Building construction and materials

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of structural health monitoring, as presented at the 8th Civil Structural Health Monitoring Workshop (CSHM-8), held on March 31-April 2, 2021.

Both professionals and students are increasingly committed to achieving high-performance metrics in the design, construction and operation of residential buildings.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

This book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format.

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

This book is a call to arms to all architects, designers and built environment professionals.

This book examines real-time target tracking and identification algorithms with a focus on tracking an agile target.

Environmental Ergonomics: Principles, Methods, and Applications provides the philosophy, principles and application of environmental ergonomics as a universal concept and considers total environments as an integration of environmental factors to which people are exposed.

Construction Management: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive textbook for budding construction managers.

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Conference "e;Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering"e;, ECCE 2024, held on April 22-24, 2024, in Opole, Poland.

Finding solutions to indoor air quality problems is often a complex, multifaceted endeavor.

This book presents comprehensive experimental, numerical, and theoretical studies on the highway bridge under collision and explosion.

This book examines energy efficiency in the Australian built environment and presents current developments with a particular focus on the temperate setting of Victoria state.

Brandschutz ist nicht nur gefordert und somit wichtig, nein – Brandschutz kann auch richtig interessant sein und Spaß machen!

This corrected version of the landmark 1981 textbook introduces the physical principles and theoretical basis of acoustics with deep mathematical rigor, concentrating on concepts and points of view that have proven useful in applications such as noise control, underwater sound, architectural acoustics, audio engineering, nondestructive testing, remote sensing, and medical ultrasonics.

This book explicitly addresses policy options in a democratic society regarding cognitive enhancement drugs and devices.

This new edition of Reporting for Buyers provides guidance for the surveyor on setting out the findings of the inspection in a clear, unambiguous and unequivocal way.

eWork and eBusiness in Architecture, Engineering and Construction 2018 collects the papers presented at the 12th European Conference on Product and Process Modelling (ECPPM 2018, Copenhagen, 12-14 September 2018).

This edited book aims to provide a collection of scientific evidence on gender issues in the construction industry that contributes to discussions on equality, gender diversity, and inclusion in the built environment; it also provides baseline data for policy design and future research on women in the built environment.

Cementitious materials are being widely used as solidification/stabilisation and barrier materials for a variety of chemical and radioactive wastes, primarily due to their favourable retention properties for metals, radionuclides and other contaminants.

This second edition of Professional Ethics for the Construction Industry empowers a new generation of built environment professionals to navigate the ethical challenges confronting them at every stage of a project, from the initial bid to its completion and beyond.

This book sheds light on aviation security, considering both technologies and legal principles.

This timely book aims to address a significant challenge in contemporary design and architecture, i.

This book focuses on the design, management, and cybersecurity of connected and autonomous vehicles under the umbrella of the Internet of Vehicles.

Architecture must adapt to protect people from the threat of climate change.

Although polypropylene has been marketed since the 1950s, research and development in this area is still vigorous.

This book highlights cyber-security overview, perspectives, and challenges that affect advanced Vehicular technology.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society for Civil Engineering 2023.

Maps are tools used to understand space, discover territories, communicate information, and explain the results of geographical analysis.

This book is a novel contribution to a field dominated by conventional approaches to project management; it is about narratives in megaprojects.

This brief presents information on occupational injuries from electric shock and arc flash events through a review of literature, electrical incident data, and similar sources.

This third edition of Green Buildings Pay presents new evidence and new arguments concerning the institutional and business case that can be made for green design.

John Ruskin's critical commentary on culture and society, transformative in his own time, established him as a leading critic of the 19th century.

Risk science is becoming increasingly important as businesses, policymakers and public sector leaders are tasked with decision-making and investment using varying levels of knowledge and information.

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

Protection against fire and prevention of explosion is vital in a modern industrial economy.

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities 2023 (SIIOC 2023).

This book comprises the selected contributions from the 2nd World Congress on Condition Monitoring (WCCM 2019), held in Singapore in December 2019.

This Brief evaluates the consequences of protein modifications in cheeses, with special emphasis on mozzarella cheeses.

Urban Heat Mitigation Strategies: An Architecture Perspective explores heat mitigation strategies integrated into the urban architecture of global cities, aiming to enhance citizens' quality of life through thoughtful design decisions blending architecture, science and engineering.

This book gathers papers from the 12th Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) Postgraduate Research Conference, which was held at the International Convention Centre, East London, Eastern Cape, South Africa, from July 10 to 12, 2022.

This third edition textbook provides the basics of reliability physics and engineering that are needed by electrical engineers, mechanical engineers, civil engineers, biomedical engineers, materials scientists, and applied physicists to help them to build better devices/products.

This book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Symposium on Disaster Resilience and Sustainable Development, organized by the Disaster Preparedness, Mitigation, and Management Program of the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, in collaboration with academic institutions and organizations across the world.

This book is oriented on cities and their role in society, from the public places created in cities to the visionary and more abstract views on large scale developments.

Recently there has been a plethora of work published on the topic of sustainability, much of which is purely theoretical or technical in its approach.

This concise student edition of the most widely used dictionary for construction and design professionals offers clear explanations of essential construction-related terms and concepts.

This textbook presents applicative examples of the main methods of structural analysis of statically indeterminate frame structures.