Lettres de Mgr Guillemin, Sur l'Erection de la Chapelle de S. Francois Xavier Dans l'Ile de Sancian (Savoirs Et Traditions)
by Guillemin-Z
Building Design and Development in Hong Kong
This book covers a wide range of topics on the building design and property development practice in Hong Kong. The process of property development from inception to completion is complicated, including territorial planning, building design, submission procedures, tendering and construction. This volume focuses on three areas: Property Planning, Design and Management, and Construction and Maintenance. Readers will be benefited from the diversity in expertise and experience of authors from a multi...
National Structural Steelwork Specification for Building Construction
Bio-Based Building Materials (Construction Technologies and Architecture, Volume 1)
The 4th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials (ICBBM 2021, 16-18 June 2021, Barcelona, Spain) has become established as a leading forum of Scientists across a broad range of disciplines related to the application of bio-based composites and natural materials in modern construction practice.
Laxton's NRM Building Price Book 2022
Barry's Introduction to Construction of Buildings (Wiley Desktop Editions) (Coursesmart)
by Stephen Emmitt and Christopher A. Gorse
The five volume series, Barry's Construction of Buildings, has been established as a standard text on building technology for many years. However, a substantial update has long been required, and while doing this the opportunity has been taken to reduce five volumes to two in a more user-friendly format. The introductory volume covers domestic construction and brings together material from volumes 1, 2 and part of 5. The extensive revision includes modern concepts on site assembly, environment...
FIP Handbook on Practical Design
In 1984, FIP issued its Recommendations on practical design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures, based on the CEB-FIP Model Code 1978. This volume applies these Recommendations to eight different worked examples of concrete structures, varying from simple beams to silo construction, flat slab design, incremental launching of bridge structures and other methods of bridge design and construction. These worked examples, each with an explanation of the principles involved and constant...
An overview of Japanese architecture and building techniques, this text is divided into two sections: "Traditional Japanese Building Practice" by Kenneth Frampton, which covers the development of the Japanese architectural system from its Chinese roots until 1868, and "Japanese Architecture, Technology and Construction in the Meiji Period" by Kunio Kudo, which covers the development of the modern Japanese building industry.
This text concentrates on building an understanding of hydraulics and surface water hydrology as used in everyday civil engineering practice of stormwater management. Introduction to the basic concepts of fluid mechanics lead to the understanding of pipe, channel and stream flow. It covers the design of storm sewers, culverts and detention basins. A careful analysis follows with runoff calculations using the Rational and SCS Methods. This includes practice in delineating drainage basins on actua...
Graphic Standards Field Guide to Residential Construction (Graphic Standards Field Guide, #18)
by Dennis J. Hall and Nina M. Giglio
* A must-have reference to more than 100 common residential conditions from accessibility issues to working with zinc * Practical information that the architect, engineer, contractor and homeowner can access quickly, with over 230 supporting tables photos and details * Identifies frequently used reference standards, acceptable practices, and other relevant resources Quick, reliable answers to your most common on-site questions When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. Gra...
Klempnerin weil Superheld kein anerkannter Beruf ist! Notizbuch
by Klempner-In Press
This book testifies to the growing interest in the many spaces of utopia. It intends to 'map out' on utopian and science-fiction discourses some of the new and revisionist models of spatial analysis applied in Literary and Cultural Studies in recent years. The aim of the volume is to side-step the established generic binary of utopia and dystopia or science fiction and thus to open the analysis of utopian literature to new lines of inquiry. The essays collected here propose to think of utopias n...