Building construction and materials

In this completely updated and totally revised second edition, you will learn the essentials to becoming your own contractor, includinghow to choose a sitedraw up construction time line and flow chartsapply for construction loansobtain essential insurance information, buy plansfind and negotiate with subcontractorshow to comply with building code, inspection, and permit requirements.

Build Beautiful, Durable, and Low-impact Homes with Cordwood Construction Part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series, Essential Cordwood Building is the complete guide to using log-ends set in insulating mortar for versatile, economical, and environmentally friendly construction.

For builders of natural homes (straw bale, cob, adobe, rammed earth, and other natural materials), this unique step-by-step guide takes the confusion out of choosing, mixing, and applying natural plasters.

A child would enjoy an On the Construction Site Picture Book because many children find construction machinery interesting.

Environmental disasters and severe weather due to climate change, both triggered by human actions, have had an increasingly direct impact on our homes.

Building is made more enjoyable with this artsy take on the subject.

Toronto is a concrete city.

A couple realise that the best way to get the house they want is to build it themselves.

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, about international contracting and contract management, is written from the angle of the contractor and discussed from an international perspective.

This book offers unique insights into modern African architecture, influenced by modern European architecture, and at the same time a natural successor to existing site-specific and traditional architecture.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 3rd National Conference on Structural Engineering and Construction Management (SECON'19), held in Angamaly, Kerala, India, on 15-16 May 2019.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the third volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project entitled "e;Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries"e; (NatRisk), which aims to educate experts on the prevention and management of natural disasters in the Western Balkan region in line with national and EU policies.

The book presents recent research and practical insights relating to building pathology.

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).

This volume brings together outstanding contributions to the Gulf Conference on Sustainable Built Environment, held at the Marina Hotel Kuwait, near Kuwait City.

This textbook explores probability and stochastic processes at a level that does not require any prior knowledge except basic calculus.

This book provides a novel approach to building pathology in current buildings.

This book presents intuitive explanations of the principles of microgrids, including their structure and operation and their applications.

This book provides a comprehensive and practically minded introduction into serious games for law enforcement agencies.

This book gathers papers presented at the International Conference "e;Vision Zero for Sustainable Road Safety in Baltic Sea Region"e;, held on December 2018 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, in Vilnius, Lithuania.

This book offers meaningful insights into an impending challenge for the energy industry, namely the increasing role of asset management amongst the utilities' core operations.

This book provides an overview of state-of-the-art uncertainty quantification (UQ) methodologies and applications, and covers a wide range of current research, future challenges and applications in various domains, such as aerospace and mechanical applications, structure health and seismic hazard, electromagnetic energy (its impact on systems and humans) and global environmental state change.

This visually stunning and data rich text catalogs the design of 32 concert halls by world-renowned acoustician Yasuhisa Toyota and his team at Nagata Acoustics, the firm behind the celebrated Walt Disney Concert Hall, the Hamburg Elbphilharmonie, and numerous others.

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).

This book presents essential methods and tools for research into the reliability of energy systems.

This graduate-level textbook elucidates low-risk and fail-safe systems in mathematical detail.

Residual Stress, Thermomechanics & Infrared Imaging and Inverse Problems, Volume 6 of the Proceedings of the 2019 SEM Annual Conference & Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, the sixth volume of six from the Conference, brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book consists of two parts, the first of which focuses on combustible solids, and the second on the industrial position concerning these materials.

This textbook is for courses in cyber security education that follow National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) KSAs work roles and framework, that adopt the Competency-Based Education (CBE) method.

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This book provides a detailed understanding of optimization methods as they are implemented in a variety of manufacturing, fabrication and machining processes.

This book tells the story of government-sponsored wiretapping in Britain and the United States from the rise of telephony in the 1870s until the terrorist attacks of 9/11.

This book provides information on the generation and the effects of hazardous substances that are produced during welding and allied processes.

This book is the second edition of Numerical methods for diffusion phenomena in building physics: a practical introduction originally published by PUCPRESS (2016).

This book contains research contributions from leading cyber security scholars from around the world.

This updated edition retains its introduction to applied fundamental statistics, probability, reliability, and decision theory as these pertain to problems in Civil Engineering.

This volume presents some advances in the analysis and design of deep foundations.

This book describes the key cybercrime threats facing individuals, businesses, and organizations in our online world.

This book helps professionals to turn their own Six Sigma projects into reality.

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2:  Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the second volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book presents a step by step Asset Health Management Optimization Approach Using Internet of Things (IoT).

This book presents cutting-edge work on the energy efficiency and environmental sustainability of buildings, examining EU policies, regulations and technologies for complex systems such as passive buildings, sustainable buildings and, as part of the Energy Performance of Building Directive (EPBD), nearly Zero Energy Buildings (nZEB) requirements.

This monograph is devoted to full-scale geoecological risk assessment in gas industry impacted polar areas and the relevant risk management options using innovative nature-like biogeochemical technologies.

This book opens up new ways to develop mathematical models and optimization methods for interdependent energy infrastructures, ranging from the electricity network, natural gas network, district heating network, and electrified transportation network.

Cybercrime remains a growing challenge in terms of security and privacy practices.

The book examines advanced, non-standardized techniques that have been developed for determining different properties of cement paste, mortar and concrete, and provides state-of-the-art information on methods for monitoring hydration-induced changes in cement-based materials (CBMs).

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th international scientific conference "e;Transbaltica: Transportation Science and Technology"e;, held on May 2-3, 2019 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.