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A Best Seller for over two decades and the only publication of its kind in Southern Africa!
The objective of this Building Industry Bible is to provide a comprehensive construction costing and specification tool to anyone involved in the Building and Construction Industries. For 24 years now the Building and Pricing guide has played a vital role as a standalone solution by providing an A-Z guide to the construction process,
its resources and their related costs.
The Building and Pricing Guide appeals to the broadest market of any publication in this industry: It forms a powerful educational tool to all involved in the Building Industry and is a solid guide for property owners, developers and owner builders in decision making regarding new projects. It provides a solid insight to industry
standards and specifications and new products to professional involved in construction. Even to the higher end of the market, where it aids large construction companies in quantifying and specifying for small works which are an integral part to any large project.
Explore the most up-to-date green methods for residential and
commercial building construction, along with the construction
materials and properties needed to carry them out with this newly
revised book. CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS, METHODS AND TECHNIQUES:
BULDING FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE, International Edition offers
comprehensive coverage of these topics and presents them using a
logical, well-structured format that follows the natural sequence
of a construction project. With an emphasis on providing the most
current information available, including sustainability and green
design, this third edition is fully equipped with content that
reflects the 2004 Edition of Construction Specifications Institute
(CSI) MasterFormat and information that is based on the input of
hundreds of today's top manufacturers and professional and trade
organizations. In addition, relevant building codes are frequently
referenced, rounding out this need-to-know coverage that is
critical to success in the industry.
Resources designed to support learners of the 2010 BTEC Level 3
National Construction and the Built Environment specification.
Covers all mandatory and specialists units for the certificate in
the Construction and the Built Environment pathway, and all the
mandatory units for the award in all the pathways. WorkSpace case
studies take learners into the real world of work, showing them how
they can apply their knowledge in a real-life context. Advice from
former students on how current learners can make their BTEC
experience a stepping stone to success. Straightforward accessible
language is used with short text chunks, keeping content engaging
for learners.
The success of any concrete structure depends on the designer's
sound knowledge of concrete and its behaviour under load, under
temperature and humidity changes, and under exposure to the
relevant environment and industrial conditions. This book gives
students a thorough understanding of all aspects of concrete
technology from first principles. It covers concrete ingredients,
properties and behaviour in the finished structure with reference
to national standards and recognised testing methods used in
Britain, the European Union and the United States. Examples and
problems are given throughout to emphasise the important aspects of
each chapter. An excellent coursebook for all students of Civil
Engineering, Structural Engineering and Building at degree or
diploma level, Concrete Technology will also be a valuable
reference book for practising engineers in the field.
BTEC's own resources to accompany the 2010 specification
Foundation Design and Construction has long been established as the
most comprehensive and authoritative guide to the subject. The
combination of soil engineering principles, design information, and
construction details, makes this book an essential resource for
undergraduates and practitioners alike. The text first introduces
basic theory and then, by means of case studies, practical worked
examples and design charts, develops an in-depth understanding of
foundation design and construction methods. Types of foundation
covered include shallow strip, pad and raft, basement structures,
driven and bored piles, and deep shafts. Practical information is
also given on foundation design for swelling and shrinking clays,
filled ground and mining subsidence areas. In addition the text
contains a useful introduction to computer-aided design.The seventh
edition has been brought up-to-date with recent developments in
foundation design and construction techniques. These include recent
research undertaken by the Construction Industry Research and
Development Association (CIRIA) leading to new methods and design
rules, and a discussion of the requirements for the latest draft of
Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design.
For all courses in construction accounting and construction
finance, and for courses in engineering economics taught in
construction management programs. This book helps construction
professionals and construction management students master the
principles of financial management, and adapt and apply them to the
challenge of profitably managing construction companies. It
integrates content that has traditionally been taught through
separate accounting, finance, and engineering economics texts.
Students learn how to account for a construction company's
financial resources; how to manage its costs, profits, and cash
flows; how to evaluate different sources of funding a company's
cash needs; and how to quantitatively analyze financial decisions.
Readers gain hands-on experience through 220 example problems and
over 390 practice problems, many of them based on situations
actually encountered by the author. This edition adds more than 100
new discussion questions, and presents financial equations and
accounting transactions more visually to support more intuitive
learning.
Route 66 is a beloved and much studied symbol of twentieth-century
America. But until now, no book has focused on the bridges that
spanned the rivers, creeks, arroyos, and railroads between Chicago
and Santa Monica. In this handsome volume, Route 66 authority and
veteran writer and photographer Jim Ross examines the origins and
history of the bridges of America's most famous highway, structures
designed to overcome obstacles to travel, many of them engineered
with architectural aesthetics now lost to time. Featuring hundreds
of Ross's own photographs, Route 66 Crossings showcases bridges
ranging in design from timber to steel and concrete, and provides
schematics, maps, and global coordinates to help readers identify
and locate them. Ross's comprehensive accounting of structures
along the Mother Road's various alignments includes bridges still
in use, those that have vanished or have been abandoned, and the
few consciously preserved as monuments. He also recognizes
ancillary structures that enhanced safety and helped facilitate
traffic, such as railway grade separations, tunnels, and pedestrian
underpasses. Ross seeks to encourage ongoing preservation of the
structures that remain. In brilliant color and precise detail,
Route 66 Crossings expands our knowledge of the bridges that linked
America's first all-weather national highway.
The updated edition of the authoritative and comprehensive guide to
construction practice The revised fourth edition of Barry's
Advanced Construction of Buildings expands on the resource that has
become a standard text on the construction of buildings. The fourth
edition covers the construction of larger-scale buildings
(primarily residential, commercial and industrial) constructed with
load bearing frames in timber, concrete and steel; supported by
chapters on offsite construction, piling, envelopes to framed
buildings, fit-out and second fix, lifts and escalators, building
pathology, upgrading and demolition. The author covers the
functional and performance requirements of the main building
elements as well as building efficiency and information on meeting
the challenges of limiting the environmental impact of buildings.
Each chapter includes new "at a glance" summaries that introduce
the basic material giving a good understanding of the main points
quickly and easily. The text is fully up to date with the latest
building regulations and construction technology. This important
resource: Covers design, technology, offsite construction, site
assembly and environmental issues of larger-scale buildings
including primarily residential, commercial and industrial
buildings constructed with load bearing frames Highlights the
concept of building efficiency, with better integration of the
topics throughout the text Offers new "at a glance" summaries at
the beginning of each chapter Is a companion to Barry's
Introduction to Construction of Buildings, fourth edition Written
for undergraduate students and those working towards similar NQF
level 5 and 6 qualifications in building and construction, Barry's
Advanced Construction of Buildings is a practical and highly
illustrated guide to construction practice. It covers the materials
and technologies involved in constructing larger scale buildings.
Contemporary events have shown that buildings designed to modern
day codes need to be able to resist accidental extreme actions such
as impact, explosions, weather, chemical and seismic events. This
is one of the reasons for the present reviewing of the Eurocodes
used to design concrete structures. The definition of the use of
concrete used in extreme environments is difficult, but extreme
events are usually defined as those rare events which occur at the
extreme ends of the statistical distribution in a particular
situation. Often the clients who order the concrete structures are
unable to determine the extremes of environments the concrete will
encounter and rely on the designers and construction companies to
be able to predict the service conditions.
There is a growing interest in the use of wood in new building, not
least because it has low embodied energy and it is an infinitely
renewable resource. Despite a great deal of innovation in the use
of wood in construction in recent years, the fundamentals of using
this natural material have not really changed: the different types
of wood have different properties and differing responses to the
environment in which they are used. When used correctly, wood is an
excellent building material but when inappropriately specified or
used, it may cause problems. Poor understanding of the properties
of wood and the many species and grades that are commercially
available can result in this versatile material performing below
expectation, and certainly less well than could have been achieved
with greater understanding about how best to use it. How Wood Works
is a combination of the author's two previous books, into one
comprehensive volume. Revised and updated material to deal with the
essentials of structural design and building in timber, in a
sustainable manner while reflecting on changes in Standards and
other Regulations and expanding on certain technical areas - such
as more detailed wood science and wood structure.
By the mid-nineteenth century, efforts to modernize and
industrialize Mexico City had the unintended consequence of
exponentially increasing the risk of fire while also breeding a
culture of fear. Through an array of archival sources, Anna Rose
Alexander argues that fire became a catalyst for social change, as
residents mobilized to confront the problem. Advances in
engineering and medicine soon fostered the rise of distinct fields
of fire-related expertise while conversely, the rise of
fire-profiteering industries allowed entrepreneurs to capitalize on
crisis. City on Fire demonstrates that both public and private
engagements with fire risk highlight the inequalities that
characterized Mexican society at the turn of the twentieth century.
This text provides a broad view of the research performed in
building physics at the start of the 21st century. The focus of
this conference was on combined heat and mass flow in building
components, performance-based design of building enclosures, energy
use in buildings, sustainable construction, users' comfort and
health, and the urban micro-climate.
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