Conservation of Buildings & Building Materials

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of masonry structures and constructions, as presented by leadi...

This book highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of masonry structures and constructions, as presented by leadi...

A jewel of Japanese residential architecture, presented through stunning immersive photographs and detailed fold-out plans One of the great exampl...

Of interest to engineers from civil, military, nuclear, offshore, aeronautical, transportation and other backgrounds, this book contains the procee...

Governments across the globe are setting targets for reducing their carbon emissions. For example, the UK Government has committed to an eighty per...

This volume highlights the latest advances, innovations, and applications in biomaterials for road pavements, as presented by leading international...

Construction Materials and Their Properties for Fire Resistance and Insulation covers the properties of novel types of concrete and other more conv...

Maintenance Engineering for Buildings: Digital Solutions and Sustainable Practices offers a thorough body of knowledge on organizational frameworks...

The use of novel materials and new structural concepts nowadays is not restricted to highly technical areas like aerospace, aeronautical applicatio...

Architectural Encounters in Asia Pacific explores the architecture of colonial trade and industry, revealing a complex network of transnational con...

This book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Infrastructure: Innovations, Challenges and Opportunities 2023...

This book reviews four decades of debate about restoring an industrial heritage site of inestimable value the Venice Arsenal. Focusing on the chal...

The back cover of R.E.M.'s influential 1983 album Murmur famously features an image of the wooden Trail Creek Trestle. Over time the aging nineteen...

This book presents themes related to contemporary architecture as the results of diverse cultural influences and architectural legacies, manifested...

This book explores the management of public facilities and the wider issues around it, with examples from educational, health facilities, and publi...

A one-of-a-kind tour through exquisitely preserved, chronicled and illustrated historic buildings /> />Preservation in Action is the first pu...

This is an essential guide for those taking either the RIBA Conservation Register Course or another building conservation course. Taking as its sta...

Understanding landscape design as a dynamic, not static, art form Landscape architects do not situate their work in a vacuum. It exists in a state ...

Understanding landscape design as a dynamic, not static, art form Landscape architects do not situate their work in a vacuum. It exists in a state ...

Northwold Manor is a multi-period listed building (grade II*), about which almost nothing was known. Uninhabited since 1955, it had fallen into a s...

Collection of selected, peer reviewed papers from the International Conference on Building Safety and Secure 2015, August 10-12, 2015, Prague, Czec...

The book documents the history and morphology of the Ancient City of Aleppo, outlining first the urbanistic development of the city and then focusi...