Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

200 Contractual Problems and their Solutions This book examines 200 contractual problems which regularly arise on building and engineering projects...

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...

On February 29, 1960, a catastrophic earthquake devastated the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir, erasing it almost entirely and killing a third of i...

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...

Fifty bridges from all over the world to be crossed on foot or with one's imagination. Throughout history bridges have been used as a way to link p...

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...

Dockers Stories from the Second World War is a collection of several true stories, drawn from Henry Bradfords time as a Registered Docker in the Po...

Integrated water resources management advocates a coordinated approach for managing water resources in a way that balances social and economic need...

When a young English nobleman was thwarted in love he abandoned the court, retired to his estate near Manchester and built a canal to serve his coa...

The permanent way is a principal feature of all railways, but is little explored. Jim Pikes illustrated history fills this gap in railway literatur...

Once a prosperous region, the Ganga-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) river basininhabited by about a tenth of the worlds populationis currently one of the ...

In the region comprising Turkey and Greece, people have been using water from geothermal sources for bathing and washing of clothes since ancient t...

Victorian Britain was the world's industrial powerhouse. Its factories, mills and foundries supplied a global demand for manufactured goods. As Bri...