Civil engineering, surveying and building

High Resolution Pressuremeters and Geotechnical Engineering focuses on pressuremeters with internal transducers that allow measurement of strength, stiffness and in situ reference stress.

In a simple, straightforward manner, this book presents most of the major process units for wastewater treatment, addressing what the unit is and how it basically works.

Innovative Bridge Design Handbook: Construction, Rehabilitation, and Maintenance, Second Edition, brings together the essentials of bridge engineering across design, assessment, research and construction.

MOX fuel, a mixture of weapon-grade plutonium and natural or depleted uranium, may be used to deplete a portion of the world's surplus of weapon-grade plutonium.

The first comprehensive tool-kit for coastal planners and those aiming to achieve effective coastal management worldwide.

Bringing together an interdisciplinary and international group of researchers working on a wide variety of cities throughout Asia, Latin America and Europe, this book addresses, rethinks and, in some cases, abandons the notions of formal and informal urbanism.

The integration of Human Factors in Land Use Planning and Urban Design (LUP & UD) is an exciting and emerging interdisciplinary field.

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.

This book examines the nature of the 'energy curriculum' in Arctic Higher Education and provides invaluable data and new models to assess levels of Sustainable Development Literacy.

This reference book discusses the applications of microorganisms as a crucial solution for the sustainable management of toxic pollutants.

The book covers the topic of the role of public sector in the economic and territorial development across several dimensions of spatial planning, e.

Dieses bewährte Lehrbuch wendet sich in erster Linie an Studierende des Bauingenieurwesens.

This textbook deals jointly with theoretical and practical concepts within geomatics in civil engineering, based on the global understanding of its use.

Over a third of the current 7.

This text looks at mineral fibers, their occurrence, production, properties and their uses.

There is enormous current interest in urban food systems, with a wide array of policies and initiatives intended to increase food security, decrease ecological impacts and improve public health.

Textile materials shed microfibres during different phases of their life cycle.

Well established as a valuable source of reference for architects, landscape architects, professionals and students designing external works.

Concrete Design covers concrete design fundamentals for architects and engineers, such as tension, flexural, shear, and compression elements, anchorage, lateral design, and footings.

This new volume in the Innovations and Challenges in Micro Irrigation series covers an array of technologies to estimate evapotranspiration and to evaluate parameters that are needed in the management of micro irrigation, with worldwide applicability to irrigation management in agriculture.

The purpose of this book is twofold.

This invaluable volume consists of five articles covering a wide range of topics in coastal engineering.

Energy performance feedback is an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis.

Building engineering is a complex and constantly evolving branch.

This book includes selected papers from the fifth International Conference on Smart Vehicular Technology, Transportation, Communication and Applications (VTCA 2022), held in online mode during December 24-26, 2022.

The mechanical tests presented in this book are essential for determining the basic properties of the materials used.

Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires.

This book explores how cultural considerations can improve policymaking to achieve mainstream solar energy in small, tropical islands.

Sustainability assessment is now emerging as a more transparent, comprehensive, integrated and far-sighted approach to decision making.

Up to date and current with the latest technology, Spellman's Standard Handbook for Wastewater Operators: Volume II, Intermediate Level, Second Edition provides a study guide and resource in a compact format.

The book deals with the geotechnical analysis and design of foundation systems for high-rise buildings and other complex structures with a distinctive soil-structure interaction.

The question of inclusion of local effects in the analysis of structures is currently one of prime importance for engineering design.

Waste Materials in Construction contains papers from the first international conference on the environmental implications of construction with waste materials held in Maastricht in November, 1991.

This book explores the differences in cultural attributes and management factors to enable managers working for Japanese contractors to reduce misunderstandings and misinterpretations when communicating with project team members from different cultural backgrounds.

A sleeker, more comprehensive approach to construction projects BIM and Construction Management, Second Edition is a complete integration guide, featuring practical advice, project tested methods and workflows, and tutorials for implementing Building Information Modeling and technology in construction.

The Practical Handbook of Well Control teaches readers to safeguard well safety and integrity in drilling well engineering.

This book highlights the characteristics, aims, and applications of microorganisms as a crucial solution for sustainable management of the toxic pollutants in aquatic ecosystems, soil, and air.

There is a pressing need for rationalization and standardization of test procedures for metals for use in all types of structure.

Innerstädtische Schienenverkehrssysteme stoßen bei steigender Verkehrsnachfrage zunehmend an ihre Grenzen.

Over three billion metric tons of cement are produced annually worldwide, making concrete the most extensively used construction material.

This book puts forward an institutional explanation of the recent dynamics of foreign direct investment (FDI) in China.

This book bridges the gap between academic and professional field pertaining to design of industrial reinforced cement concrete and steel structures.

The scale of ecological crises made us realize that every kind of politics has always been cosmopolitics, politics of a cosmos.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 14th International Symposium, PRADS 2019, held in Yokohama, Japan, in September 2019.

This unique book that deals with project communication management in complex environments, taking a leaf from China's experience with a major earthquake in Sichuan, would be a timely contribution to fill this lacuna.

Originally published in 1977.

Many more people are coming to live in earthquake-prone areas, especially urban ones.

Though few now doubt the severity of the environmental problems faced by humanity there is still resistance from businesses, developers, architects, planners and government when it comes to making the step changes necessary to make our lifestyles sustainable.

This handbook provides a comprehensive global survey and assessment of the law and policy relating to homelessness prevention.