Building Construction & Materials

This guidance is primarily intended for owners, occupiers, non-specialist building professionals, and others who take responsibility for historic b...

How do you find out about historic buildings and places? A good place to start is with visual evidence. Original drawings, topographical views, sur...

Arriving in the later 1890s, by the end of the First World War motor vehicles had ousted horses as the main means of transporting goods. In the int...

Until the 20th century, neither the capacity nor the means to inflict major damage upon the British Isles existed. This situation changed during th...

This document forms part of the Greater Lincolnshire Farmsteads Guidance, which aims to inform the sustainable development of historic farmsteads, ...

Public art can be enjoyed by us all. Everyone can play a part in valuing and caring for it. This guidance is aimed at anyone who manages or has res...

Post-Modernism is a movement and a style prevalent in architecture between about 1975 and 1990. It is characterised by its plurality, engagement wi...

Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4:  Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the fourth volum...

Today, software applications make cost estimation and management easier than ever before, but the role played by a construction professional who un...

Pervious Concrete Pavements: Design, Performance, and Applications provides both a comprehensive theoretical background and practical experiences o...

The popularity of natural building has grown by leaps and bounds, spurred by a grassroots desire for housing that is healthy, affordable, and envir...

Poor heat and moisture management are the enemies of durable, comfortable, and efficient housing, and good building design and construction starts ...

This revised and updated edition expands on its explanations of methods used to analyze waves in solid materials, such as the waves created by eart...

The Senegalese building collective Studio Suddo Neuve is calling for a paradigm shift in the West African construction sector. The collective has b...

«La beauté n'a rien à voir avec l'argent ou la finance. Elle demande de la créativité et de l'amour», affirme Anna Heringer. Sa vision fait mouche,...

This book gathers contributions presented at the 7th International Conference on Concrete Repair, Rehabilitation and Retrofitting (ICCRRR), held in...

People's desire to understand the environments in which they live is a natural one. People spend most of their time in spaces and structures design...

As slums were cleared after the Blitz, there was a pressing need for housing. Successive governments championed prefabrication as a speedy solution...

The book introduces the reader to machine learning in transportation. It describes techniques, applications and codes. It discusses both simple an...

Bauhaus Earth and Pontifical Academy of Sciences conference, June 2022 The built environment is a critical factor in the climate equation. Approxi...

The book presents the current state of the art for assessing the overheating risk of buildings. This includes the main effects and correlations re...