Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

Despite being South Africas capital city, Pretoria has often played a supporting role to bold and brash Johannesburg and Cape Towns cosmopolitan ch...

Lighting has the power to illuminate and enhance our experience within the built environment. The light that enables people to travel around their ...

My Relationship with Food - More than a cookbook. One womans journey to better eating. My Relationship with Food features 100 delicious recipes, ea...

Lighting can affect the health of people in buildings. This goes beyond the safety aspects of providing enough illumination to see by; lighting aff...

Although lighting products are becoming more efficient, the energy used for retail lighting has increased due to longer opening hours and higher li...

This volume brings together the proceedings of the conference From past experience to new approaches and synergies: The future of protection manage...

Quantifies the costs and carbon savings associated with very low carbon new building and improving efficiency through refurbishing existing buildin...

This new edition of A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings begins by asking why we need to control energy use in buildings and proceeds to discu...

Built by Spanish Franciscan missionaries in the seventeenth century, the magnificent mission church at Acoma Pueblo in west-central New Mexico is t...

Forest fires are a serious problem affecting many terrestrial ecosystems and causing substantial economic damage. Due to the increase of frequency ...

This guide to the basics of plumbing and central heating is designed for complete amateurs, and written by one of the most experienced plumbing tut...