Building construction and materials

This book comprises select proceedings of the annual conference of the Indian Geotechnical Society.

This textbook describes the design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures according to the latest advances both in the field of materials, concrete and steel, and in the field of structural analysis.

Die Ausbildung von Ingenieuren und Technikern hat normalerweise ihrenSchwerpunkt in der Gestaltung, Auslegung und Berechnung von Bauteilenaus Metallen.

This book explores a number of important issues in the area of occupational safety and hygiene.

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This book introduces interior design as a conceptual way of thinking, which is about ideas and how they are formulated.

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place.

This book describes exemplary selected projects carried out in the Trentino-Alto Adige region (Italy) exploring numerous building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) systems (i.

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This book gathers selected peer-reviewed papers from the 16th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), held in Seville from 5-7 October 2022.

Maximizing reader insights into the roles of intelligent agents in networks, air traffic and emergency departments, this volume focuses on congestion in systems where safety and security are at stake, devoting special attention to applying game theoretic analysis of congestion to: protocols in wired and wireless networks; power generation, air transportation and emergency department overcrowding.

This book addresses the pertinent issues that will need to be considered by those interested in physical security problems of the future.

Compiled by AECOM, the 2024 edition has been updated with the latest pricing information to help you manage your projects over the next 12 months through this challenging period of high inflation and financial uncertainty.

This book provides a broad overview of project and project management principles, processes, and success/failure factors.

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of masonry structures and constructions, as presented by leading international researchers at the 18th International Brick and Block Masonry Conference (IB2MaC), held in Birmingham, UK, on July 21-24, 2024.

Every entry follows a standard pattern: after the address and telephone number of the institution there is a brief description of its history and financial support, followed by the names of the senior staff, total number of staff, the institution's structure and services, its main research programmes and a list of its publications.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector.

Global construction data is vital for contractors, governments, international organisations, policy makers, academic researchers and statisticians.

This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals' fire safety in historic buildings.

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant challenge.

This book seeks to fill the information gap on a key emerging real estate market and demystify the perception that the market in Ghana and indeed, across sub-Saharan Africa is opaque.

Enclosure Fire Dynamics, Second Edition explores the science of enclosure fires and how they cause changes in the environment of a building on fire.

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FROM THE INTRODUCTION"e;Considerable effort has gone into the study of various aspects of flammability and of various plastic materials, so that these materials which are proving so useful to man will always be used in ways which will not compromise his safety.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications in the field of sustainable construction materials and structures, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the 14th International scientific conference "e;Modern Building Materials, Structures and Techniques"e; (MBMST 2023), held in Vilnius, Lithuania, on 5-6 October 2023.

This book includes topics in nanophysics, nanotechnology, nanomaterials, sensors, biosensors, security systems, and CBRN agents detection.

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 1st Interdisciplinary Symposium on Smart & Sustainable Infrastructure (ISSSI), held in Vancouver, BC, Canada, on September 4-8, 2023, and affiliated with the 77th RILEM Annual Week 2023.

This book outlines the development of safety and cybersecurity, threats and activities in automotive vehicles.

This book is a call to action for housing recovery policymakers and practitioners to leverage foresight and planning capacities to achieve long-term resilience.

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

Building Sustainability in East Asia: Policy, Design and People illustrates the holistic approaches and individual strategies to building sustainability that have been implemented in construction projects in Asia.

Just like building physics, performance based building design was hardly an issue before the energy crises of the 1970s.

Safe and high-efficiency operation are two main issues in rail transportation.

This book has been written by two experts in ventilation and indoor air quality with vast experience in the field of kitchen ventilation in both Asia and Europe.

Disturbing asbestos materials during construction is a serious hazard that all contractors may encounter.

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The role of designers has traditionally been to design a building so that it conforms to accepted local building codes.

Covers the entire process of risk management by providing methodologies for determining the sources of engineering project risk, and once threats have been identified, managing them through: identification and assessment (probability, relative importance, variables, risk breakdown structure, etc.

This textbook is the first comprehensive and systematic account of the science, technology and policy issues associated with nuclear energy and nuclear weapons.

This book gathers contributions presented at the 9th Workshop on Cyclostationary Systems and Their Applications, held in Grodek nad Dunajcem, Poland in February 2016.

This book discusses asset life-cycle management, especially, human dimensions on the management of infrastructure and industry-sector assets.

Mandatory Competencies: APC Essentials is the first book in a new series designed to cover what any RICS APC (and AssocRICS) candidate or qualified surveyor needs to know about the mandatory competencies.

The Environmental Design Pocketbook 2nd ed places the information you need for sustainable, low energy building design at your fingertips.

Although project management is a newly recognised profession, it deals with a number of significant challenges.