Building Construction & Materials

Successful cost management and value engineering in construction is based on accurate and early estimations of cost, and this book is the quickest ...

This book demonstrates the enormous possibility of energy saving and reduction of CO2 emission achievable through zero-energy buildings, a building...

This monograph aims to provide theoretical and technical support for construction safety risk assessment in the construction of urban underground l...

This definitive reference on fire protection engineering, revised and significantly expanded for the Sixth Edition, features both new and substanti...

Space is an ambiguous and sometimes controversial term. Spatial planning is based on a delicate and changeable social balance, which is reflected i...

This book introduces the fundamental design concepts of Eurocode 3 for steel structures in building construction, and their practical application. ...

This book contains the proceedings of ICIDA 2023. The conference is a platform for deliberating the delivery and management of infrastructure in Af...

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held in Milan, Italy on April 7-12, 2024. Th...

This book gathers peer-reviewed contributions presented at the RILEM Spring Convention and Conference, held in Milan, Italy on April 7-12, 2024. Th...

This contributed volume is designed for fundamental understanding of fracture behavior of composites applied in core industrial sectors such as mec...

This book presents the state of the art on the weathering of polymers and plastic materials in outdoor applications, comprising natural weathering,...

This book gathers a selection of papers presented at the 6th International Scientific Conference Environmental Challenges in Civil Engineering, ECC...

This book examines how discarded marble heaps can be repurposed, in situ, to breathe new life into the landscape, offering solutions that are as in...

This open access book provides the latest fundamental and practical advances in reducing the built environments carbon footprint based on a collect...

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 42nd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2024,...

This book provides an overview to those most important modern and traditional methods of masonry analysis that are able to capture the discrete int...

This book comprises the select proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Formal Methods in Architecture (6FMA), A Coruña 2022. The contents...

This volume presents peer-reviewed contributions from the 10th International Conference on Experimental Vibration Analysis for Civil Engineering St...