Building construction and materials

This book presents the state of the art on the topic of recycling of plastic building materials, comprising a synthetic market analysis, and presenting the latest developments in plastic recycling technologies.

This year's book has a strong approximate estimates section, with most measured works items also presented as composite items.

This book presents the proceedings of 10th International Conference on Building Materials and Construction held at Okinawa, Japan on 21-24 Feb 2025.

The first desk reference on technical building systems for interior designers Building Systems for Interior Designers is the first book to explain technical building systems and engineering issues in a clear and accessible way to interior designers.

What do we mean by net zero energy?

These two volumes provide authoritative guidance on all aspects of concrete construction from the point of view of the supervisor responsible for the work on site.

This book presents models and methods for systems reliability assessment, human reliability analysis and uncertainty management.

This book details the rigorous requirements for refractories designed for aluminium metallurgical processes: reduction, cast house, and anode production.

Creating a Culture of Predictable Outcomes demonstrates the importance of creating cultures in the design and construction industries grounded in sophisticated-caring leadership, high-performing collaborative teams, and master-level decision-making discipline, informed by values, to finally address massive inefficiencies, waste, and unpredictability.

Manufacturing a product is not difficult, the difficulty consists in manufacturing a product of high quality, at a low cost and rapidly.

This book highlights current research and developments in the area of Structural Engineering and Construction Management, which are important disciplines in Civil Engineering.

The first guide to the terminology of sustainable design.

"e;As long as government continues to push collaborative working and best value, partnering will be in vogue"e; If you are implementing partnering in your organisation and don t know where to start, this book covers everything you'll need - explaining all aspects of the partnering relationship from scratch.

This revised and updated edition of Construction Equipment Management fills a gap on this subject by integrating both conceptual and hands-on quantitative knowledge on construction equipment into a process that facilitates student learning.

This book describes current best practice in managing construction.

Everything needed to pass the first part of the City & Guilds 2365 Diploma in Electrical Installations.

This book offers students, scholars, and practitioners a clear overview of the problems and the available solutions for the prevention and mitigation of Natech scenarios - technological accidents triggered by natural events, such as earthquakes, tsunamis and floods - addressing both the control and management of risk and the enhancement of system resilience.

This volume contains contributions by eminent researchers in the field of geotechnical engineering.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 39th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2021, the second volume of nine from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents contributions on new technologies in building and construction.

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

Robots, aerospace structures, active earthquake-damping devices of tall buildings, and active sound suppression are examples of the application of structural dynamics and control methods.

WOOD DETERIORATION, PROTECTION AND MAINTENANCE Wood has low embodied energy, is a renewable resource and can perform extremely well in a range of construction applications, so it is not surprising that there is growing interest in the use of wood in new buildings.

This book contains the proceedings of ICIDA 2023.

This textbook is for readers new or returning to the practice of optimization whose interest in the subject may relate to a wide range of products and processes.

This volume discusses a combination of topics dealing with the wide variety of urban planning, authored by well reputed scholars in India mastering disciplines such as architecture, urban design, transportation planning, public policy, urban planning, urban engineering and civil engineering.

Self-Compacting Concrete (SCC) is a relatively new building material.

Cash is king, not least in the construction industry.

This book discusses the properties, characterization procedures, and analysis techniques of various structural materials.

This book is an introductory text on building measurement and estimating for simple buildings in Hong Kong, based on the Hong Kong Standard Method of Measurement of Building Works 4th Edition Revised 2018 (HKSMM4 Rev 2018).

A Practical Research Process for Developing a Sustainable Built Environment in Emerging Economies aims to fill the dearth of practical research guidance and reference material with specific focus on the built environment in developing countries.

This book describes procedures and methodologies used predominantly to obtain a diagnosis of damaged concrete possibly caused by Alkali-Aggregate Reaction (AAR).

This book presents a case study of one of Latin America's most important and symbolic spaces, the Zocalo in Mexico City, weaving together historic events and corresponding morphological changes in the urban environment.

Since the publication of the successful first edition of Earthquake Protection there have been 110 lethal earthquakes, killing 130 000 people; there have also been significant developments in the field of earthquake risk management, particularly in the modelling and analysis of risk for insurance and financial services.

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants.

Presenting new developments and approaches, this book condenses essential information in construction management and IT in construction.

This book summarizes the technical method and construction process of pipe jacking.

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety.

Heat Exchangers: Mechanical Design, Materials Selection, Nondestructive Testing, and Manufacturing Methods, Third Edition covers mechanical design of pressure vessels and shell and tube heat exchangers, including bolted flange joint design, as well as selection of a wide spectrum of materials for heat exchanger construction, their physical properties, corrosion behavior, and fabrication methods like welding.

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'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, used to describe emotional attachment to a particular location.

This new Routledge Pocket Book provides a user-friendly guide to the latest amendments to the 18th Edition of IET Wiring Regulations (BS 7671:2018).

This edited volume is a compilation of peer-reviewed papers of the plenary lectures, keynote lectures, special lectures and young researcher's special lectures delivered at the 1st International Symposium on Construction Resources for Environmentally Sustainable Technologies (CREST 2020) organized by Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.

Dieses Nachschlagewerk bietet eine Zusammenfassung der zentralen Nachweisverfahren, Formeln und Bauteilkennwerte des derweil doch sehr komplexen Fachgebietes „Bauphysik“ sowie kurz gefasste Ausführungen zu den jeweiligen physikalischen Grundlagen und Zusammenhängen.

This book contains selected articles from the third International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2022 (3ICGE-2022) held on May 29-31, 2022, at the University of Baghdad/Baghdad/Iraq.

Understanding Active Noise Cancellation Provides a concise introduction to the fundamentals and applications of active control of vibration and sound for the non-expert.

This book contains papers, presented at the fire retardant chemicals association conference held in Florida in 1996, on various topics, including trends towards polymeric flame retardants, intumescent flame retardants, and fire calorimetry testing in product research and development.

The Water Reactor Fuel Performance Meeting (WRFPM) held in Asia has merged with TopFuel in Europe and LWR Fuel Performance in the United States to form the globally most influential conference in the field of nuclear fuel research.