Basic Structures for Engineers and Architects

By Philip Garrison
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Pages: 296
Publication Date: 2005-07-29
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405120533
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405120531
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
This book provides students of civil engineering and architecture
with a grounding in the fundamentals of structures, and a 'feel'
for the way buildings behave structurally. The book aims to explain
structural concepts clearly, using analogies and examples to
illustrate the points, and it expresses mathematical aspects of
the subject in a straightforward way.

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The Classical Orders of Architecture

By Robert Chitham
Publisher: Architectural Press
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2004-12-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750661240
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750661249

Book Description:
This is the only publication that presents a modern interpretation
of the Classical Orders. The new edition of this successful title
now includes the proportions in both metric and imperial measurements
to make the orders more accessible and to provide a valuable
reference for designers.
The inclusion of both 100-part and 96-part systems of proportion is
underpinned by an essay on James Gibbs - one of the 18th century
authors of standardized proportioning systems - and his influence in
America. Along with additional plates, this book gives a
clear introduction to those not familiar with the classical genre and
is an easy to follow guide which assists architects, interior designers
and conservators with the quality of their design.
1. The only detailed contemporary guide to the classical orders
available
2. Presents the proportioning system in both metric and imperial for
ease of understanding
3. An easily accessible introduction to the subject

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The Essencial Building Review - 2009 Winter

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Style Century Magazine - 2009 February

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Building Projects in China - A Manual for Architects and Engineers

By Bert Bielefeld, Lars-Phillip Rusch
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2006-05-19
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764374160
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764374167

Book Description:
Building Projects in China is the first publication on the book
market to give a comprehensive overview of the planning activities
of foreign architects in China. This practical handbook outlines
legal framework conditions, introduces the Chinese building market,
and gives practical descriptions of the execution of projects on
site. To complete the picture, international planning firms share
their experience on projects of the most various sizes and types in
China. What makes projects in China so challenging is the tension
between the traditional, historical planning environment of an Asian
big city and a modernity that is in many ways already ahead of the
Western world.
Interest in the Chinese building and planning market has been
steadily growing for many years. Now, for the first time, a
repository of knowledge as exhaustively researched as this one is
finally available.

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Building Construction Handbook

By Roy Chudley, Roger Greeno
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Number Of Pages: 736
Publication Date: 2006-04-03
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0750668229
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780750668224
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
Building Construction Handbook provides extensive coverage of
building construction practice, processes and techniques,
representing established procedures as well as those associated
with recent amendments to the Building Regulations, British and
European Standards and other related references. This approach,
combined with the presentation of information in a highly
illustrated and unique visual style, has proven this text to be
a vital learning resource for thousands of building construction
students, and an essential reference for professionals.
The sixth edition has been updated and expanded to take into
account many aspects of the new and revised Building Regulations
and associated Approved Documents as applied to working practice;
in particular, construction requirements for conserving and
economising energy and reducing atmospheric pollution (as this
relates to Building Regulations Part L Conservation of fuel and
power).
This new edition also develops existing topics, including
adaptation of buildings to ensure compatibility for the disabled,
further details of masonry construction, applications of steel
reinforcement to concrete, steel framed housing principles, sound
insulation and additional details of structural glazing. Throughout,
reference to supplementary regulations and standards are provided
for further reading, and where appropriate, design calculations are
included. Online lecture resources are provided, with power point
slides available for a selection of topics, featuring essential
illustrations for use with presentations and handouts.
The Handbook is an invaluable reference for students. It consolidates
several years of study material into one comprehensive volume,
suitable for a wide range of building and construction courses,
including NVQs in Construction and the Built Environment, BTEC
Nationals and Higher Nationals in Building Services Engineering,
Construction and Civil Engineering, as well as construction related
undergraduate degrees (such as Built Environment, Civil Engineering,
Building Surveying, Construction Management, Quantity Surveying,
Building, Architectural Technology and Facilities Management) and
professional examinations.
Roger Greeno is a well-known author of construction texts. He has
extensive practical and consultancy experience in the industry, in
addition to lecturing at several colleges of further and higher
education, and the University of Portsmouth. He has also examined for
City & Guilds, Edexcel, the Chartered Institute of Building and the
University of Reading.
Roy Chudleys books on Building Construction have helped thousands of
students gain their qualifications and pass exams. He was formerly a
Senior Lecturer at Guildford College.
* Topics presented in a highly visual and easy to understand layout
* The market-leading bestseller for construction practice guidance
* Ideal for students on general construction and building courses
* An essential reference for the industry
* Updated in line with revised Building Regulations
* Website resources for lecturers available

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Advances in Construction Materials

By Christian U. Grosse
Publisher: Springer
Number Of Pages: 784
Publication Date: 2007-09-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3540724478
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783540724476

Book Description:
The book is a compilation of recent research results on
building construction materials. The construction industry
consumes extreme volumes of material, and the growing
demand for quality and safety require continuous
improvement of materials and material compositions. A
deep understanding of material behavior is essential to
enable efficient construction: light-weight or heavily
burdened structures ask for the development of innovative
composites or new material compositions.
Civil Engineers and Materials Scientists from all over the
world present their ideas for further material developments,
the testing of structures and solutions for in situ applications.
Many of the innovations, composites and the design of existing material mixes, especially for concrete, are discussed. These
include high-strength and high-performance concrete (HPC), self-compacting concrete (SCC), shotcrete, and textile or
fiber reinforced concrete (FRC).
Moreover, the enhancement of material variations and the
improvement of their properties are observed for most
construction materials (e.g. wood, masonry, steel, polymers).
This book gives a good overview about the state-of-the-art in
construction material science. Some of the world s leading experts have contributed in honor of Professor Dr.-Ing. Hans W.
Reinhardt. The book starts with a review about his scientific achievements up to his recent retirement. Some contributions are
presented at the conference "Advances in Construction Materials" (ACM2007) held in July 2007 in Stuttgart.

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Solar Power in Building Design

By Peter Gevorkian
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional
Number Of Pages: 476
Publication Date: 2007-09-14
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071485635
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071485630

Book Description:
Solar Power in Building Design is a complete guide to designing,
implementing, and auditing energy-efficient, cost-effective solar
power systems for residential, commercial, and industrial buildings.
From basic theory through project planning, cost estimating, and
manufacturing methods, this vital resource offers you everything
needed for solar power design success.. .
Filled with case studies and illustrations, this state-of-the-art
design tool covers new solar technologiesdesign implementation
techniquesenergy conservationthe economics of solar power
systemspassive solar heating powerand more. Solar Power in
Building Design features:
Step-by-step instructions for designing, implementing, and auditing
solar. power systems . Expert guidance on using solar power in any
type of building-from basic theory through project planning, cost
estimating, and manufacturing . Complete details on Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design. (LEED), plus rebate procedures and
forms . . Inside This Cutting-Edge Solar Power Toolkit . Solar power
physics and technology Practical guide to solar power design Solar
power design implementation Energy conservation Leadership in Energy
and Environmental Design (LEED) Sustainable energy rebate Economics
of solar power systems Passive solar heating power.

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Big Box Reuse

By Julia Christensen
Publisher: The MIT Press
Number Of Pages: 220
Publication Date: 2008-11-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0262033798
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780262033794

Book Description:
America is becoming a container landscape of big boxes connected
by highways. When a big box store upsizes to an even bigger box
"supercenter" down the road, it leaves behind more than the vacant
shell of a retail operation; it leaves behind a changed landscape
that can't be changed back. Acres of land have been paved around
it. Highway exits lead to it; local roads end at it. With
thousands of empty big box stores spread across America, these
sites have become a dominant feature of the American landscape.
In Big Box Reuse, Julia Christensen shows us how ten communities
have addressed this problem, turning vacated Wal-Marts and Kmarts
into something else: a church, a library, a school, a medical
center, a courthouse, a recreation center, a museum, and other
civic-minded structures. In each case, what was once a place to
shop has become a center of community life.
Christensen crisscrossed America identifying these projects, then
photographed, videotaped, and interviewed the people involved. The
first-person accounts and color photographs of Big Box Reuse reveal
the hidden stories behind the transformation of these facades into
gateways of community life. Whether a big box store becomes a
"Senior Resource Center" or a museum devoted to Spam (the kind that
comes in a can), each renovation displays a community's
resourcefulness and creativity—but it also raises questions about
how big box buildings affect the lives of communities. What does it
mean for us and for the future of America if the spaces of commerce
built by a few monolithic corporations become the sites where
education, medicine, religion, and culture are dispensed wholesale
to the populace?.

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Open and Industrialised Building, 1st Edition

by A. Sarja
Hardcover: 228 pages
Publisher: Taylor & Francis; 1 edition (July 23, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0419238409
ISBN-13: 978-0419238409

Book Description:
There is clearly potential for the industrial production of
open buildings - namely buildings where the parts which makeup
the whole are designed to allow a high degree freedom for
layout, construction and adaptation. Industrialised open
building has the potential to radically cut building costs
and construction time. The book focusses on product and
production systematics and information systematics, and begins
with an extensive survey of the field by the editor. The second
part consists of a series of descriptions of the experience of
different countries, and chapters on particular themes. The book
presents new material developed from Commission W24 of the CIB
(the International Council for Building Research Studies and
Documentation).

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From the Studio to the Streets - Service Learning in Planning and Architecture

By Mary C. Hardin
Publisher: Stylus Publishing
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2006-08
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1563771004
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781563771002

Book Description:
Architecture should be the ideal field of study for applying
to service learning since it requires mastery of theoretical
concepts for direct application to human situations and needs.
Though architecture has long fostered learning by doing, it is
only recently that the field’s hands-on aspects have been
subjected to more systematic appraisal. This book is the first
book to make a formal connection between service learning
pedagogy and architectural practice, and to address the related
issues, both professional and ethical. This book looks equally
at the emergence in the sixties of planning departments out of
schools of architecture, and at planning’s shift in orientation
away from “master planning,” elite designers, and signature
buildings to the mainstream acceptance of neighborhood-based
planning and socially engaged practice. This turn has led to far
more widespread adoption of service learning in planning programs.
The chapters in this book illustrate how service learning can be
used to develop a wide range of professional skills in students,
including land use and building condition surveys, zoning analysis,
demographic analysis, cost estimating, public presentation, site
planning, urban design, participatory design processes, public
workshops, and design charrettes as well as measured drawings of
existing buildings. The author demonstrates how community design
programs are more than service activities; and how they can be
models of interdisciplinary teamwork, often involving planners,
urban designers, and landscape architects as well as scholars and
researchers from related fields. The essays in this book offer
insights into both successful initiatives and roadblocks along the
way and address the practicalities of the use of this powerful
pedagogy.

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Steel Structures - Design and Behavior

by Charles G. Salmon, John E. Johnson, Faris A. Malhas
Hardcover: 888 pages
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0131885561
ISBN-13: 978-0131885561

Book Description
The design of structural steel members has developed over
the past century from a simple approach involving a few basic
properties of steel and elementary mathematics to a more
sophisticated treatment demanding a thorough knowledge of
structural and material behavior. Steel Structures:Design
and Behavior, 5/e strives to present in a logical manner the
theoretical background needed for developing and explaining
design requirements. Beginning with coverage of background
material, including references to pertinent research, the
development of specific formulas used in the AISC
Specifications is followed by a generous number of design
examples explaining in detail the process of selecting minimum
weight members to satisfy given conditions.

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Architectural Technologists Magazine - 2008 January-February

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Materials for Sustainable Sites - A Complete Guide to the Evaluation, Selection, and Use of Sustainable Construction Materials

By Meg Calkins
Publisher: Wiley
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2008-10-06
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0470134550
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780470134559

Book Description:
This complete guide to the evaluation, selection, and use of
sustainable materials in the landscape features strategies to
minimize environmental and human health impacts of conventional
site construction materials as well as green materials.
Providing detailed current information on construction materials
for sustainable sites, the book introduces tools, techniques,
ideologies and resources for evaluating, sourcing, and specifying
sustainable site materials. Chapters cover types of materials,
both conventional and emerging green materials, environmental
and human health impacts of the material, and detailed strategies
to minimize these impacts. Case studies share cost and performance
information and lessons learned.

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Virtual Futures for Design, Construction and Procurement

By Peter S. Brandon, Tuba Kocatürk
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Number Of Pages: 344
Publication Date: 2008-06-16
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1405170247
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781405170246

Book Description:
This book brings together some of the best practitioners and thinkers
from around the world to discuss the likely future of information and
communication technologies for the construction industry.
It addresses a range of innovative developments, state of the art
applications, research work and theoretical arguments with regard to
the use of virtual technologies in design, construction and procurement.
From a future oriented perspective, the book presents what can be
expected from the next generation of these technologies.

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Architectural Technologists Magazine - 2008 March-April

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Defective Construction Work

Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (July 28, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 063205929X
ISBN-13: 978-0632059294

Book Description:
Defective construction work, whether the result of inadequate
design, faulty workmanship or poor materials – or some
combination of these failings – is a frequent cause of legal
disputes. Someone is usually to blame, either the builder or
one or more of the professional consultants, or even the entire
project team. It is important therefore that the project team
should possess a good working knowledge of their responsibilities
and liabilities.
Written by a solicitor with over twenty years of experience of
building disputes, this book examines the responsibilities and
liabilities of the project team when defects occur. It sets out
the background role of the common law and statute and includes
detailed discussion of important case law affecting the
construction process from inception through to completion,
together with a consideration of the impact of letters of
intent, ‘no contract’ situations, and specific provisions of
model conditions of contract.

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The Art of Antiquity - Piet De Jong And the Athenian Agora

By John K. Papadopoulos
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athen
Number Of Pages: 334
Publication Date: 2007-04-30
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 087661960X
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780876619605

Book Description:
The archives of the American School excavations in the
Athenian Agora contain a remarkable series of watercolors
and drawings—well over 400—by Piet de Jong, one of the
best-known, most distinctive, and influential archaeological
illustrators of the 20th century. They show landscapes,
people, and, above all, objects recovered during many seasons
of fieldwork at one of the longest continuously running
archaeological projects in Greece.
The aim of this volume is to bring these illustrations out of
the storage drawers and to assemble in color a representative
sample of some of the finest of Piet de Jong’s contributions.
Along the way, this book tells the story of the Agora
excavations and assesses their contribution to scholarship.
It includes essays by 16 scholars currently working at the
Agora, and surveys the entire span of the material they are
studying—from Neolithic pottery to the Late Byzantine and
post-Byzantine frescoes from the Church of Ayios Spyridon.

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Computing in Architectural Practice

By C. Woodward
Publisher: Spon Press
Number Of Pages: 192
Publication Date: 1998-04-21
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0419213104
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780419213109
Binding: Paperback

Book Description:
Personal computers have proven useful in architectural practice
for almost two decades, at first for helping in secretarial and
clerical tasks, and then in replacing the apparatus of manual
drawing by computer-aided draughting (CAD). However, most
smaller architectural firms still utilize only the
word-processing functions of their computers. This book provides
a concise introducing for small and medium sized architectural
practices considering introducing computers or using them to
enhance the way in which information is originated by and
communicated between members of the building team. This book
covers the three main areas of architectural practice in which
computers have been most useful: office management, scheme and
production drawing, and project management. Necessary technical
terms are clearly explained, and key ideas illustrated with
figures and diagrams.

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New Construction & Major Renovation Reference Guide

New Construction & Major Renovation Reference Guide

By U.S. Green Building Council
Publisher:
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2006
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1932444068
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781932444063

Book Description:
The LEED for New Construction v2.2 Reference Guide is over 400
pages of advice and information on using the LEED for New
Construction version 2.2 Green Building Rating System for your
building project. It has been thoroughly revised and updated
since version 2.1 with new case studies, updated guidance and
resources, and new information on the process of achieving LEED
for New Construction certification. For each credit, the Reference
Guide provides: overview and points per credit, documentation
requirements, summary of reference standard (where applicable),
importance and benefits of compliance, recommended design
strategies and technologies, potential design synergies and
trade-offs, economics (when available), calculation methods and
formulas, resources and definitions, and case studies (when
available).

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Selfbuilder and Homemaker Magazine - 2008 January

Selfbuilder and Homemaker Magazine - 2008 January

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ADF Magazine - 2008 February

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