Civil engineering, surveying and building

The role and influence of building services engineers are undergoing rapid change and are pivotal to achieving low-carbon buildings.

During confined flow of bulk solids in silos some characteristic phenomena can be created, such as: sudden and significant increase of wall stresses, different flow patterns, formation and propagation of wall and interior shear zones, fluctuation of pressures and, strong autogenous dynamic effects.

First Published in 2003.

This book focuses on green and innovative wastewater treatment technologies that promote sustainability.

The Stability of Frames provides a vivid picture of phenomena affecting the stability of plane, rigid-jointed, triangulated and non-triangulated frames.

This book highlights cyber-security overview, perspectives, and challenges that affect advanced Vehicular technology.

Stability of underground excavations is of great importance to an operating mine because it ensures the safety of the working people and operating equipment, and successful ore production.

This book discusses multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear terrorism.

Land use and water resources are two major environmental issues which necessitate conservation, management, and maintenance practices through the use of various engineering techniques.

This new edition textbook continues down the path that the first edition, winner of the 2013 IISE/Joint Publishers Book-of-the-Year Award, successfully carved out.

Inter-basin water transfers are complex human interventions on natural systems that can have profound adverse as well as beneficial social, economic and environmental implications.

This textbook provides an introduction to the concept of sustainability in the context of transportation planning, management, and decision-making.

Effluents generated from the pharmaceutical industry contain organic and inorganic contaminants that create potential threats to human health and the environment.

This textbook provides an accessible introduction to various energy transformation technologies and their influences on the environment.

Newnes Building Services Pocket Book is a unique compendium of essential data, techniques and procedures, best practice, and underpinning knowledge.

The purpose of this manual is to familiarize industry and students with the technology of asphalt in its several forms namely asphalt cement, cutback asphalt, and asphalt emulsions.

This book is based on several decades of authors' research and practical experience in the areas of industrial and commercial buildings ventilation and energy efficiency as well as in process optimization in different types of industrial facilities.

Implement demand driven smart metrics to drive and sustain dramatic gains in flow and improve ROI performanceWhat if the objective of minimizing unit product cost that is hard coded into all reporting and measurement systems is simply "e;bad math"e; that drives decisions and actions that destroy ROI?

This handbook provides researchers and students with an overview of the field of sustainability indicators (SIs) as applied in the interdisciplinary field of sustainable development.

Narrative Fiction and Death: Dying Imagined offers a new perspective on the study of death in literature.

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies.

Concrete is the second most used building material in the world after water.

Advanced Bioseparation of Industrial Wastes: Sustainable Recovery of High-Value Metal Ions examines resource recovery from a variety of industrial waste streams, including sludge and wastewater, with an emphasis on both the fundamentals and the more advanced concepts involved.

This book presents the work of the RILEM TC 279-WMR, whose purpose was to facilitate the use of waste, marginal and secondary materials for roads by investigating the performance of road materials containing waste through round robin tests and the development of standard procedures for their selection, preparation, and use.

As with the best-selling 'Architects Pocket Book' this title includes everyday information which the architect/designer normally has to find from a wide variety of sources and which is not always easily to hand.

Druckglieder, wie Stützen und Wände, dienen primär zum vertikalen Lastabtrag und erfahren Biegemomente infolge der Verdrehungen angrenzender Bauteile wie Decken oder Unterzüge.

Materials Selection for Sustainability in the Built Environment: Environmental, Social and Economic Aspects presents the current state-of-the-art when it comes to the decision-making process for choosing construction materials to deliver sustainable construction projects.

This book conducts effective research on data-driven Structural Health Monitoring (SHM), and accordingly presents many novel feature extraction methods by time series analysis and signal processing, to extract reliable damage sensitive features from vibration responses.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on River Corridor Research and Management (2022).

If you own a car, use public transportation, go to work or school, use health care, shop or dine out, or are part of a metropolitan community, parking affects you, probably in more ways than you've thought about.

Any alteration of the natural processes occurring on a piece of land will have expected as well as unanticipated effects, and those effects have little regard for arbitrary human boundaries.

This book presents state-of-the-art research and practice in optimization routing, specifically the vehicle routing problem (VRP).

Deals with the design and execution of grouting works in all kinds of rock and soil, including jet grouting.

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice.

This book describes how manufacturing enterprises, by reinforcing their existing monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, can successfully face the ever-increasing pressure from internal and external environments to maintain their competitive advantage.

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies.

This set of essays brings together studies that challenge interpretations of the development of modernist architecture in Third World countries during the Cold War.

The landscapes of human habitation are not just perceived; they are also imagined.

The development of constitutive relations for geotechnical materials, with the help of numerical models, have increased notably the ability to predict and to interpret the mechanical behaviour of geotechnical works.

Reviewing the limitations of various planning options, this book addresses the debate on how to preserve open space in the context of a growing metropolis.

The City in Transgression explores the unacknowledged, neglected, and ill-defined spaces of the built environment and their transition into places of resistance and residence by refugees, asylum seekers, migrants, the homeless, and the disadvantaged.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (ICETMIE) 2019.

Within the international agri-food community at least four theoretical targets are attracting increasing attention.

The application of glass as a structural material may seem surprising initially, yet pioneering glass structures were first built two decades ago already.

Proceedings of a seminar held in Silsoe, UK, 26-28 March 1990.

**This title was originally published in 2007.

This book (in three volumes) comprises the proceedings of the Fifth Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (CTRG2019) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of transportation of people and freight.

Donald Shoup brilliantly overcame the challenge of writing about parking without being boring in his iconoclastic 800-page book The High Cost of Free Parking.

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