Building construction and materials

A detailed guide to the technical aspects of refurbishing and upgrading buildings, this book provides solutions to a range of problems, challenges and issues and is essential reading for all students studying building refurbishment at all levels.

Heat Recovery with Commercial, Institutional, and Industrial Heat Pumps presents the basic concepts and thermodynamic behavior of mechanical vapor compression and recompression.

A comprehensive summary of the vocabulary used across the building industry, from the preparation of an architectural brief, through creative and technical design, to construction technology and facilities management.

THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO HVAC DESIGNThis practical manual describes the HVAC system design process step by step using photographs, drawings, and a discussion of pertinent design considerations for different types of HVAC components and systems.

This book contains an inclusive compilation of perspectives about the Arctic Ocean with contributions that extend from Indigenous residents and early career scientists to Foreign Ministers, involving perspectives across the spectrum of subnational-national-international jurisdictions.

Human Resources Management in Construction fills an important gap in current management literature by applying general principles of human resources management specifically to the construction industry.

The measurement of dependability attributes on real systems is a very time-consuming and costly affair, making analytical or simulation modeling the only viable solutions.

This book provides a checklist, classified by work section, which will enable the cost engineer to ensure that no items of significant cost have been omitted.

This book examines the issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise, provides a history of terrorism in the aviation sector, and analyzes the legal regulations.

While the word "e;automation"e; may conjure images of robots taking over jobs, the reality is much more nuanced.

With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live.

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices, fault-tolerant architectures and reliability evaluation techniques.

The book introduces all the aspects needed for the safe and economic design and analysis of connections using bolted joints in steel structures.

This book brings together some 20 chapters on state-of-the-art research in the broad field of computational plasticity with applications in civil and mechanical engineering, metal forming processes, geomechanics, nonlinear structural analysis, composites, biomechanics and multi-scale analysis of materials, among others.

During the last two decades more and more universities offer courses on modern structural reliability theory.

This book addresses smoke management in enclosures and provides a platform for understanding the principles of smoke propagation and spread, heat release rate, and the effect of sprinklers on suppression.

This book will help readers gain a solid understanding of non-functional requirements inherent in systems design endeavors.

Licensing law is a wide ranging , detailed and complex body of law within the UK.

This book uses motivating examples and real-life attack scenarios to introduce readers to the general concept of fault attacks in cryptography.

This book, written by leaders in the protection field of critical infrastructures, provides an extended overview of the technological and operative advantages together with the security problems and challenges of the new paradigm of the Internet of Things in today's industry, also known as the Industry Internet of Things (IIoT).

Traditionally the process of design has concentrated on the construction phase itself, with the primary objective being to optimise efficiency and minimise costs during development and construction.

This book presents both the fundamental theory and numerical calculations and field experiments used in a range of practical engineering projects.

The Earth's temperature has been rising.

The mathematical verification of the safety of structures can be done by determining the probability of failure or by using safety elements.

West of Herkimer's Nose, a point of land just outside Kingston, three early highways ran to the provincial capital of York - the Danforth Road completed in 1802, the York-Kingston Road finished in 1817, the old Highway 2.

From long-standing worries regarding the use of lead and asbestos to recent research into carcinogenic issues related to the use of plastics in construction, there is growing concern regarding the potential toxic effects of building materials on health.

This book focuses on tritium as a fuel for fusion reactors and a next-generation energy source.

The growing demand for high quality office and manufacturing space in South East Asia has led to an increasing awareness of 'intelligent building' concepts.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Visionary Action towards Liveable Urban Environments (VALUE 2020).

This tenth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales.

This book covers fire and extinguishing theory and reliability theory and how to validate any survey within the field of engineering.

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.

The purpose of this book is to present concepts in a statistical treatment of risks.

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Building International Construction Alliances is the first book to address the challenges of international cooperation between medium-sized construction firms.

This book is a step-by-step practical guide on how to achieve successful projects in EPC/turnkey contracting and construction.

Modelled on the concept of Industry 4.

This book details the basic concepts and the design rules included in Eurocode 3 Design of steel structures: Part 1-8 Design of joints Joints in composite construction are also addressed through references to Eurocode 4 Design of composite steel and concrete structures Part 1-1: General rules and rules for buildings.

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Computational Welding Mechanics for Engineering Application: Buckling Distortion of Thin Plate and Residual Stress of Thick Plate deals with two special issues in the field of computational welding mechanics: buckling distortion of thin plate and residual stress of thick plate.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Conference and Exhibition on Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE 2022).

This book explores innovation in the U.

This book aims to uncover the root causes of natural and man-made disasters by going beyond the typical reports and case studies conducted post-disaster.

This book is the first one addressing quantum information from the viewpoint of group symmetry.

The book provides a concise focussed guide to the main management areas that are essential to the success of modern construction projects.

Mit dieser, vom Bau-Überwachungsverein (BÜV) herausgegebenen Empfehlung für die Bemessung und Konstruktion tragender Kunststoffbauteile, wird dem Planer, ausgehend von den ingenieurtechnischen Grundlagen, die Planung, Berechnung und Ausführung von Bauteilen in Kunststoff praxisnah erläutert.