Construction category: 2089 books
Oiling the Urban Economy
Land, Labour, Capital, and the State in Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
This book presents a critical analysis of the ‘resource curse’ doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa’s new oil metropolis - Sekondi-Takoradi, Ghana. It seeks answers to the...
by Graham Norwood, Kim Tasso
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Media relations are a vital tool for helping property companies build shareholder value through stronger brands, develop reputations that drive a flow of new work, and help sell and let properties faster and at a fraction of the cost of other marketing techniques, but such relationships need to be...
Urban Wind Environment
Integrated Climate-Sensitive Planning and Design
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the context of urbanization and compact urban living, conventional experience-based planning and design often cannot adequately address the serious environmental issues, such as thermal comfort and air quality. The ultimate goal of this book is to facilitate a paradigm shift from the conventional...
Shop Safety (Carpentry)
Includes Shop Safety Rules, Procedures, Developing a Program, Identification of Potential Hazards, and the Development of Rules and Procedures for a Successful Shop Safety Program
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Shop SafetyThe purpose of this course is to provide repair shop supervisors with basic information concerning general shop safety procedures. This knowledge should assist the shop supervisor in implementing a successful shop safety program. This course will present methods of preventing accidents and...
Ventilation and Airflow in Buildings
Methods for Diagnosis and Evaluation
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2012
Energy efficiency in buildings requires, among other things, that ventilation be appropriately dimensioned: too much ventilation wastes energy, and insufficient ventilation leads to poor indoor air quality and low comfort. Studies have shown that ventilation systems seldom function according to their...
Earthquake Disaster Simulation of Civil Infrastructures
From Tall Buildings to Urban Areas
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2017
Based on more than 12 years of systematic investigation on earthquake disaster simulation of civil infrastructures, this book covers the major research outcomes including a number of novel computational models, high performance computing methods and realistic visualization techniques for tall buildings...
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics, Volume 6
Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2015
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics*, Volume 6: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015,* the sixth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early...
Dynamics of Coupled Structures, Volume 4
Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2017
Dynamics of Coupled Structures*, Volume 4: Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017,* the fourth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings...
by Paul Fitchett, Jeremy Haslam
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
Engineers need to understand the legal and commercial context in which they draw up technical specifications. This thoroughly up-dated edition of Haslam's successful Writing Engineering Specifications provides a concise guide to technical specifications and leads the reader through the process of...
Urban Infrastructure
Finance and Management
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
The magnitude of investment, the long time-frames involved and the influence of pre-existing infrastructure on urban infrastructure provision make a co-ordinated approach to forward-planning, policy development and implementation essential.
There are major challenges in making decisions on...
by Thomas M. Shoemaker, James E. Mack
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
A Compact, On-the-Job Reference for Linemen and Cablemen
Fully updated with the latest NEC and OSHA standards, this one-stop portable guide contains the crucial electrical data, formulas, calculations, and safety information essential at any jobsite. The Lineman's and Cableman's Field Manual,...
Cement Production Technology
Principles and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2018
Explores the subject of cement production with an effective combination of materials science and technology along with good analysis of cement production sector
Provides all the unit processes of cement production with their back-up principles and practice in one volume
Includes...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The response of concrete under tensile loading is crucial for most applications because concrete is much weaker in tension than in compression. Understanding the response mechanisms of concrete under tensile conditions is therefore key to understanding and using concrete in structural applications....
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This handbook surveys the range of methods and fuel types used in generating energy for industry, transportation, and heating and cooling of buildings. Solar, wind, biomass, nuclear, geothermal, ocean and fossil fuels are discussed and compared, and the thermodynamics of energy conversion is explained....