Introducing the basics of infrastructure design and construction, this textbook offers an primer on civil construction. From the initial bid to a megaprojects final stages, this accessible guide to the construction managers role on a heavy civil con...Loe edasi...
This book lays out the evolution of the often contested Construction Management discipline, covering the what, where and who of research in this emerging field....Loe edasi...
This Handbook presents opportunities, best practices, and case studies backed by cutting edge research on the drivers of continuous improvement of health, safety and wellbeing in the Architecture, Engineering, Construction and Facility Management se...Loe edasi...
This book provides an overview of the latest research achievements of the design possibilities that 3DP for construction (3DC) can offer in the various fields of construction, particularly architecture and engineering....Loe edasi...
Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract uses plain English to lead the reader through the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contracts key features. This is one of the most widely used contracts in the UK and internationally....Loe edasi...
This book covers developing trends and changes occurring in the Quantity Surveying profession. It explains construction industry structure followed by the quantity surveying practice modalities, professional ethics, roles of regulatory bodies, conti...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1986, The Permafrost Environment is a comprehensive review of the nature of the permafrost environment and its utilization. It looks at environmental processes and their effects and examines the management problems which resu...Loe edasi...
Massimo Pica explains the fundamentals of project life cycle economics and how they apply in the context of complex modern construction. This is an essential guide for those involved in construction project design, tendering and contracting to help...Loe edasi...
This book calls for those interested in robust construction research to embrace ethnography in all its forms, including rapid ethnographies, ethnographic-action research, autoethnography, as well as longer-term ethnographies...Loe edasi...
Innovations, Disruptions and Future Trends in the Global Construction Industry examines current and futuristic developments in the construction industry hinged on the Construction industrial fourth and fifth revolution, otherwise known as constructi...Loe edasi...
This book on biomimcry assessment tools studies the concepts of sustainability, sustainable construction practices, and the evaluation categories that constitute a sustainablity assessment tool. It is important reading for academics, professionals,...Loe edasi...
This book highlights the latest trends and advances in applications of digital technologies in construction engineering and management. A collection of articles is presented, explicating how advanced technological solutions can innovatively address...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the utilization of the wastes produced from plastic usage by industry and consumers along with the partial to full replacement of conventional cement as a primary binder material in concrete. The primary aim is to show the metho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2023, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781032649566)
Updated companion guide that provides practitioners with the required knowledge regarding site safety, hazards and design risk management....Loe edasi...
The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ethical practice. The fifth edition of New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice intro...Loe edasi...
This book presents a brand new, comprehensive, and reliable quantitative tool to assess the performance of a construction project manager....Loe edasi...
Pursuing historical analogies between nineteenth-century theories and the current practices captivated by digital reproducibility, this book offers a critical take on architectures contemporaneity through four essays: tectonics, materiality, claddin...Loe edasi...
This book presents a systems-based approach to Construction Project Management that will facilitate a greater understanding of the complexity of large construction projects and how that complexity can be effectively managed with the knowledge gained...Loe edasi...
This book examines how safety failings during the use of any designed product or system be it a car, a building or a chemical plant can be mitigated through effective understanding of the conditions and controls surrounding its use....Loe edasi...
This book introduces and develops the novel concept of Lean Construction 4.0. The chapters provide practitioners and academics with a provocative reflection on the theoretical and practical aspects that shape the Lean Construction 4.0 concept....Loe edasi...
Sustainable Nanomaterials for the Construction Industry examines applications of sustainable nanomaterials used in the building construction sector. The chapters focus on sustainable construction materials using nanotechnology such as pigments, modi...Loe edasi...
This textbook takes a distinctively systems approach to the principles of risk, uncertainty and risk management, outlining a series of applications and more specialist tools and approaches. It offers a rational treatment of risk and risk management...Loe edasi...
This is a book about how to manage the processes involved in a construction project towards a sustainable and regenerative end-product. It covers key project management concepts and links the construction process to the objectives of UN SDGs and bey...Loe edasi...
Infrastructure Procurement and Funding explores the key models of procuring and financing major projects and infrastructure works whilst critically acknowledging the inherent challenges in successfully securing the necessary funding....Loe edasi...
This third book from editors Rick Best and Jim Meikle brings together and presents insights into a number of key concepts in the study of construction firms, projects and the group of activities that loosely define the construction industry....Loe edasi...
This book presents the fundamentals of project management in simple language and an easy-to-understand format. It is targeted principally at those who are learning or desiring to learn project management as well as those who are already taking proje...Loe edasi...
This book aims to share understanding of best practice in the industries associated with construction and related activities, recognising that effective work organisation and good standards of employee relations will vary from one location to anothe...Loe edasi...
