Product Info This book provides an insight into how whole life costing is affecting design, construction, maintenance and disposal of structures. more »

Product Info This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada more »

Written by an expert with over forty years of experience, this book covers the six rules of brazing and how they impact the various procedures that are an essential part of brazing technology. Exploring what is and what is not good brazing practice, the author presents readers with a reference that will ... more »

In Situ Remediation Engineering provides a comprehensive guide to the design and implementation of reactive zone methods for treatment of all major classes of groundwater contamination. It teaches the fundamentals that underlie development of cost-effective reactive zone strategies, guides the selection ... more »

Moves to collaborative working and other new procurement routes carry with them a suggestion that collaborative working is better because it makes good business sense. This book is the result of research into this hypothesis, and seeks to test the business case for collaborative working in the construction ... more »

This book considers the uses of membrane technology in the chloralkali, water, food and biotechnology industries where the major effect of the technology is an improvement in product quality often allied to a saving in energy consumption. It also covers the implications for the power generation, oil ... more »

... manufacturers and suppliers gives easy reference to all items. As well as a general update, new features for the easy-to-read 2005 edition include: * additional cladding features * new retaining and webbed walling systems * topiary * controlled droplet application (CDA) spraying * kerb drainage systems ... more »

The ever increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarising the results of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review has catered for this demand since its foundation ... more »

Smart Polymers for Bioseparation and Bioprocessing addresses an entirely novel theory that advocates a much more active role for smart polymers than has previously been envisioned, and therefore focuses on the role of these smart polymers within bioseparation. With contributions from the leading researchers ... more »

This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for more »

The construction industry is an information-intensive sector and low levels of productivity are often blamed on inadequate integration of information. This book shows how the differenct types and sources of information can be integrated to benefit individual construction projects, construction companies ... more »

A state-of-the-art summary of recent developments in the behaviour, analysis and design of seismic resistant steel frames. Much more than a simple background volume, it gives the most recent results which can be used in the near future to improve the codified recommendations for steel structures in seismic ... more »