Construction category: 2089 books
by Roland Ashcroft
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Construction for Interior Designers is a highly readable, comprehensive and informative text proving all the technical information required. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the 1991 amendments if the 1985 Building Regulations and includes a new chapter on environmental issues...
Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance
Chinese Construction Firms in Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
This book explores China’s global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national culture, followed by reviews of the construction...
Cave Exploration in Slovenia
Discovering Over 350 New Caves During Motorway Construction on Classical Karst
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
This book focuses on the opening and exploration of more than 350 previously undiscovered caves of the Slovenian Karst, discovered during motorway construction work. The summarizes the planning of traffic roads and presents the new findings obtained during construction, as well as studies on newly-discovered...
Construction Law
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Now in its second edition, Construction Law is the standard work of reference for busy construction law practitioners, and it will support lawyers in their contentious and non-contentious practices worldwide. Published in three volumes, it is the most comprehensive text on this subject, and provides...
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
( Edition intégrale ) Tome 4/9 - illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
CONSTRUCTION, APERÇU GÉNÉRAL.—La construction est une science; c’est aussi un art, c’est-à-dire qu’il faut au constructeur le savoir, l’expérience, et un sentiment naturel. On naît constructeur; la science que l’on acquiert ne peut que développer les germes déposés dans le cerveau...
Target Cost Contracting Strategy in Construction
Principles, Practices and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
The problems inherent in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the construction industry. Target cost contracts, accompanied by a gain-share/pain-share arrangement serving as a cost incentive mechanism, have emerged in the United...
Lean Construction – Das Managementhandbuch
Agile Methoden und Lean Management im Bauwesen
Language: German
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Dieses Buch liefert einen Einblick in neue Methoden für das Management von Bauprojekten. Gerade bei Großprojekten besteht Gefahr, dass Termine, Kosten und Qualität nicht eingehalten werden. Komplexe Bauvorhaben gehören zu dieser Projektkategorie und bedürfen einer speziellen Steuerung. Dieses...
by Daniel Jay Felperin
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
This guide is a handy, easy-to use reference to construction safety and regulatory compliance and a proactive health and safety tool offering job hazard analysis, safe work practices and daily safety reminders. Useful for emergency planning, preparedness and response, it provides concise information for employers, supervisors and employees.
by Duncan Cartlidge
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2006
Collaborative working and partnering between the public and private sectors has been fairly standard practice in some form or other for over 100 years, but it is only in recent years that it has become more prevalent. In the UK, it is little more than ten years since the most widely known Public...
Design-Build Project Delivery
Managing the Building Process from Proposal Through Construction
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2006
U.S. audience: architects (113,000), construction managers (389,000), engineers (228,000), urban and regional planners (32,000)
All federally funded construction projects must be, by law, design-build projects
Project Management, Planning and Control
Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
Covering the principles and techniques you need to successfully manage an engineering or technical project from start to finish, Project Management, Planning and Control is an established and widely recommended project management handbook.
With clear and detailed coverage of planning, scheduling...
by Stephen Emmitt, Kirti Ruikar
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
The design process has always been central to construction, but recent years have seen its significance increase, and the ways of approaching it multiply. To an increasing degree, other stakeholders such as contractors have input at the design stage, and the designer’s role includes tasks that...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
Novel research in construction management is often distant from existing practice. This collection of reviews serves to bridge this gap under three major themes: innovation, organisation and human behaviour, and methods and tools.
It outlines a series of successful collaborative projects between...
Construction Ecology
Nature as a Basis for Green Buildings
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2003
Industrial ecology provides a sound means of systematising the various ideas which come under the banner of sustainable construction and provides a model for the design, operation and ultimate disposal of buildings.