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Completely revised throughout for this second edition, Managing
Quality in Architecture addresses the new ISO 9001 standards after
the significant 2015 revision. ISO 9001 is the global standard for
quality, and firms certified under the 2008 edition have three
years to upgrade their quality systems to the new Standard. This
book helps architects, engineers and other designers working in the
built environment to develop appropriate quality systems that meet
the requirements of the international Standard. Importantly, the
2015 Standard integrates risk management with quality, something
that earlier versions did not. Risk is an extremely important
factor in professional design practice, and this important element
is fully explored in the new edition. Similarly, the role of BIM in
quality management is addressed as an integral part of practice.
International contributions from the USA and Australia provide
expertise in each topic, and case studies from the USA, Japan,
Australia, New Zealand and the United Nations Office of Project
Services provide easy-to-follow illustrations of the important
areas to understand. The focus is completely practical, rather than
theoretical, affording readers a concise picture of how the issues
of excellence and quality performance flow across every aspect of
design practice.
Completely revised throughout for this second edition, Managing
Quality in Architecture addresses the new ISO 9001 standards after
the significant 2015 revision. ISO 9001 is the global standard for
quality, and firms certified under the 2008 edition have three
years to upgrade their quality systems to the new Standard. This
book helps architects, engineers and other designers working in the
built environment to develop appropriate quality systems that meet
the requirements of the international Standard. Importantly, the
2015 Standard integrates risk management with quality, something
that earlier versions did not. Risk is an extremely important
factor in professional design practice, and this important element
is fully explored in the new edition. Similarly, the role of BIM in
quality management is addressed as an integral part of practice.
International contributions from the USA and Australia provide
expertise in each topic, and case studies from the USA, Japan,
Australia, New Zealand and the United Nations Office of Project
Services provide easy-to-follow illustrations of the important
areas to understand. The focus is completely practical, rather than
theoretical, affording readers a concise picture of how the issues
of excellence and quality performance flow across every aspect of
design practice.
Highlighting the challenges RF and microwave circuit designers face
in their day-to-day tasks, RF and Microwave Circuits, Measurements,
and Modeling explores RF and microwave circuit designs in terms of
performance and critical design specifications. The book discusses
transmitters and receivers first in terms of functional circuit
block and then examines each block individually. Separate articles
consider fundamental amplifier issues, low noise amplifiers, power
amplifiers for handset applications and high power, power
amplifiers. Additional chapters cover other circuit functions
including oscillators, mixers, modulators, phase locked loops,
filters and multiplexers.
New chapters discuss high-power PAs, bit error rate testing, and
nonlinear modeling of heterojunction bipolar transistors, while
other chapters feature new and updated material that reflects
recent progress in such areas as high-volume testing, transmitters
and receivers, and CAD tools.
The unique behavior and requirements associated with RF and
microwave systems establishes a need for unique and complex models
and simulation tools. The required toolset for a microwave circuit
designer includes unique device models, both 2D and 3D
electromagnetic simulators, as well as frequency domain based small
signal and large signal circuit and system simulators. This unique
suite of tools requires a design procedure that is also
distinctive. This book examines not only the distinct design tools
of the microwave circuit designer, but also the design procedures
that must be followed to use them effectively.
The Burren and the Aran Islands are renowned worldwide for their
beautiful wild flowers and plants. Charles Nelson has selected 136
of the most widely occurring plus a number of special plants. By
illustrating each plant with a colour photograph, showing it in the
wild alongside space to record the place and date of discovery,
this becomes a souvenir of rambles in search of wild flowers.
Introduced by short chapters on the region plus user instructions,
the photographs are grouped according to flower colour and pages
are colour-coded so one can flick to the appropriate section.
Hardy Heathers is a fully illustrated monograph that describes all
Calluna, Daboecia and those Erica species that grow naturally in
the northern hemisphere. Distribution, history, conservation,
classification and cultivation are covered in detail, making this
an indispensable book for the heather enthusiast, professional
nurseryman, landscape architect, gardener, botanist, ecologist and
conservationist with interests in heaths and heath lands. The close
collaboration between the author and the renowned botanical artist
Christabel King make this book an outstanding contribution to the
art of botanical illustration.
In 1712, English naturalist Mark Catesby (1683-1749) crossed the
Atlantic to Virginia. After a seven-year stay, he returned to
England with paintings of plants and animals he had studied. They
sufficiently impressed other naturalists that in 1722 several
Fellows of the Royal Society sponsored his return to North America.
There Catesby cataloged the flora and fauna of the Carolinas and
the Bahamas by gathering seeds and specimens, compiling notes, and
making watercolor sketches. Going home to England after five years,
he began the twenty-year task of writing, etching, and publishing
his monumental The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the
Bahama Islands. Mark Catesby was a man of exceptional courage and
determination combined with insatiable curiosity and multiple
talents. Nevertheless no portrait of him is known. The
international contributors to this volume review Catesby's
biography alongside the historical and scientific significance of
his work. Ultimately, this lavishly illustrated volume advances
knowledge of Catesby's explorations, collections, artwork, and
publications in order to reassess his importance within the
pantheon of early naturalists.
Essays investigating the idea of natural heritage and the ways in
which it has changed over time. The concepts of nature, culture and
heritage are deeply entwined; their threads run together in some of
our finest museums, in accounts of exploration and discovery, in
the work of artists, poets and writers, and in areas that
arecherished and protected because of their landscapes and
wildlife. The conservation ethic - placing a value on the natural
environment - lies at the heart of the notion of "natural
heritage", but we need to question how those values originated,
were consolidated and ultimately moulded and changed over time. In
a contemporary context the connections between nature and culture
have sometimes become lost, fragmented, dislocated or
misunderstood; where did "natural heritage" begin and how do we
engage with the idea of "nature" today? The essays collected here
re-evaluate the role of culture in developing the concept of
natural heritage, reflecting on the shifts in its interpretation
over the last 300 years. Contributors: Martin Holdgate, Marie
Addyman, E. Charles Nelson, Darrell Smith, Andrew Ramsey, Viktor
Kouloumpis, Richard Milner, Gina Douglas, Penny Bradshaw, Arthur
MacGregor, Chiara Nepi, Hannah Paddon, Stephen Hewitt, Gordon
McGregor Reid, Ghillean T Prance, Peter Davis, Christopher
Donaldson, Lucy McRobert, Sophie Darlington, Keith Scholey, Paul A.
Roncken, Angus Lunn, Juliet Clutton-Brock, Tim Sands, Robert A.
Lambert, James Champion, Erwin van Maanen, Heather Prince, Chris
Loynes, Julie Taylor, Sarah Elmeligi, Samantha Finn, Owen Nevin,
Jared Bowers, Kate Hennessy, Natasha Lyons, Mike Jeffries.
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