Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

In his latest book, author Skip Coleman takes a comprehensive look at search for the fire service. Searching Smarter defines the three most commo...

Geoenvironmental Engineering and Geotechnics: Progress in Modeling and Applications (GSP 204), presents 39 papers that represent the latest develop...

Building for everyone that is the best definition of what lies behind the unwieldy concept of barrier-free design: the complete and total usabilit...

When a jobsite emergency arises, it's the people on the job that are the first responders. This gives those people the contractors, the constructi...

London has always been a bustling place of trade; once the docks teemed with men, ships and goods from all over the world. Now all has been transfo...

From muddy creek to naval-industrial powerhouse; from constructing wooden walls to building Dreadnoughts; from maintaining King Johns galleys to se...

This book elucidates the continuing conflict between the conservation of the townscapes and associated lifestyles that have evolved over centuries ...

Do you remember the docks? In its heyday, the Port of London was the biggest in the world. It was a sprawling network of quays, wharves, canals and...

From their mid-nineteenth-century fencing business the Harpers of Aberdeen developed a unique system of suspension that allowed their light foot su...

This is a student supplement associated with: Fire Protection Equipment and Systems, 1/e Ronald Spadafora ISBN: 0135028280

Charleston Saved 1979-1989 tells the remarkable story of how the home of key members of the Bloomsbury set was brought back from ruin and lovingly ...

The student workbook is design to help the user retain key chapter content. Included within this resource are chapter objective questions, key term...