Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

Each new print copy of Fire Inspector: Principles and Practice also includes Navigate 2 Advantage Access that unlocks a complete eBook, Study Cente...

In Blue-Green Cities, Colin Thorne and the team of authors, demonstrate how urban flood risk management based on Blue-Green approaches and infrastr...

With easy-to-understand explanations of the basic concepts, Seismic Design of Foundations examines recent and worldwide research outputs and post-e...

From its creation in January 2012, The Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture ...

Modern Apartment Design provides guidelines to the design of modern apartment buildings as well as a summation of current cutting-edge practice in ...

This book will provide readers with an understanding of the employability concept and develop an employability skills improvement model to enhance ...

This book is devoted to the seafront, the space between the seaward ends of seaside piers and the first line of buildings. The seafront is a place ...

This book includes a collection of research and practical papers from international research and technology activities on recent developments in in...

This book describes recent studies of soil behaviour in strong ground motion one of the most important and problematic issues in engineering seism...

This set of 23 volumes gathers the proceedings of the International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE) and the Affiliated Co...

Der Einsatz von natürlichen Rohstoffen ist heute in der Architektur bedeutender denn je. Während der konstruktive Holzbau bereits fest in der Archi...

This book is a short yet rigorous course on a new paradigm in soil mechanics, one that holds that soil deformation occurs as a simple friction-base...

This open access book delves into the topic of monitoring the effectiveness of building renovation policies within the European Union (EU) using in...

The escalating interdependecy of nations drives global geopolitics to shift ever more quickly. Societies seem unable to control any change that aff...

This book analyses shipping markets and their interdependence. This ground-breaking text develops a new macroeconomic approach to maritime economic...

A Primer to Theoretical Soil Mechanics is about adapting continuum mechanics to granular materials. The field of continuum mechanics offers many fr...

The purpose of this book is to help engineers and scientists better understand contaminated sediment sites and identify and design remedial approac...