential of timber construction Historically there has been an imbalance between the availability of information on structural timber design and the much more widespread familiarity with traditional structural materials such as steel and concrete.

A fully updated professional reference to wells and septic systemsDon't let septic systems sink your budget!

This book provides an introduction to a fairly new approach to natural resources management practice entitled ecohydrology-based landscape restoration.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in built environment, as presented by international researchers at the 15th Built Environment Conference, held in Durban, South Africa, on September 27-28, 2021, and organized by the Association of Schools of Construction of Southern Africa (ASOCSA).

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences (HSFEA 2018).

This book presents a systematic approach to the experimental, theoretical, and numerical investigation of reinforced concrete (RC) T-beams strengthened in shear with glass-fibre-reinforced polymers (GFRP) with variation in transverse steel reinforcements.

This book covers execution of mega industrial projects especially in oil and gas industries covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and performance testing.

A panel of experts appointed by the National Research Council assessed the scientific and technical work of the Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL) of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating.