Building construction and materials

Dieses Buch ist eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme für eine bereits angelaufene dezentrale Energiewende.

This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety, and wellbeing in the architecture, engineering, construction, and facility management sector.

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

Organizations in the construction industry struggle with three key issues: quality management or better meeting customer expectations, supply chain management or more effectively working with suppliers to provide a seamless service to customers, and knowledge management, the challenge of learning between collaborating organisations and between people working on similar projects around the world.

This book presents methods and results that cover and extend beyond the state-of-the-art in structural dynamics and earthquake engineering.

This handbook provides a clear explanation of the commercial, contractual and statutory aspects of a capital project in the process industries from feasability studies, through commissioning/contract; to construction operation.

This guide will keep you cool Like its earlier editions, this fully updated guidebook is packed with practical information on installing, servicing, maintaining, and trouble-shooting air-conditioning systems.

This book presents the select proceedings of the International Conference on Advances in Construction Materials and Management (ACMM 2021).

Highly detailed and elaborate, this book is written explicitly for the purpose of professionals who work with gypsum in various technical and consumer-centric fields.

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces.

First Published in 2004.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 19th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Cape Town, South Africa on October 26-28, 2022.

This book comprises the proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Society of Civil Engineering 2022.

Wahrend die Effizienz- und Nachhaltigkeitsoffensive in den meisten Wirtschaftsbereichen in vollem Gang ist, steht das Bauen damit noch ganz am Anfang - okonomisch wie okologisch.

FULLY UPDATED FOR THE LATEST ELECTRICAL CODES AND STANDARDSFor a century, the American Electricians' Handbook has served as the definitive industry reference for information on designing, installing, operating, and maintaining electrical systems and equipment.

These two volumes of proceedings contain 9 invited keynote papers and 126 contributed papers to be presented at the Second International Conference on Advances in Steel Structures held on 15-17 December 1999 in Hong Kong.

This book presents peer reviewed articles from The International Conference on Metallurgical Engineering and Centenary Celebration (METCENT 2023), held at Indian Institute of Technology (BHU) Varanasi, India from the 26-28th of October 2023.

This successful book, which is now appearing in its second edition, presents a comprehensive new Statics of Masonry Constructions.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the classification, design, and certification of offshore access gangway systems.

Data Science in Engineering, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

first industrial application of MPC was in 1973.

Shell structures and their components are applied in many engineering fields.

Die Lehre vom Schall, die Akustik, beschreibt die Vorgänge der mechanischen Schwingungen und ihre Ausbreitung in festen, flüssigen oder gasförmigen Stoffen.

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.

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 discusses reliability applications for power systems, renewable energy and smart grids and highlights trends in reliable communication, fault-tolerant systems, VLSI system design and embedded systems.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of information technology in civil and building engineering, presented at the 20th International Conference on Computing in Civil and Building Engineering (ICCCBE), held in Montreal, Canada on August 25-28, 2024.

Through the emerging lens of social enterprise, this book examines how the global construction industry can engage more effectively with the communities in which it builds, addressing disadvantage and environmental degradation to leave a positive legacy for future generations.

Polymer Concretes: Advanced Construction Materials provides a comprehensive study on polymer concrete (PC), discussing historical perspectives of its use, the classification and applications of PC, and the advantages and disadvantages of its use.

Highway Engineering: Planning, Design, and Operations, Second Edition, presents a clear and rigorous exposition of highway engineering concepts, including project development and the relationship between planning, operations, safety and highway types.

This book enhances the reader's understanding of the nature and presence of risk by raising the organisation's awareness of the risks it faces, and formalising the systems needed to deal with and learn from those risks.

This textbook discusses engineering principles relating to air pollution and greenhouse gases (GHGs); it focuses on engineering principles and designs of related devices and equipment for air emission control for a variety of industries such as energy, chemical, and transportation industries.

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This handbook introduces a methodical approach and pragmatic concept for the planning and design of changeable factories that act in strategic alliances to supply the ever-changing needs of the global market.

This book introduces readers to various tools and techniques for the design of precision, miniature products, assemblies and associated manufacturing processes.

Highly detailed and elaborate, this book is written explicitly for the purpose of professionals who work with gypsum in various technical and consumer-centric fields.

This book covers the merits and demerits of advanced composite materials with regard to their applications for earthquake-resistant applications.

This text examines problems such as microbial contamination, building design, ventilation systems and psychological effects.

Moderne Baukonstruktionen erfordern ein sorgfältiges Planen, Konstruieren und Ausführen der Bauwerke.

This book analyses solar-assisted ground-source heat pump systems, a technology meant for producing heating and cooling energy for buildings.

This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM).

Now in its 9th Edition, Electrical Installation Calculations: Advanced has been updated to include all changes brought about by the introduction of the 18th edition of the IET Electrical Wiring Regulations (BS7671: 2018).

Lean Project Delivery and Integrated Practices in Modern Construction is the new and enhanced edition of the pioneering book Modern Construction by Lincoln H.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management.

Commerce is inherently complex and the sums of money involved can be astronomical, so it is no surprise that conflicts and disputes are all too common.

This book presents the select proceedings of the Virtual Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction (VCDRR 2021).