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by Manoj Dole
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
ENGINEERING Question Answers is a simple e-Book with all about the latest & Important Machines, Hand Tools & Instruments used in Mechanical Engineering, Automobile Engineering, Production Engineering & Electrical Engineering. It contains objective questions with underlined & bold...
Ventilation Systems
Design and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2007
This comprehensive reference guide to ventilation systems provides up-to-date knowledge based on the experience of internationally-recognized experts to deal with current and future ventilation requirements in buildings. Presenting the most recent developments in ventilation research and its applications,...
Environmental Management Plans Demystified
A Guide to ISO14001
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
The development of an environmental management plan is an essential business activity that helps organise, direct and control operational activities, and plan for future environmental risk. Once created, an environmental management plan is an ongoing asset that requires regular updating and enables...
by Rodney Howes, Herbert Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2006
Throughout the world there is a growing demand for high quality public services to support socio-economic development. Infrastructure is central to improving the level of public services and the quality of the built environment. But in key areas such as transport, energy, water, healthcare, education...
Risk Management in Architectural Design
Control of Uncertainty over Building Use and Maintenance
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2014
This book analyzes the risk management process in relation to building design and operation and on this basis proposes a method and a set of tools that will improve the planning and evaluation of design solutions in order to control risks in the operation and management phase. Particular attention...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2006
An important reference book both now and post 1992. It gives a clear introduction to the industrial property market in Europe and provides the information needed to understand each country's system of planning and property development.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
The Glossary of Property Terms has helped define the property industry since its first publication in 1989. This second edition remains the glossary for all in the landed professions and related endeavours. It has been expanded to include recent additions to the property vocabulary and existing terms...
by John Huckle, Adrian Martin
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
While there is no shortage of of books on the environment there are few introductory texts that outline the social theory that informs human geographical approaches to the interactions between ecology and society. Students arriving at university often lack the understanding of history, economics,...
Enhanced Building Information Models
Using IoT Services and Integration Patterns
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This book explains how to combine and exploit sensor networks and internet-of-things (IoT) technologies and Web-service design patterns to enrich and integrate Building Information Models (BIMs). It provides approaches and software architectures for facilitating the interaction with (and between)...
Online Learning for STEM Subjects
International Examples of Technologies and Pedagogies in Use
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Global Collaboration initiatives related in this book are examples of how educators have experimented with different mechanisms to provide science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education programmes through information and communication technologies. In many cases, these programmes...
Modelling Behaviour
Design Modelling Symposium 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2015
This book reflects and expands on the current trend in the building industry to understand, simulate and ultimately design buildings by taking into consideration the interlinked elements and forces that act on them. This approach overcomes the traditional, exclusive focus on building tasks, while...
Building Energy Management Systems
An Application to Heating, Natural Ventilation, Lighting and Occupant Satisfaction
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Energy management systems are used to monitor building temperature inside and outside buildings and control the boilers and coolers. Energy efficiency is a major cost issue for commerce and industry and of growing importance on university syllabuses. Fully revised and updated, this text considers...
Comparative Design of Structures
Concepts and Methodologies
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
This book presents comparative design as an approach to the conceptual design of structures. Primarily focusing on reasonable structural performance, sustainable development and architectural aesthetics, it features detailed studies of structural performance through the composition and de-composition...
Engineering and Health in Compressed Air Work
Proceedings of the International Conference, Oxford, September 1992
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
This book is the record of the conference held in Oxford in 1992 organised by CIRIA, and co-sponsored by the Health and Safety Executive, The British Tunnelling Society and the Medical Research Council's Hyperbaric Sciences Panel. The book consolidates international medical and engineering knowledge...