Civil engineering, surveying and building

This present book mainly introduces the latest advancements in design and construction technologies of large-span concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) arch bridges and steel-reinforced concrete (SRC) arch bridges with a CFST rigid skeleton.

This book presents select proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Transportation Geotechnics (ICTG 2024).

Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration provides comprehensive and up-to-date overviews of knowledge, applications and research activities in a range of topics that are of current interest in the practice of engineering acoustics and vibration technology.

Written by experts, Sustainable Housing brings new perspectives on residential sustainability, using case studies of latest practice.

The ongoing global climate change triggered by greenhouse gas growth has had a significant effect on the microbial dynamics of plants and soils.

If architectural judgment were a city, a city of ideas and forms, then it is a very imperfect city.

Housing and Home Unbound pioneers understandings of housing and home as a meeting ground in which intensive practices, materials and meanings tangle with extensive economic, environmental and political worlds.

This Companion presents a distinctive approach to environmental planning by: situating the debate in its social, cultural, political and institutional context; being attentive to depth and breadth of discussions; providing up-to-date accounts of the contemporary practices in environmental planning and their changes over time; adopting multiple theoretical and analytical lenses and different disciplinary approaches; and drawing on knowledge and expertise of a wide range of leading international scholars from across the social science disciplines and beyond.

This book explores a new realm in data-based modeling with applications to hydrology.

The Handbook of RAMS in Railway Systems: Theory and Practice addresses the complexity in today's railway systems, which use computers and electromechanical components to increase efficiency while ensuring a high level of safety.

Since the early 1960s, the internationally acclaimed and highly distinguished Swedish geographer Gunnar Olsson has made substantial contributions to his own discipline.

The aim of this edited book volume is to present new concepts, and applications of Digital Twin and relevant tools in the built environment context.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Pavements (MAIREPAV10), held in Guimaraes, Portugal on July 24-26, 2024.

New Directions in Urban Planning in the Ancient Mediterranean assembles the most up-to-date research on the design and construction of ancient cities in the wider Mediterranean.

Increasing demand on industrial capacity has, as an unintended consequence, produced an accompanying increase in harmful and hazardous wastes.

This informative volume gathers contemporary accounts of the growth, influences on, and impacts of so-called gated communities, developments with walls, gates, guards and other forms of surveillance.

This is a comprehensive resource that integrates the application of innovative remote sensing techniques and geospatial tools in modeling Earth systems for environmental management beyond customary digitization and mapping practices.

This is a guide to both the basics and the details of tall building design, delving into the rudimentary aspects of design that an architect of a tall office building must consider, as well as looking at the rationale for why and how a building must be built the way it is.

This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of wind engineering, as presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the XVII Conference of the Italian Association for Wind Engineering (IN-VENTO), held in Milan, Italy on September 4-7, 2022.

This book highlights key ideas and factors to coach and guide professionals involved in learning about Sterile Manufacturing and operational requirements.

You are a great designer, but no-one knows.

This volume represents the current knowledge on the effect of SCMs (slag, fly ash, silica fume, limestone powder, metakaolin, natural pozzolans, rice husk ash, special SCMs, ternary blends) on the properties of fresh and hardened concrete (e.

Architectural Design Strategies for Saving Energy in Buildings: An Architect's View employs an architect's perspective, defined equally as art and engineering science, to the contemporary concept of designing buildings that use less energy.

This book focuses on rethinking working and living spaces and understanding how "e;greening"e; can make them healthier and their occupants happier.

A cognitive history of the emergence of modern architecture.

Structural control is an approach aimed at the suppressing unwanted dynamic phenomena in civil structures.

The volume will include selected and reviewed papers from CONAT - International Congress of Automotive and Transport Engineering to be held in Brasov, Romania, in October 2016.

Being the best agent or surveyor does not always mean that you will be the best manager or leader.

3D Concrete Printing Technology provides valuable insights into the new manufacturing techniques and technologies needed to produce concrete materials.

This book explores the applications of virtual reality technologies in building design and offsite construction.

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

In writing The Settlement Patterns of Britain Nick Green was inspired by the short story genre.

The green economy is widely seen as a potential solution to current global economic and environmental crises, and a potential mechanism by which sustainable development might be achieved in practice.

Heating and Cooling with Ground-Source Heat Pumps in Moderate and Cold Climates, Two-Volume Set focuses on the use of very low-temperature geothermal energy for heating and cooling residential, institutional, and industrial buildings, and aims to increase the design community's awareness and knowledge of the benefits, design, and installation requirements of commercial/institutional building ground-source heat pumps (GSHP).

Detailing a number of structural analysis problems such as residual welding stresses and distortions and behaviour of thin-walled rods loaded in bending, this text also explores mathematical function minimization methods, expert systems and optimum design of welded box beams.

People and Spaces: Experience, Ethics, and Intent examines the dynamic relationship between built environments and human behavior in today's rapidly evolving world.

This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants.

The fully revised fourth edition of this successful textbook fills a void which will arise when British designers start using the European steel code EC3 instead of the current steel code BS5950.

This well established introductory work covers physical basics, principles of operation, computation models and control methods of thermographic systems and their various modern fields of application.

The only books split to cover the essential knowledge and practical activities for Carpentry and Joinery at Levels 2 and 3.

This book introduces new smart connection systems which can be used in aseismic building design in order to control inter-story drifts and to reduce residual displacements.

Society has become more educated on the impacts on human health and environment, and there has been a noticeable decrease in the acceptance of this risk by workers and the public.

Für Energiesparmaßnahmen im Wohnung​sbestand gibt es zahlreiche Möglichkeiten.

Aquatic habitats supply a wide range of vital ecosystem benefits to cities and their inhabitants.

This book seeks to enhance understanding of the impacts of project setup and its implementation environment on project performance by leveraging information from the study of a rich set of European transport infrastructure project cases.

Stress, Strain, and Structural Dynamics: An Interactive Handbook of Formulas, Solutions, and MATLAB Toolboxes, Second Edition is the definitive reference to statics and dynamics of solids and structures, including mechanics of materials, structural mechanics, elasticity, rigid-body dynamics, vibrations, structural dynamics, and structural controls.

Improved geospatial instrumentation and technology such as in laser scanning has now resulted in millions of data being collected, e.