Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development provides a concise summary of the real estate development process, allowing the reader to lear...

Current Perspectives and New Directions in Mechanics, Modelling and Design of Structural Systems comprises 330 papers that were presented at the Ei...

Brickwork has long dominated architecture in almost every country in the world. And no wonder, it can be found virtually everywhere, considering th...

Local heritage whether buildings, monuments, sites, places, areas, historic parks and gardens or other designed landscapes plays an essential rol...

Bearing Capacity of Roads, Railways and Airfields includes the contributions to the 10th International Conference on the Bearing Capacity of Roads,...

The definitive guide to the critical issue of slope stability and safety Soil Strength and Slope Stability, Second Edition presents the latest thi...

This exceptionally produced trainee guide features a highly illustrated design, technical hints and tips from industry experts, review questions an...

In the later 20th century ever-larger, and sometimes architecturally ambitious, commercial office buildings proliferated in many cities. The dereg...

This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating solid masonry walls. Traditional solid wall const...

The drive towards environmentally friendly buildings and infrastructure has led to a growing interest in providing design solutions underpinned by ...

Mike Rubins conversational style and self-deprecating humor appeal to healthcare providers and patients, educators and students, employers, and emp...

The aftermath of September 11, 2001, brought the subject of engineering-failure forensics to public attention as had no previous catastrophe. In ke...

Hazardous Wastes An illuminating, problem-solving approach to source area analysis, environmental chemodynamics, risk assessment, and remediation I...

A comprehensive introduction to strain-based structural health monitoring of civil structures, with focus on measurement and data analysis Introduc...

The early nineteenth century was a time of great change as the United States transitioned from the colonial era to the industrial age. Benjamin Wri...

Prepared by the Task Committee for the Design and Performance of Tall Buildings of the Structural Engineering Institute of ASCEDesign and Performan...

COST is an intergovernmental framework for European Cooperation in Science and Technology, allowing the coordination of nationally-funded research ...

Since it is now clear that in the future many raw materials will only be available to us in limited quantities, scientists have for some time been ...

The steady growth in the number of vehicles on the road, heavy reliance on coal, use of dirty fuels for residential combustion, and extensive open ...

Bridge Maintenance, Safety, Management and Life-Cycle Optimization contains the lectures and papers presented at IABMAS 2010, the Fifth Internation...

The Atlas of Fantastic infrastructures deals with the characterization of architecture, media and digital infrastructure. In concrete terms, it dea...