Building Construction & Materials

This new edition of the popular handbook is a practical companion for Clerks of Works, Site Inspectors and anyone with the responsibility of managi...

This set of 24 volumes gathers the proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) and the Affiliated Co...

Through research and proven practice, the aim of the International Conference of Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS) is t...

Als Reaktion auf die Havarie im japanischen Kernkraftwerk Fukushima Daiichi wird Deutschland als erstes Industrieland der Welt innerhalb von rund e...

This book frames the many-sided fragilities of Hunan Provinces Heritage. It originates from a ten-year-long international cooperation between Polit...

Health and safety legislation places significant responsibilities on employers and managers to protect the health and safety of their workers, but ...

A growing, living house, a building made of a plant seems to be a contradiction in terms. Nevertheless, the Khasi in eastern India already knew ho...

The potential of crime prevention, security and community safety is constrained by implementation failure. This book presents a carefully-designed ...

High loads with high dynamics in severe conditions can only be driven by fluid power mechanisms. Motion Control is often used as a description in v...

Of all building materials in the world, brick is one of the most enduring and ubiquitous. Traces of brickmaking date back to 7500 BC and fired bric...

Discover a geographic approach to resilience strategies for wildland fire. Wildfires claim lives, destroy structures, and devastate communities and...

This volume gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Engineering and Seismology (7ICEES), held in Antalya, Turkey ...