Construction category: 2089 books
The Procurement and Management of Small Works and Minor Maintenance
The Principal Considerations for Client Organisations
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Many client organisations occupy large and often diverse property estates which require significant expenditure on maintenance, alterations, refurbishment or small-scale new building work. Effective organisation and efficient allocation of resources are essential to ensure that the works are carried...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2017
This book provides an overview of the environmental problems that arise from construction activity, focusing on refurbishment as an alternative to the current crisis in the construction sector, as well as on measures designed to minimize the effects on the environment. Furthermore, it offers professionals...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2003
There is clearly potential for the industrial production of open buildings, buildings where the parts which are designed to allow a high degree of freedom for layout, construction and adaptation. Industrialized open building has the potential to radically cut building costs and construction time.
This...
by James Douglas, Bill Ransom
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2013
Building defects still continue to plague the construction industry. The lessons learned over the last forty years have not been fully applied. Many new or refurbished buildings still leak or crack. Lack of awareness by designers and installers as to the main mechanisms that trigger such failures...
by Jianzhuang Xiao
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book describes how, given the global challenge of a shortage of natural resources in the 21st century, the recycling of waste concrete is one of the most important means of implementing sustainable construction development strategies.
Firstly, the book presents key findings on the micro-...
Energy and Housing
A Symposium Held at the Open University, Milton Keynes, on 31st October, 1974. Convened by B.W. Jones of the Faculty of Science and the Energy Research Group
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Energy and Housing examines the problem of power for houses and energy for building materials and considers ways of reducing the energy consumed in domestic housing. Emphasis is more on the running energy costs than on the capital energy cost of building materials and construction.
This book is comprised...
Whole Life Costing
A New Approach
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2012
Whole life costing has been a subject waiting to come of age for many years. What was previously of mainly academic interest is now becoming a key business tool in the procurement and construction of significant projects.
With the advent of PPP and in particular of PFI, details of the project...
by Charles Frederick Mitchell
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Compiled to assist students preparing for the May examinations of the science and art department. the elementary and first stages. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Profiled Sheet Roofing and Cladding
A Guide to Good Practice
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
This guide, the third edition of the NFRCs guide to good practice, is an accessible and practical code of practice in the application, design and installation of profiled sheeting and wall and roof cladding. The UK has developed very cost-effective methods of erecting and cladding factory, warehouse...
by Stephan Freudenstein, Konstantin Geisler, Tristan Molter
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Due to increasing traffic flows the extension of transport infrastructure with rail roads and high speed lines is an ongoing process worldwide. Ballastless track systems with concrete slabs are used more and more.
Following the first trials in the 1970s and more than four decades of R&D work on ballastless...
by Leonid Dvorkin, Vadim Zhitkovsky, Yuri Ribakov
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
The monograph analyses the state of the art (problem) in using stone siftings and aspiration dust obtained in natural stone crushing for producing concrete aggregates and fillers for dry construction mixtures and mortars on their basis. The influence of disperse fraction in stone siftings and aspiration...
Dictionnaire raisonné de l'architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle
( Edition intégrale ) Tome 6/9 - illustré - annoté
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2018
GÂBLE, Terme de charpenterie appliqué à la maçonnerie. Il y a encore une association de charpentiers à laquelle on donne le nom de Gavauds, et, dans le Berri, un homme qui a les jambes arquées en dehors s’appelle un gavaud. Le gâble est originairement la réunion, à leur sommet, de deux...
Long-term Performance and Durability of Masonry Structures
Degradation Mechanisms, Health Monitoring and Service Life Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
Long-Term Performance and Durability of Masonry Structures: Degradation Mechanisms, Health Monitoring and Service Life Design focuses on the long-term performance of masonry and historical structures. The book covers a wide range of related topics, including degradation mechanisms in different masonry...
3D Concrete Printing Technology
Construction and Building Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2019
3D Concrete Printing Technology provides valuable insights into the new manufacturing techniques and technologies needed to produce concrete materials. In this book, the editors explain the concrete printing process for mix design and the fresh properties for the high-performance printing of concrete,...