Building construction and materials

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2021.

This book explains behavioral aspects of Reinforced Concrete (RCC) structures along with brief research to understand the codal recommendations in different countries.

Industrial development is essential to improvement of the standard of living in all countries.

This book presents the features of manufactured sand (MS) and its application in concrete as the fine aggregate.

The economic analysis of a building is a complex subject and traditionally it has focused on a single aspect of the structure or a single part of the construction process.

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.

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Canada.

Built environment students are not always familiar with the range of different research approaches they could be using for their projects.

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

Concrete repair continues to be a subject of major interest to engineers and technologists worldwide.

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

The ancient churches and cathedrals of England's towns and countryside are among the glories of our national heritage, the church spire one of the quintessential features of the landscape.

This reference work provides comprehensive information about the bioactive molecules presented in our daily food and their effect on the physical and mental state of our body.

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this issue.

Topics in Modal Analysis & Testing, Volume 8:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the eighth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the XXIV Conference of the Italian Association of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, held in Rome, Italy, on September 15-19, 2019 (AIMETA 2019).

Passive House Details introduces the concepts, principles, and design processes of building ultralow-energy buildings.

Access scaffolding is the most important element of plant for building, civil engineering and structural engineering contractors.

Economic constraints and lack of knowledge often prevent companies - especially small and medium enterprises - from harmonizing their facilities with the landscape.

This book provides practical and buildable solutions for the design of foundations for housing and other low-rise buildings, especially those on abnormal or poor ground.

This book provides full-scale field tests of different types of pile foundations.

This book explores the theoretical background and provides an experimental analysis of using natural energy resources in sustainable building design.

This work is intended to jointly address the development, realization and applications of emitters and detectors of terahertz (THz-0.

Concise but comprehensive, Structural Elements for Architects and Builders is primarily focused on the design and analysis of structural elements: columns, beams, tension members and their connections.

This book forms part of a unique, highly practical and time-saving three volume presentation of the Building Regulations, each book covering all the regulations relating to specific building usage.

Solar Energy Applications in Houses: Performance and Economics in Europe provides information on the state of development of solar space and water heating technology and on the influence of climatic and economic factors on the attractiveness of solar systems.

This manual provides a comprehensive source of building component life-span and maintenance data for commercial and industrial building components, following the same format as the ground-breaking HAPM Component Life Manual for domestic buildings.

Building Services Design Methodology clearly sets out and defines the building services design process from concept to post-construction phase.

This book covers the range of methodological approaches, methods and tools currently used in various areas of building science and technology research and addresses the current lack of research-method literature in this field.

This book systematically discusses the workability, mechanical properties, water stability, and material design methods of ultra-high ductility magnesium phosphate cement-based composites (UHDMC) with PVA fibers, PE fibers, or hybrid fibers.

This book contains select proceedings of the 12th annual conference of Deep Foundations Institute of India, DFI-India 2023, held during 05-07 October 2023.

Die dritte Auflage des Klassikers Stahlbetonbrücken behandelt in umfassender Form die Grundlagen des konzeptionellen Entwurfs sowie der Projektierung, Ausführung und Erhaltung von Brücken aus Stahl- und Spannbeton.

This book examines pedestrian shoe-floor slip resistance from an engineering standpoint in order to better understand friction and wear behavior.

This volume contains papers of the 9th European Workshop on the Seismic Behaviour of Irregular and Complex Structures (9EWICS) held in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2020.

The conference proceeding presents state of the art papers related to asphalt materials and asphalt pavements.

With extensive case studies for illustration, this is a practitioner's guide to an entirely new production system for construction management using flowline scheduling.

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SHELVING GUIDE: Project ManagementThis hands-on guide is written for project professionals seeking to find an optimized way of performing project management.

Island Landscapes takes a critical look at the evolution of European islandscapes and seascapes to examine the conditions facing them in the twenty first century.

This book is the essential guide to the pedagogical and industry-inspired considerations that must shape how BIM is taught and learned.

Dieses Lehrbuch der Tragwerksplanung vermittelt Studierenden der Architektur, der Innenarchitektur und des Produktdesigns das essentielle Wissen zu Statik, Tragsystemen und Tragkonstruktionen, das beim Entwurf und der Planung erforderlich ist um  ein in sich stimmiges und funktionierendes Gebäude oder Produkt zu konzipieren.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the classification, design, construction, and maintenance of subsea pipeline systems.

Sustainability Principles and Practice gives an accessible and comprehensive overview of the interdisciplinary field of sustainability.