Electronic Books

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A Handbook of Sustainable Building Design and Engineering : An Integrated Approach to Energy, Health and Operational Performance / Dejan Mumovic, Mat Santamouris

Equips students with the tools they will need to tackle the challenges of sustainable building design and engineering. The ...

Active Rheology Control of Cementitious Materials / Geert De Schutter, Karel Lesage

The research presented here develops a new method of actively controlling the rheology of fresh concrete during casting operations ...

Automation in Construction toward Resilience : Robotics, Smart Materials and Intelligent Systems / Ehsan Noroozinejad Farsangi, Mohammad Noori, Tony T.Y. Yang

Presents all aspects of automation in construction pertaining to the use of information technologies in design, engineering, ...

Behaviour and Design of Steel and Composite Connections in Fire / Mostafa Jafarian, Yong Wang

The only dedicated book on fire performance of connections in steel and composite structures. Recent experimental and numerical ...

Building Surveys / Peter Glover

A trusted guide for both students and professionals for nearly 40 years, evolving to address the challenges and responsibilities ...

Building from Tradition: Local Materials and Methods in Contemporary Architecture / Elizabeth Golden

Examines the recent resurgence of interest in the handmade building and the use of local and renewable materials in contemporary ...

Chudley and Greeno's Building Construction Handbook / Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno, Karl Kovac

The principles and processes of construction are explained with the concepts of design included where appropriate. Extensive ...

Construction and Building Automation : From Concepts to Implementation / Benny Raphael

Intended to be used as a textbook in undergraduate civil engineering and construction courses to introduce cutting edge mechanical, ...

Data Driven Methods for Civil Structural Health Monitoring and Resilience : Latest Developments and Applications / Mohammad Noori, Carlo Rainieri, Marco Domaneschi, Vasilis Sarhosis

Provides a comprehensive overview of data-driven methods for structural health monitoring (SHM) and resilience of civil engineering ...

Data-driven BIM for Energy Efficient Building Design / Saeed Banihashemi, Hamed Golizadah, Farzad Pour Rahimian

Conceptualises the scale and spectrum of Building Information Modelling (BIM) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) approaches ...

Design Build with The Scarcity and Creativity Studio / Christian Hermansen Cordua, Solveig Sandness

Scarcity and Creativity Studio has developed a teaching method which reaffirms a commitment to architecture as a service ...

Design Technology in Contemporary Architectural Practice / Dominik Holzer

Offers rare insights about how these firms apply technology to purposefully disrupt and support their creative design processes ...

Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures / Yves Weinand

Outlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from ...

Design of Structural Elements : Concrete, Steelwork, Masonry and Timber Designs to Eurocodes / Chanakya Arya

Topics include the philosophy of design, sustainable development, basic structural concepts, and material properties. After ...

Eco-Design of Buildings and Infrastructure : Developments in the Period 2016–2020 / Bruno Peuportier, Fabien Leurent, Jean Roger-Estrade

Reviews the second five-year sequence of the Chair, first presenting methodological advances in eco-design: life cycle assessment ...

Fundamentals of Building Performance Simulation / Ian Beausoleil-Morrison

Pares the theory and practice of a multi-disciplinary field to the essentials for classroom learning and real-world applications. ...

Fundamentals of Durable Reinforced Concrete / Mark G. Richardson

The book presents a framework for specification through internationally adopted codes and standards and summarises the background ...

Heritage Building Conservation : Sustainable and Digital Modelling / Mohamed Marzouk

Covers: The technology used to digitally document heritage buildings, including LIDAR, photogrammetry, Heritage Building ...

High Performance Concrete Optimal Composition Design / Leonid Dvorkin, Vadim Zhitkovsky, Oleh Bordiuzhenko

Presents experimental and theoretical results allowing production of special high-strength rapid hardening concrete and fiber ...

Introduction to Project Management : A Source Book for Traditional PM Basics / Davies A. Igberaese

Presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally ...

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