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Valorizzazione degli edifici dimenticati. Lo stabilimento enologico Rudinì di Pachino
Lo stabilimento enologico Rudinì di Pachino
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
Il volume affronta il tema del riuso degli edifici dismessi come azione strategica di conservazione e valorizzazione del patrimonio esistente. In tal senso il testo analizza il caso dello stabilimento enologico Rudinì di Pachino, memoria dell’attività produttiva agricola e industriale della Sicilia...
Soil Dynamics and Soil-Structure Interaction for Resilient Infrastructure
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Infrastructure is the key to creating a sustainable community. It affects our future well-being as well as the economic climate. Indeed, the infrastructure we are building today will shape tomorrow's communities. GeoMEast 2017 created a venue for researchers and practitioners from all over the world...
by John Clancy
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2013
This popular and useful text has been completely revised and up-dated so that it forms and indipensible handbook for any student of surveying.
An additional chapter on modern developments is included and the text has also been extended to cover ordnance survey; calculation of areas; computation...
by Phil Askham, Leslie Blake
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2014
Each topic treated represents an area of specialism in its own right. This book helps fill the gap between the extremes of neglect and detailed consideration in existing texts by providing an authoritative and yet accessible treatment of several complex and technical subjects. Each chapter has been...
Risk: An Introduction
The Concepts of Risk, Danger and Chance
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2009
Investments, global warming and crossing the road – risk is a factor embedded in our everyday lives but do we really understand what it means, how it is quantified and how decisions are made? In six chapters Ben Ale explains the concepts, methods and procedures for risk analysis and in doing so provides...
by Hattie Hasan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
This book is for you if you are a woman wanting to take control of your life. Whether you are just starting out or well into your working life. Age doesn't matter here. It's never too early or too late. If you have ever thought 'if only I had...' then this book will take you on a journey that will...
Earthquake Resistant Buildings
Dynamic Analyses, Numerical Computations, Codified Methods, Case Studies and Examples
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
This concise work provides a general introduction to the design of buildings which must be resistant to the effect of earthquakes. A major part of this design involves the building structure which has a primary role in preventing serious damage or structural collapse. Much of the material presented...
Interventi locali su edifici in muratura
Guida pratica alla realizzazione di aperture vani, piattabande, cerchiature, solai
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Il volume analizza le verifiche necessarie quando si effettuano su edifici in muratura quelli che la normativa definisce Interventi locali, cioè degli interventi che riguardano solo una piccola parte della costruzione e non vanno a modificare la globalità dell’edificio. Per questo tipo di interventi...
She Sheds
A Room of Your Own
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2017
Create your very own hideaway for relaxing, crafting, reading, or just to have a private place just for you. She Sheds provides the instruction and inspiration.
They've got their man caves, and it's time for you to have a space of your own. She Sheds shows you how to create cozy getaways...
by Wes McGregor
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2007
Essential reading for building owners, facilities managers, architects and surveyors, this book will also prove useful on business management and facilities management courses, and for those studying architecture, surveying and real estate management.
by Ali Kaveh
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2013
Optimal analysis is defined as an analysis that creates and uses sparse, well-structured and well-conditioned matrices. The focus is on efficient methods for eigensolution of matrices involved in static, dynamic and stability analyses of symmetric and regular structures, or those general structures...
by Marcus Steffen
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Good lighting is essential to a building. An effective design is not just about introducing light into a space, but rather an appreciation of how the space will be used. A good lighting design is so intertwined with the building that it is only noticed in its absence. This book introduces the tools...
by T. Markus
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2005
This report arises out of the Working Group set up by The Watt Committee on Energy to examine the issues relating to domestic use and affordable warmth. With contributions from both academia and industry, and also calling on the expertise of others deeply involved in the subject, this book provides...
by Scott Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Whether calculating a net present value, assessing an internal rate of return, or considering the impact of debt on a transaction when analysing investments in property it is very hard to get away from the need for cashflows. These cashflows range from the very simple to the extremely complex and...