Civil engineering, surveying and building

This is a one-stop book for knowing everything important about building structures.

Bridges, the least known and understood of China's many wonders, are one of its most striking and resilient feats of architectural prowess.

Für öffentliche Gebäude gibt es eine vielzahl von Möglichkeiten wie mechanische Lüftungsanlagen für ein gutes Raumklima sorgen können.

This book traces the history and implementation of regulation programs for state crude oil production.

Research in vibration response control deals not only with prevention of catastrophic failures of structures during natural or accidental/manmade hazards but also ensures the comfort of occupants through serviceability.

The book examines environmental issues and their solutions with advancements in biotechnology and nanotechnology.

This Encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work covering the interdisciplinary facets of security.

With industrial systems becoming ever more mechanized and reliant on advanced technology, the complexity of equipment, especially in risky industries, is increasing on a daily basis.

State-of-the-art nonlinear computational analysis of shells, nonlinearities due to large deformations and nonlinear material behavior, alternative shell element formulations, algorithms and implementational aspects, composite and sandwich shells, local and global instabilities, optimization of shell structures and concepts of shape finding methods of free from shells.

Our world is constantly changing, governed by continuity, dynamic interactions and boundary conditions.

Set on a hillside near Cluny, in a region associated with religious institutions and sacred architecture (including Le Corbusier's La Tourette), Le Carmel de la Paix, designed by Jose Luis Sert, remains tranquilly unvisited and quietly erased from architectural history.

Daylighting and Integrated Lighting Design provides architects, building designers, and students clear direction for the successful inclusion of daylight and integrated electric light in buildings.

Although urban allotment gardening dates back to the nineteenth century, it has recently undergone a renaissance of interest and popularity.

Aerodynamics of Wind Turbines is the established essential text for the fundamental solutions to efficient wind turbine design.

The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication traces central debates within the burgeoning interdisciplinary research on mediated cities and urban communication.

The projects in the Future Megacities programme gain valuable experiences in developing energy efficient standards and urban structures with adequate conditions to treat resources with care and avoid unnecessary emissions.

The book explains sound insulation in buildings at a level suitable for both graduate students and expert consultants.

Hydrology and dams are two fields that are obviously closely related.

This book is for those interested in number systems, abstract algebra, and analysis.

This book offers all important industrial communication systems for buildings in one single book!

Currently, anthropogenic activities have caused unprecedented destruction of the environment at alarming rates, leading to undesirable alterations in air, land, and water.

This book discusses recent developments in renewable and sustainable materials from a green technology perspective and how these materials interact with the environment.

This book provides a clear guide for practitioners looking to establish or already conducting research projects in a practice context and graduate students looking to support their studies and role within practice.

The economic paradigms currently dominating the world are not sustainable.

Originally published in 1891, this volume was a companion volume to the Elementary and Advanced volumes of Building Construction and Drawing.

This book illustrates the ways in which communities can strengthen the links and set the stage for long-term partnerships between sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural community development initiatives.

This book gathers the peer-reviewed papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Protection of Historical Constructions (PROHITECH), held in Athens, Greece, on October 25-27, 2021.

All the essential calculations required for basic electrical installation workThe Electrical Installation Calculations series has proved an invaluable reference for over forty years, for both apprentices and professional electrical installation engineers alike.

This book on urban design extends and develops the widely accepted 'compact city' solution.

This ninth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales.

Protecting our environment has never been more important than it is today in the wake of climate change and the ever-increasing demand on natural resources due to the expanding world population.

Psalm 147 lobt Gott nicht nur als Retter Israels, sondern auch als Herrn über die Natur.

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have an important role in marine conserva- tion programmes around the world.

Elevated temperatures are known to affect the properties of both fresh and hardened concrete.

Comprehensively covers the basic principles and practice of Operational Modal Analysis (OMA).

Dieses Buch vermittelt die notwendigen volkswirtschaftlichen und privatwirtschaftlichen Grundlagen zur Beurteilung wasserwirtschaftlicher Projekte.

Bridge design and construction technologies have experienced remarkable developments in recent decades, and numerous long-span bridges have been built or are under construction all over the world.

Architects, landscape architects and urban designers experiment with color and lighting effects in their daily professional practice.

This third edition of the bestselling Landscape Architect's Pocket Book, written by leading practitioners, incorporates updates and revisions to environmental and building regulations, contracts, and a range of design guidelines including materials, SuDS, environmental impact, and landscape character assessment.

The book deals with the stochastic strength of glass and the application to the automotive windscreen.

Actively Caring for Safety: The Psychological Science of Injury Prevention outlines proactive applications of applied behavioural science and humanism (i.

Real Estate, Construction and Economic Development in Emerging Market Economies examines the relationships between real estate and construction sectors and explores how each sector, and the relationships between them, affect economic development in emerging market economies (EMEs).

Maths for the Building Trades provides students of all ages with an easy-to-understand guide to the fundamental mathematics that is required in their area of study and beyond.

Ornamental Lakes traces the history of lakes in England, from their appearance in the early eighteenth century, through their development in the 1750s, and finally to their decline in the nineteenth century.

Architecture Post Mortem surveys architecture's encounter with death, decline, and ruination following late capitalism.

This book deals with the management and valuation of energy storage in electric power grids, highlighting the interest of storage systems in grid applications and developing management methodologies based on artificial intelligence tools.