Product Info A guide for builders, surveyors and clients on how to specify and describe minor building works. more »

ALL THE DATA YOU NEED FOR SPECTRUM PLANNING -- IN ONE SOURCE Instead of poring through records of proceedings, federal code, and technical publications, quickly access essential information on that prime but invisible expanse of real estate, the public airwaves. In Wireless Spectrum Finder, veteran industry ... more »

Provides a comprehensive, practical examination of the wind loading of structures. Fundamentals of wind loading are described in detail, with the author discussing the nature of wind, prediction of wind speed and force, dynamic response of buildings, and successful design of buildings to counteract wind ... more »

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A theoretical and practical understanding of unbalance and misalignment in rotating equipment is presented here. These two conditions account for the vast majority of problems with rotating equipment encountered in the real world.;Numerous examples and solutions are included to assist in understanding ... more »

Now revised and updated, Industrialized and Automated Building Systems presents a detailed and balanced evaluation of the benefits and drawbacks of industrialized building systems, and covers: technological, managerial and economical aspects of industrialization automation in the industrialized building ... more »

'Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization--the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating ... more » more »

This second edition of Design of Structural Steelwork presents the essential design aspects of steel as a structural material. It has been carefully revised and updated to provide a modern introduction to the subject, assuming only a basic knowledge of structural analysis and solid mechanics. more »

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Developing countries in the tropics have different natural conditions and different institutional and financial situations to industrialized countries. However, most textbooks on highway engineering are based on experience from industrialized countries with temperate climates, and deal only with specific ... more »

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

A wide ranging and up-to-date review of experience of tunnelling contracts, particularly those for sewerage and drainage tunnels. The review is based on the 6th edition of the ICE Conditions of Contract, but it takes note of new forms of contract which are leading towards less adversarial contractual ... more »