Civil Engineering, Surveying & Building

In addition to its practical functions, such as helping to optimize safety and security, lighting also has another principal task creating emotion...

Handbook - Soil mix wallsFor several decades now, the deep mixing method has been used for ground improvement works. A more recent application is t...

Architecture is experienced as one roams about in it and walks through it So true is this that architectural works can be divided into dead and liv...

Companies are becoming more aware of the public relations value of the green agenda to their business and are including information on their sustai...

More than 350,000 injuries and 550 deaths in the UK every year are caused by falls on domestic stairs and steps. Reducing the risks associated with...

Concrete is widely used in the Olympic Park and Olympic and Paralympic Village. Its specification and use provided an opportunity to reduce embodie...

The first industrial process for the production of a cement based on calcium aluminates was patented in 1908 and since then these cements have beco...

An updated, fully revised, full-colour edition of the definitive manual on building with straw bales, described by Grand Designs as an 'essential g...