Building Construction & Materials

This book presents the papers given at the RILEM Seminar held at the Building Research Establishment, Garston, UK in October 1994. The book provide...

This book provides a detailed step-by-step guide to taking off building work. It is pitched at a basic introductory level especially suitable for t...

Managing building services contractors can prove to be a minefield. The most successful jobs will always be those where building site managers have...

Concert Design: The Road, The Craft, The Industry offers an exceptional journey though the world of concert design, exploring not only its unique d...

The urban climate is continuously deteriorating. Urban heat lowers the quality of urban life, increases energy needs, and affects the urban socio-e...

Specially written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Finishings contains accurate infor...

This book brings together over 40 papers presented at the 1992 International Construction Conflict Management & Resolution Conference held in M...

This book presents the proceedings of a major conference held in April 1991 at the Manchester Business School, examining current issues and new dir...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

Historic preservation, whether of landscapes or buildings, was an important development of the nineteenth century in many countries. There is howev...

Geomaterials are of enormous economic importance to the global construction industry. This is the first comprehensive guide to the petrography of g...

First published in 1999, this book provides answers to many of the problems associated with the design and application of auditory warnings. It rep...

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in ...

Maintenance helps to preserve the significance of a historic building, retaining both the structural integrity of the building fabric and its appea...

Architectural relics of nineteenth and twentieth-century colonialism dot cityscapes throughout our globalizing world, just as built traces of colon...

Recognised by the UNs Sustainable Development Goals as a measure to make cities inclusive, safe and resilient, conservation of natural and cultural...

First Published in 1992. This book arose as a result of the authors work on the review Solitary Vortices in Plasmas written for the Soviet Journal ...

Advances in Building Energy Research (ABER) offers state-of-the-art information on the environmental science and performance of buildings, linking ...

The main aim of this book is to develop and explore the value of new innovative digital content to help satisfy UNESCOs World Heritage nomination f...

Brickwork Level 1 has been adapted from John Hodgess classic Brickwork for Apprentices the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Desi...

A complete review of the fast-developing topic of high performance concrete (HPC) by one of the leading researchers in the field. It covers all asp...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Brickwork Level 2 has been adapted from John Hodges classic Brickwork for Apprentices the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Desig...

Marble is one of the great veins through the architectural tradition and fundamental building block of the Mediterranean world, from the Parthenon ...

Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carr...

As San Juan nears the 500th anniversary of its founding, Arleen Pabón-Charneco explores the urban and architectural developments that have taken pl...

This new and substantially revised edition of Heritage Planning: Principles and Process offers an extensive overview of the burgeoning fields of he...

Reinforced concrete (R/C) is one of the main building materials used worldwide, and an understanding of its structural performance under gravity an...

FABRIC[ated] examines fabric as a catalyst for innovation, reflection, change and transformation in architecture.This book explores the ways in whi...

Sustainability has become a driver of innovation in the built environment, but the affordability of sustainable building remains a significant chal...

Economic growth and socio-economic development are particuliarly important for developing countries, and the construction industry plays a central ...

There is an increasing number of buildings that require informed decisions to be made about their continued safety and serviceability. Although soc...

The Chair on Ecodesign for buildings and infrastructures was created by ParisTech in partnership with VINCI with the aim of developing evaluation a...

The sixth edition of The Construction of Houses builds on the success of the previous five editions. The book provides a comprehensive introduction...

This title was first published in 2002.Employing a range of case studies from three northern European countries - England, Sweden and The Netherlan...

Students setting out for a career in plumbing need a clear, concise and comprehensive textbook to help them study for their Technical Certificate a...

This book is the first to bring together academic and practitioner views of Value for Money (VFM). VFM has been used to assess whether or not an or...

As a collection of ecological evaluations and key building physics data, the Details for Passive Houses is a classic in every design library and th...

Brickwork Level 1 has been adapted from John Hodgess classic Brickwork for Apprentices the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Desi...

The interaction between engineering and the law is undergoing dramatic changes. Product liability, laws have been introduced in Japan, patent claim...

Renewable Energy Systems for Building Designers presents a comprehensive introduction to the latest resources and technologies used in high perform...

This book provides chemists with technical insight on pyrotechnics and explosives. It emphasizes basic chemical principles and practical, hands-on ...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

Behind Architectural Filters: Phenomena of Interference explores the active role of architectural filters in generating physically and sensory char...

This book provides invaluable guidance to all those with an interest in placemaking and the built environment, from those with no experience to tho...

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

UnDoing Buildings: Adaptive Reuse and Cultural Memory discusses one of the greatest challenges for twenty-first-century society: what is to be done...

Expanded and edited by Malcolm Thorpe, a former CITB Advisor, this latest edition incorporates all the latest industry-based requirements and techn...