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by Institution of Lighting Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
As concern grows over environmental issues and light pollution, this book satisfies a need for a straightforward and accessible guide to the use, design and installation of outdoor lighting.
This all-inclusive guide to exterior lighting from the Institution of Lighting Engineers, recognized...
by W.P. Jones
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2007
Designed for students and professional engineers, the fifth edition of this classic text deals with fundamental science and design principles of air conditioning engineering systems. W P Jones is an acknowledged expert in the field, and he uses his experience as a lecturer to present the material...
by B. J. Smith, G M Phillips, M Sweeney
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2014
First published in 1983. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Vaastu Corrections Without Demolition
Harmonizing the Energy Based on the Ancient Vedic Principles
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2016
Vaastu and Feng Shui offer a multi-disciplinary approach to ways of living. These sciences make sweet things sweeter and bitter less bitter. Nature has five fundamental elements that affect everybody. Correlation of Earth-Water-Fire-Air-Space in addition to basic principles of Vaastu and Feng Shui...
by Paul Sandori
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Based on common, everyday phenomena, the principles governing the balance of forces on machines and structures are extremely straightforward. Their expression in mathematical form, however, obscures their clarity. This volume exposes the principles of statics in their original simplicity, presenting...
by John Hazlehurst
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2009
This is the first of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with the
installation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volume
explains the basic principles underlying the practical and theoretical aspects of
installing and servicing gas appliances and associated...
by Zongjin Li
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
Over the past two decades concrete has enjoyed a renewed level of research and testing, resulting in the development of many new types of concrete. Through the use of various additives, production techniques and chemical processes, there is now a great degree of control over the properties of specific...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003
Proceedings of a seminar held in Silsoe, UK, 26-28 March 1990.
by Jerome Connor, Simon Laflamme
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
This innovative volume provides a systematic treatment of the basic concepts and computational procedures for structural motion design and engineering for civil installations. The authors illustrate the application of motion control to a wide spectrum of buildings through many examples. Topics covered...
Retail Banking
Business Transformation and Competitive Strategies for the Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
The world of retail banking is changing. While previously a purely money-making entity, the industry has brought social responsibility onto its agenda, and the ground rules for success have altered. Traditional convictions, rules and values that have influenced all banking business in the past are...
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Volume 3 of 4 - Air Conditioning
Includes Undesirable Properties of Air, Temperatures, Airflows and Their Measuring Devices, Design and Installation Factors, Self-Contained Package Air-Conditioning Units, Fresh Air and Air Duct System, Controls, Evaporative Cooling, Mechanical Venti
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2015
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Volume 3 of 4 - Air ConditioningThis course is the third volume of four volumes devoted to instruction in refrigeration and air conditioning.This course discusses airflow properties and temperature response including an explanation of air and temperature measuring devices....
Tropical Urban Heat Islands
Climate, Buildings and Greenery
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2008
Conventional air conditioning is not a sustainable solution to the challenge of a hot or humid climate. The climate problem is compounded in so-called Urban Heat Islands, urban areas where the air can be 3–5°C hotter than its surrounding areas and where pollution levels are consequently raised.
Including...
by Douglas Harris
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
This new edition of A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings begins by asking why we need to control energy use in buildings and proceeds to discuss how the energy consumption of a building can be assessed or estimated through an energy audit. It then details a range of interventions to reduce energy...
Traditional Toolmaking
The Classic Treatise on Lapping, Threading, Precision Measurements, and General Toolmaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Bringing together the collective wisdom of a past generation of craftsmen, Traditional Toolmaking provides an in-depth record of the skills and techniques that made the mass production revolution of the twentieth century possible. When first published in 1915, this book was an answer to a vast array...