Construction Industry

This carefully researched book covers trends in residential construction, commercial construction, real estate brokerage, property management, inve...

This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the quantity surveying profession. It begins by explaining the construction industry st...

This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the quantity surveying profession. It begins by explaining the construction industry st...

Good building performance is contingent on complex, interacting factors. The application of performance simulation tools allows practitioners to ad...

This book combines a critique of more than a century of housing reform policies, including public and other subsidized housing as well as exclusion...

Focusing on budgeting and estimating -- the least understood but most important factors of a contracting business -- this guide shows contractors h...

This book presents the findings from recent research into practices and applications of Target Value Delivery that is, setting budgets based on a ...

Future Challenges in Sustainable Development within the Built Environment stimulates and reinterprets the demands of Responsible and Sustainable De...

Approved Document H provides guidance on observing the Building Regulations concerned with drainage and waste disposal. This is an essential refere...

The construction industry has historically been male-dominated due to societal expectations and biases, specifically around the physical demands of...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Presss mission to seek out and cultivate the b...

NEC Managing Reality: A Practical Guide to Applying NEC3 is a series of books written by NEC experts well versed in using the NEC `at the coal face...

This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating pitched roofs at rafter level. When insulation is...

This guidance note provides advice on the methods, materials and risks involved with insulating the walls of timber-framed buildings. Making improv...

Supply chain management in the construction industry has passed through different eras yet throughout, the construction industry has experienced f...

Managing the Complexities of Real Estate Development provides a concise summary of the real estate development process, allowing the reader to lear...

This guidance note provides advice on the principles, risks, materials and methods for insulating solid masonry walls. Traditional solid wall const...

NEC Managing Reality: A Practical Guide to Applying NEC3 is a series of books written by NEC experts well versed in using the NEC `at the coal face...

Managing the Construction Process: Estimating, Scheduling, and Project Control, Fourth Edition, covers all areas of the Construction Management ind...

NEC Managing Reality: A Practical Guide to Applying NEC3 is a series of books written by NEC experts well versed in using the NEC `at the coal face...

NEC Managing Reality: A Practical Guide to Applying NEC3 is a series of books written by NEC experts well versed in using the NEC `at the coal face...

Prepared by the Management Practice for the Control of Erosion and Sediment (MPCES) Standards Committee of the Standards Development Council of the...

In this timely book, Emilio Jose Garcia and Brenda Vale explore what sustainability and resilience might mean when applied to the built environment...

A convergence of lean management and quality management thinking has taken place in organizations across many industries, including construction. P...

Susan Eisenberg began her apprenticeship with Local 103 of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers in 1978, the year president Jimmy Ca...

There are many text books about engineering design and some include project evaluation techniques. There are text books on accounting methods and y...

Quick, concise and direct, this pocketbook outlines the essentials that every architect needs to know about construction disputes from tips on avo...

Construction Planning, 2nd Edition is a thorough guide to the use of planning techniques, key concepts and the latest developments in the field of ...