Building Construction & Materials

Papers presented at the 7th in a series of interdisciplinary conferences on safety and security engineering are contained in this book. The papers ...

In this sumptuous portrait of the house known as the English Versailles, the Duke of Buccleuch sets the scene with a history of his ancestors, the ...

Hazardous Materials Monitoring and Detection Devices Third Edition is designed for a variety of industries. Although primarily written for emergenc...

We are living in a new urban age and its most tangible expression is the supertall: megastructures that are dramatically bigger, higher, and more a...

The marble workers laboring on the decades-long restoration of the Acropolis are the invisible force rebuilding one of the worlds most storied monu...

Dealing with color is a complex subject: influenced by standards, fashions, and trends, we derive our ideas and concepts from color theories, intui...

Designed for use within courses based on the Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Fire Prevention model curriculum, Principles o...

Widely used by heritage professionals, when specifying survey work throughout the historic environment sector, and by academics researching buildin...