Building Construction & Materials

This guidance is intended to promote the appreciation of historic military airfields and their associated buildings, so that their significance is ...

Nonconformist has long been used as a description of Protestant Christians in England and Wales who were not part of the Church of England. Among t...

A collection of papers that address such issues as model limits and reliability, emerging expert systems and integrated gas and solid phase combust...

Microalgae architecture has gained awareness for its biotechnical potential to achieve net-zero energy architecture while also promoting ecological...

What is professional negligence? What are the obligations of construction professionals in contract and in tort? In what circumstances might the di...

The Real Estate Solar Investment Handbook explains the business case for property professionals to pursue solar projects. A projects value is deter...

Architecture and Armed Conflict is the first multi-authored scholarly book to address this theme from a comparative, interdisciplinary perspective....

The Pedagogies of Re-Use captures the amazing digital gathering of students, academics, practitioners, and activists that happened at the Internati...

The widely acclaimed and beautifully illustrated Understanding Architecture is now revised and expanded in its fourth edition, vividly examining th...

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...