Building Construction & Materials

Brickwork Level 3 has been adapted from John Hodge's classic Brickwork for Apprentices the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Desi...

Brickwork Level 3 has been adapted from John Hodge's classic Brickwork for Apprentices the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Desi...

Eco House Plans contains more than 300 floor and elevations plans, as well as constructive details of 36 ecological architecture projects. The spec...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

This new edition of Civil Engineering: Supervision and Management updates and revises the best practical guide for on-site engineers. Written from ...

Extending your home? New kitchen or bathroom? Planning to decorate? If you're taking on a job like this you need to know three things - can you do ...

The Chair Eco-design of buildings and infrastructure, a partnership between three engineering colleges (MINES ParisTech, Ecole des Ponts ParisTech ...

Practice management for Land, Construction and Property Professionals presents the expert views and practical experience of researchers and practit...

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volu...

Housing is a major contributor to CO2 emissions in Europe and America today and the construction of new homes offers an opportunity to address this...

The proceedings of the CIB W65 Symposium on the Organization and Management of Construction conference are presented here and in the companion volu...

There is no widely recognized method for producing specifications of repair, improvement and conversion work, yet consistent documentation is funda...

The BDA Guide to Successful Brickwork is the definitive practical guide to obtaining successful results in brickwork construction. Written by a tea...

Historic reconstructions have been a consistent part of the historic preservation and heritage conservation movements in the United States and Cana...

The first European edition of Francis DK Chings classic visual guide to the basics of building construction. For nearly four decades, the US public...

Architectural Design Strategies for Saving Energy in Buildings: An Architect's View employs an architects perspective, defined equally as art and e...

Dynamics of Civil Structures, Volume 2: Proceedings of the 41st IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2023, the second volume o...

Essentials of Construction Planning and Scheduling is a practical handbook on the planning of construction projects, from tender through to project...

This book shows, for the first time, the indispensable role of the Burford Masons, a group of master masons from the historic quarries around Burfo...

Heating and Cooling with Ground-Source Heat Pumps in Cold and Moderate Climates: Fundamentals and Basic Concepts covers fundamentals and design pri...

Advances in Flowmeter Technology surveys the full range of modern flowmeters for product managers, strategic planners, engineers, distributors, and...

This book comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Recent Advances in Civil Engineering (RACE 2022). The contents of this bo...

This book offers architects strategies in the design and manufacturing of custom, repetitively manufactured building components.A total of 36 case ...

The book provides an overview of the latest achievements and engineering solutions in earthquake engineering. This edition features articles publis...

This edition includes articles presented at the 7th International Conference on Materials Engineering and Applications (ICMEA 2024) and the 9th Int...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

The transformative power of urban design in shaping our experiences within high-rise cities takes center stage in Humanizing the High-Rise City: Po...

This book discusses the scientific framework of thermoplastic deformation of structural metallic materials, in particular dual-phase steels and int...

The publication contains research articles presented at the International Scientific Applied Conference Problems of Emergency Situations (PES 2024,...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Drawing on the authors extensive fieldwork in the Dong areas in southwest China, this book presents a detailed picture of the Dongs buildings and t...

Despite occupational diseases in construction contributing to a significant proportion of fatalities, and permanent and temporary incapacities, the...

Recycled Aggregate Concrete (RAC) as a sustainable material is gaining increasing importance in the construction industry. This book discusses prop...

This book focuses on the contemporary fired clay brick to explore themes of home and house, homeownership, materiality, and sense of place. It inve...

The uncertainties or randomness of the material properties of structural components are of serious concern to engineers. Structural analysis is usu...

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant addit...

Use of the NEC4 suite of contracts continues to grow and the new edition of Understanding the NEC4 Term Service Contract includes significant addit...

Building information modelling (BIM) uses a combination of technologies and resources to capture, manage, analyse, and display a digital representa...

Under fire conditions, the strong interactions in structures result in different load-carrying mechanisms and drastic redistributions of internal f...

This updated, second edition adds more reviews of modern four-winged aircraft belonging to convertiplanes, Medium Altitude Long Endurance UAVs, and...

This book contains selected articles from the fourth International Conference on Geotechnical Engineering-Iraq 2024 (ICGE-2024) held on April 1718,...

This book is a great opportunity to make the research community discuss the dangerous environmental challenges such as climate change and its huge ...