Ciencias y técnicas / Tecnología e Ingeniería / Arquitectura y construcción / Métodos y materiales

Green Building Materials: A Guide to Product Selection and Specification

de Ross Spiegel & Dru Meadows

The ultimate user's manual to green building materials

To properly select and specify green building materials, successful architects need authoritative, real-world advice on how to select and use nontoxic, recycled,...

Industrial Engineering Projects

de The Joint Development Board

This handbook provides a clear explanation of the commercial, contractual and statutory aspects of a capital project in the process industries from feasability studies, through commissioning/contract; to construction...

Steel Structures

de Hassan Al Nageim & T J MacGinley

Covers the fundamentals of practical structural engineering and structural steel design and moves on to look more closely at a number of different types of built structures and their design in useful practical...

Diffusion of Chloride in Concrete

de L Mejlbro & E Poulsen

Primarily aimed at practising engineers engaged in analysis and design of concrete structures exposed to a chloride laden environment, Diffusion of Chloride in Concrete is also a useful reference for engineering...

Bridge Mangmnt:Proc 3rd Confrc

de Professor JE Harding & Parke Gerard

This volume contains the papers presented at the Third International Conference on Bridge Management, held at the University of Surrey, Guildford, UK on 14-17 April 1996.

Dynamics of Pavement Structures

de Gustav Martincek

This book presents a rigorous treatment of the fundamental, mathematical behaviour of pavement structures under dynamic loading. The topic is of growing importance in economic design of aircraft runways and...

Earthquake Resistant Concrete Structures

de Andreas Kappos & GG Penelis

This book introduces practising engineers and post-graduate students to modern approaches to seismic design, with a particular focus on reinforced concrete structures, earthquake resistant design of new buildings...

Engineering Surveying Technology

de TJM Kennie & G Petrie

This book examines the major changes in the technology now used for the measurement and processing of topographic and non-topographic spatial data, with emphasis on the new and emerging technology and its applications....

Ferrocement

de P Nedwell & RN Swamy

Ferrocement is a versatile construction material, with applications in low cost housing, rehabilitation and repair of structures. This book presents the latest developments in research and application of the...

Fiber-Reinforced Cements and Concretes

de Colin D Johnston

This book summarizes and simplifies the results of a considerable body of research and practical experience with a wide range of fiber-reinforced cementitious composites.

Formwork

de Geoffrey Lee & Peter McAdam

no optimise formwork costs and minimise the time for its construction, the contractor needs to understand the guiding principles of safe and efficient formwork construction. He must also have some insight into...

Integrated Design and Environmental Issues in Concrete Technology

de K Sakai

The two themes of integration of structural and durability design, and integration of concrete technologies in relation to global environmental issues are drawn together in this book.

Reflective Cracking in Pavements

de R Degeimbre & L Francken

This book forms the Proceedings of the Second International RILEM Conference held in Liege in March 1993. It follows the successful first conference held in 1989 and focusses on two main topics: the current...

Law, Wealth and Power in China

de John Garrick

This book examines the law reforms of contemporary China in light of the Party-state's ideological transformation and the political economy that shapes these reforms.

Hydrology in Practice

de Shaw & Black

Hydrology in Practice is the classic introductory textbook for engineering hydrology students who go into practice. This fourth edition covers the methods of the Flood Estimation Handbook, and provides completely...

Revit Architecture 2010: No Experience Required

de Eric Wing

Author and Revit Architecture expert Eric Wing walks you through designing, documenting, and presenting a four-story office building. The continuous tutorial begins with the Revit interface and standard conventions...

Profiled Sheet Roofing and Cladding: A Guide to Good Practice

de Nick Selves, J. Shanahan & Colin Sproul

This guide, the third edition of the NFRCs guide to good practice, is an accessible and practical code of practice in the application, design and installation of profiled sheeting and wall and roof cladding....

Ventilation of Buildings

de H.B. Awbi

Hazim Awbi's Ventilation of Buildings has become established as the definitive text on the subject. This new, thoroughly revised, edition builds on the basic principles of the original text drawing in the results...

Material Strategies in Digital Fabrication

de Christopher Beorkrem

Author Christopher Beorkrem shows how material performance drives the digital fabrication process and determines technique. He has recreated and dissected thirty-six of the most progressive works of architecture...

Translucent Building Skins: Material Innovations in Modern and Contemporary Architecture

de Scott Murray

Exploring the design of innovative building enclosure systems (or skins) in contemporary architecture and their precedents in earlier twentieth century modern architecture, this book examines the tectonics,...