Civil engineering, surveying and building

In the last decades, the technology of dam protection has undergone major advancements.

A comprehensive and highly practical overview of project risk management emphasising pragmatic solutions and user-friendly methods without advanced mathematical techniques Managing Project Risks provides a comprehensive treatment of project risk management, offering a systematic but easy-to-follow approach.

Coronavirus has dramatically changed the world as we knew it in many diverse ways.

This book presents a theoretical framework for the quantitative calculation of casualties and damage from jet fires caused by high-pressure gas leaks in pressure vessels or pipelines.

The book exposes three alternative and competing approaches to uncertainty analysis in engineering.

Industrial assets (such as railway lines, roads, pipelines) are usually huge, span long distances, and can be divided into clusters or segments that provide different levels of functionality subject to different loads, degradations and environmental conditions, and their efficient management is necessary.

This is a comprehensive guide to all types of natural and man made disasters and their effect on buildings.

The need for large-scale bridges is constantly growing worldwide, as the expansion of transport infrastructures with rail roads and high-speed lines is an important current task in many regions.

Calcium and magnesium are abundant in groundwater, but the role of groundwater as the essential source of these important nutrients is very often neglected.

This book presents the work of the RILEM Technical Committee 276-DFC: Digital fabrication with cement-based materials.

Nonlinear Structures & Systems, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 38th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2020, the first volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Cement production is known to be a polluting and energy-intensive industry.

A clear and concise reference guide on integrating fire protection design, Fire Protection Engineering in Building Design encompasses not only the basic information on the functions, design, and applications of fire protection systems; but also reveals how this information can and should be integrated with every other major engineering discipline.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.

This volume uses the art of Rome to help us understand the radical historical break between the fundamental ancient pre-supposition that there is a natural world or cosmos situating human life, and the equally fundamental modern emphasis on human imagination and its creative power.

The greatest challenge of our time is to build a world based on the sustainable use of renewable power.

'It is true that "e;Nothing is more practical than a theory"e; Provided - however - That the assumptions on which the theory is founded Are well understood.

Across the world, the risks of wildfires are increasing and expanding.

Environmental Hydrology presents a unified approach to the role of hydrology in environmental planning and management, emphasizing the consideration of the hydrological continuum in determining the fate and migration of chemicals as well as micro-organisms in the environment, both below the ground as well as on it.

Zu Beginn einer Krankenhausplanung sollte eine sorgfältige Analyse und Planung aller Faktoren stehen, die einen effizienten und zukunftsfähigen Krankenhausbetrieb ermöglichen.

A comprehensive review of the material behavior of concrete under dynamic loads, especially impact and impuls, opens the volume.

This book offers a practical guide to embedding energy modelling in architectural practice.

Futures in Mechanics of Structures and Materials is a collection of peer-reviewed papers presented at the 20th Australasian Conference on the Mechanics of Structures and Materials (ACMSM20, University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia, 2 - 5 December 2008) by academics, researchers and practicing engineers mainly from Austral

This book comprises the proceedings of the Fifth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2019) focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures.

How to build and maintain strong data organizations the Dummies way Data Governance For Dummies offers an accessible first step for decision makers into understanding how data governance works and how to apply it to an organization in a way that improves results and doesn't disrupt.

This new edition of Air Pollution Control Equipment Selection Guide builds upon the successes of previous editions that developed a detailed discussion on various technologies used for air pollution control.

This title was first published in 2000.

This book addresses issues of space, historicity, architecture and textuality by focusing on Singapore's singular position in the region and as a global city.

This book takes a data-first approach to framing the built environment sector's unique challenges and how industry can address them through better use of data.

This book highlights the latest advancements in the use of automated systems in the design, construction, operation and future of the built environment and its occupants.

Winner of the 2006 Alice Davis Hitchcock Award!

Building Information Modeling (BIM) ist eine innovative Technologie, die auf der durchgängigen Verwendung digitaler Bauwerksmodelle für alle Planungs-, Ausführungs- und Betriebsprozesse beruht.

The manufacturing system is going through substantial changes and developments in light of Industry 4.

Construction Management is a wide ranging discipline, but ultimately it is a demanding, hands-on discipline concerned with the management of people, plant and materials, all mobilised to complete a building project safely, on time, on budget and to the client s satisfaction.

China's rise as an economic superpower has been inescapable.

By examining the motif of ruination in a variety of late-eighteenth-century domains, this book portrays the moral aesthetic of the culture of sensibility in Europe, particularly its negotiation of the demands of tradition and pragmatism alongside utopian longings for authenticity, natural goodness, self-governance, mutual transparency, and instantaneous kinship.

This book is intended as a reference book for advanced graduate students and research engineers in block-in-matrix rocks (bimrocks) or soil and rock mixtures (SRMs) or rock and soil aggregate (RSA).

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Trends and Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (TRACE 2022).

For engineers, applied scientists and students working in flow-induced instability and vibration in wind and ocean engineering and the power industry.

The text comprehensively discusses computational models including artificial neural networks, agent-based models, and decision field theory for reliability engineering.

This book tackles the question of how we can manage flood-related disaster risks, such as from typhoons, monsoons, and torrential rain, which have been intensified by climate change and have generated unprecedented floods, landslides and debris flows worldwide.

This Handbook is the first to explore the emergent field of 'placemaking' in terms of the recent research, teaching and learning, and practice agenda for the next few years.

Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Analyse der EU-Taxonomie-Kriterien für eine Kreislaufwirtschaft und die Taxonomiekonformität im Wohnungsbau.

This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia.

This comprehensive treatment of the subject assesses the performance characteristics needed for application plus the preformance properties of generic sealants.

A structural design book with a code-connected focus, Principles of Structural Design: Wood, Steel, and Concrete, Second Edition introduces the principles and practices of structural design.

Das Buch enthält eine umfassende Darstellung aller Aspekte des Gebäudebrandschutzes.

The papers in this volume present basic concepts and new developments in failure and damage analysis with focus on advanced materials such as composites, laminates, sandwiches and foams, and also new metallic materials.