Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

Overheating in buildings is commonplace. This book describes how we can keep cool without conventional air-conditioning: improving comfort and prod...

Guidance on Part J has been revised to ensure that combustion appliances can continue to function safely in more airtight homes. A new requirement ...

The requirements of the Building Regulations Part L are difficult to assimilate and apply. This guide will explain the meaning and importance of ea...

Fundamentals of Fire Fighter Skills and Hazardous Materials Response, Fourth Edition provides the complete Fire Fighter I and Fire Fighter II train...

Editors Opinion is a compilation of columns Bobby Halton wrote for Fire Engineering magazine. Bobby penned the column for 18 years while serving as...

Command presence refers to the perceived credibility of an incident commander on an incident scene. Frank Ricci, lead plaintiff in the landmark Sup...

Materiality is a recurring and central issue in architecture. This book explains how materials are constructed, how they become cultural substances...

Authors Jerry Tracy, Jack J. Murphy and James J. Murtagh invite fire chiefs, fire officers, firefighters, fire protection engineers, building manag...

This guide is for local authorities, owners and others involved in the conservation of Georgian and Victorian / early 20th century terraced housing...

Fibrous plaster is a form of decorative plasterwork composed of plaster of Paris, reinforced with layers of hessian and secured within a timber fra...

Tunnels and Underground Cities: Engineering and Innovation meet Archaeology, Architecture and Art. Volume 7: Long and Deep Tunnels contains the con...

It is vital to ensure that your company complies with its contractual obligations. It is also vital to check whether the other parties are complyin...

Geotechnical Aspects of Underground Construction in Soft Ground comprises a collection of 118 papers, four reports on symposium themes, and four in...

Prepared by the Stainless Steel Specification Committee of the Codes and Standards Activities Division of the Structural Engineering Institute of A...

Despite the global movement to tackle plastic pollution, demand for plastics continues to rise. As the world transitions away from fossil fuels, pl...

Bridges touch all our lives - every day we are likely to cross a bridge, or go under one. How many of us stop to consider how the bridge stands up ...

The geology of the Thames Valley provides little good building stone, so the towns are made very largely of local brick. Reading is particularly re...

A Problem-Solving Approach to Aquatic Chemistry Enables civil and environmental engineers to understand the theory and application of aquatic equil...

What do we mean by net zero energy? Zero operating energy? Zero energy costs? Zero emissions? There is no one answer: approaches to net zero buildi...

Preserving the Vanishing City considers the unique challenges, conditions, and opportunities facing Clevelands historic preservation community duri...