Civil engineering, surveying and building

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Historic buildings and places play an essential role in the everyday lives of the people of the UK, their cultural identity and the economy.

Better water management will be crucial if we are to meet many of the key challenges of this century - feeding the worlds growing population and reducing poverty, meeting water and sanitation needs, protecting vital ecosystems, all while adapting to climate change.

This monograph presents an analysis of construction safety problems and on-site safety measures from an economist's point of view.

River Morphology deals with the interaction between flowing waters in rivers and their environment.

The first edition of Place and Experience established Jeff Malpas as one of the leading philosophers and thinkers of place and space and provided a creative and refreshing alternative to prevailing post-structuralist and postmodern theories of place.

Among different approaches that can be considered for concrete rehabilitation, bonded overlays are often the most economical alternative.

The latest book in the popular series demonstrates state-of-the-art methods, models, and techniques for water quality management.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the Italian Concrete Conference 2020, held on April 14-17, 2021.

This book presents select proceedings of the Indian Lean Construction Conference (ILCC 2022) with adoption and implementation cases of lean concepts across Indian construction projects.

The discussion about energy perspectives up to 2050 and beyond has started.

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Advancement in Energy, Drives, and Control.

This is the first book on social capital and trust informed by a critical geographical perspective.

The idea of socioecosystems answers the growing need to understand, in the context of the Anthropocene, how adaptive processes interact, and how that interplay results in the coevolution of living beings.

The revised and updated comprehensive resource for Quantity Surveyors working with a construction contractor The second edition of Construction Quantity Surveying offers a practical guide to quantity surveying from a main contractor's perspective.

This book provides comprehensive information on the youngest member of the petroleum sciences family: Oilfield Chemistry, proposes the chemical agents for addressing current problems, and explains the functions, mechanisms and synergistic effects of various chemical agents

Articulating a radical agenda for the rethinking of the basic precepts of the construction industry in light of digital technologies, this book explores the profound shift that is underway in all aspects of architectural process.

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This updated and expanded edition of the bestselling textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the methods and theory of nonlinear finite element analysis.

The contributions in Risks Challenging Publics, Scientists and Government looks at risks not just as a technical, social, political or economic matter, but as originating and challenging the various disciplines.

In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge.

This book presents new research on the capacity of big cities to generate new tourism areas as visitors discover and help create new urban experiences off the beaten track.

The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century.

Inspiring deep emotion, landscape carries many meanings.

Vehicle, road, sign, and signal lighting are provided to enable drivers to reach their destinations quickly and safely.

Each of these Analysing Architecture Notebooks is devoted to a particular theme in understanding the rich and varied workings of architecture.

Diese Einführung in die Praxis für die Berechnung von Zuverlässigkeit und Verfügbarkeit von technischen Systemen legt besonderen Wert auf den technischen und wirtschaftlichen Nutzen der Ergebnisse.

Offering a comprehensive view of water-treatment technologies, Nanomaterials for Water Treatment and Remediation explores recent developments in the use of advanced nanomaterials (ANMs) for water treatment and remediation.

For a long time, urban agriculture initiatives have been explored and novel policy and planning practices have been investigated.

The first edition of this book appeared over three decades ago (Wiley-Interscience, 1983), whereas the second one saw light on the verge of new millennium (Dover, 1999).

The book explores a range of mathematical topics essential for application in engineering and applied sciences.

This book represents the proceedings of the firstGreat Lakes Costal Wetlands Colloquium (November 5-7, 1984; East Lansing, Michigan).

This book presents a technical approach to promoting the development of disaster and climate change risk financing and transfer strategies, and discusses several practical issues, chiefly focusing on Latin America and the Caribbean.

Ambulatory Surgery Center Safety Guidebook: Managing Code Requirements for Fire and Life Safety helps guide ASC administrative and security staff meet the requirements and standards of both federal and state authorities, including the Life Safety Code, a critical designation for facilities participating in Medicare (CMS) funding reimbursement.

The book introduces challenges affecting smaller urban communities with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants and offers urban planning and building/architectural strategies to strengthen their city centers.

New Deal Book Award 2022 Honourable MentionFrank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater explores the relationship between the economic tumult in the United States in the 1930s, Frank Lloyd Wright, and the construction of his most famous house, Fallingwater.

Quality management has received much attention in recent years, not least in the construction industry.

This book is a guide to computational design for landscape architects replete with extensive tutorials.

This book is an easy-to-read introduction to the principles and methods of building procurement and is aimed at first year students or non-cognate graduates starting out on a career in construction, property, quantity surveying and construction management.

This volume discusses the readiness of the U.

Structural analysis is usually carried out by a strength-of-materials approach that allows complex 3-D structures to be modelled adequately for design needs in a single dimension.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

Der Planung, Steuerung und Überwachung von Bauprojekten kommt mit zunehmender Größe eine wachsende Bedeutung zu.

This volume contains selected papers from the Fifth Conference on Maintenance, Condition Monitoring and Diagnostics, MCMD 2021, in Oulu, Finland, collected by editors with years of experiences in condition monitoring, signal processing, advanced reasoning and diagnostics, maintenance, risk assessment, and asset management.

The credit crunch has highlighted the fact that fully understanding property appraisal and valuation is more critical than ever.

Contains 69 papers presented at the North Sun conference held in Glasgow from 7-9 September 1994.

Public Interest Design Practice Guidebook: Seed Methodology, Case Studies, and Critical Issues is the first book to demonstrate that public interest design has emerged as a distinct profession.

Uniquely, this book gives consumers a voice and regales tales of their experiences.

This exciting new volume will provide a comprehensive overview of the applications of geoinformatics technology for engineers, scientists, and students to become more productive, more aware, and more responsive to global climate change issues and how to manage sustainable development of Earth's resources.