Building construction and materials Books
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe Builders Guide to Floors
Book SynopsisThis guide for builders focuses on flooring installation and its role in homebuilding projects. Case studies and inside tips cover floors of hardwood, tile, carpet and others for residential contractors and remodellers. Estimation advice is included.Table of ContentsTraditional floorcovering products; state-of-the-art products; installation procedures; indoor environmental health quality concerns; asbestos abatement; tools; residential versus commercial products/installations; contractor diversification; hardwood flooring; customer service; estimating and scheduling.
£20.15
McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing Insulation Handbook
£44.95
Penguin Random House LLC The Soundscape of Modernity Architectural Acoustics and the Culture of Listening in America 19001933 The MIT Press
£47.53
Yale University Press Medieval Architecture Medieval Learning Builders Masters in the Age of Romanesque Gothic Paper
Book SynopsisOffers fresh perspectives on changes in architecture and learning at three moments in time. The authors trace the professional contexts and activities of builders from the creation of the Romanesque to the Gothic and in the process establish a new criteria for defining each.Table of ContentsIntroduction - art history as intellectual history. Part 1 The 11th century: beginnings; masters; builders. Part 2 Four crucial decades: transformations - Abelard and Saint-Denis. Part 3 The later 12th century: an age of experiment; learning and the schools in the late 12th century; the first half-century of Gothic.
£32.67
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Building Quantities Explained Building and Surveying Series
Book SynopsisFormerly Emeritus Professor of The Nottingham Trent University, the late IVOR H. SEELEY held many external examining and advisory appointments with universities in the UK and overseas, as well as being external examiner to several professional bodies. He was a member of the RICS General Council continuously from 1970 and served on many other RICS councils and education committees over the years. As a former local government chief technical officer, he was responsible for extensive housing and other building developments; he also served at the Headquarters of the former Central Electricity Generating Board on power station contracts and with two firms of consultants. Author of 15 technical books, he was Series Editor of the Macmillan Building and Surveying Series. ROGER WINFIELD was Principal Lecturer in Quantity Surveying and Director of Studies in the Department of Surveying at Nottingham Trent University, UK.
£77.89
Springer Vibrations of Elastic Plates Linear and Nonlinear Dynamical Modeling of Sandwiches Laminated Composites and Piezoelectric Layers Mechanical Engineering
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£85.49
Springer Buckling and Postbuckling of Composite Plates
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£170.99
Taylor & Francis Ltd Materials Specification and Detailing Foundations
Book SynopsisContinuing in the holistic philosophy of the Technologies of Architecture series, this volume examines the various layers of knowledge, skills and mechanisms that make up the many approaches to the essential function of technical design in the creation of successful buildings.Well-illustrated with case studies, the author draws on his extensive experience in architectural education to provide a detailed description of the development process, acknowledging traditional solutions whilst also encouraging designers to consider innovative alternatives. Attention is paid to materials choices, detail design and specification writing.Students of architectural technology in particular, but also of architecture, building surveying and construction will find this syllabus-relevant title an invaluable asset in embracing their environmental responsibilities as designers and actively participating in the development of technical design language.Table of ContentsIntroduction Part 1: Technical Design Part 2: Communication of Information Part 3: Materials Part 4: Detailing Part 5: Specification
£226.22
iUniverse Training Reference Manual for Special Inspectors
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£16.59
iUniverse Some Assembly Required The Instruction Manual for Building a New Home
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£19.56
iUniverse What Every Woman Should Know about Building a Home and Men Too If They Would Listen
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£8.99
Elsevier Science & Technology Dust Explosion Prevention and Protection
Book SynopsisWritten for those responsible for the design, supply, and operation of process plants to help comply with the provisions of health and safety legislation, this guide is a compilation of current best practices for dust explosion prevention and containment.Trade Review...brings together the latest research results and recommendations for safe practice in the handling of explosible dusts and will undoubtedly become the new bible for practitioners, both equipment manufacturers and users, in this field. -Richard Roberts, tce-July 2002 The strength of the guide comes in its use of logic diagrams to help the reader identify the relevant aspects for particular situations. -Richard Roberts, tce-July 2002 ...the authors are to be congratulated on maintaining the ICHemE tradition of producing guidance in an easily readable and practical form. For anyone involved with dust explosion prevention and protection, whether new to the topic or existing practitioners, this book is a must. -Richard Roberts, tce-July 2002Table of ContentsBackground to Dust Explosions; Determination of Dust Fire and Explosion Characteristics; Control of Ignition; Inerting; Explosion Containment; Explosion Suppression; Explosion Venting; Explosion Venting of Linked Vessels; Explosion Venting--Supplementary Design Considerations; Explosion Venting--Special Dust Cloud Conditions; Explosion Venting--Design of Vent Closures; Explosion Venting--Safe Discharge Area; Explosion Venting in Industrial Plant; Equipment Separation and Isolation; Appendices
£139.46
AuthorHouse How To Avoid the Pitfalls Building Your Dream Home
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£11.67
Springer Trends in Structural Mechanics Theory Practice Education 54 Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
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£170.99
Springer Mechanics of Sandwich Structures Proceedings of the EUROMECH 360 Colloquium held in Sainttienne France 1315 May 1997
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£123.49
Springer IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods in Structural Mechanics Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Vienna Austria 26 June 1997 68 Solid Mechanics and Its Applications
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£123.49
Springer IUTAM Symposium on Smart Structures and Structronic Systems Solid Mechanics and Its Applications Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Magdeburg Germany 2629 September 2000 89
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£123.49
Chemical Publishing Company The Rotary Cement Kiln
Book SynopsisAn indispensable reference source and training tool not only for kiln operators, but for supervisors and management staff as well. Extensive discussions on pre-heater and pre-calciner operations are included. The appendix includes a section with conversion tables, definitions of common terms relating to rotary kilns, and a suggested outline for a training program for new operators.
£76.00
Books for Business Wood Frame House Construction
£23.70
Aka: Yola White Sky a Year in Saudi Arabia
£14.00
Legare Street Press Builders Handbook of Natco Hollow Tile Construction.
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£21.80
Legare Street Press A Treatise on the Construction of Staircases and Handrails ... Preceded by Some Necessary Problems in Practical Geometry With the Sections and Coverings of Prismatic Solids
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£22.75
Legare Street Press Builders Handbook of Natco Hollow Tile Construction.
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Legare Street Press The Farmer His Own Builder
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Legare Street Press A Treatise on the Construction of Staircases and
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Legare Street Press Report of Chicago Fire of March 15 1922 Embracing C. B.
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£13.22
Legare Street Press Coles Original Heaters From Chicago
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Legare Street Press Building Engineering News v.19 pt.1 Jan.June 1919
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£29.40
Legare Street Press Aladdin Manual of Construction
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Legare Street Press Problems in Carpentry a Course in Practical
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Legare Street Press Canadian Architect and Builder 6
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Legare Street Press Protection From Fire and Thieves
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Legare Street Press The Farmer His Own Builder
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Legare Street Press Specification Data Supplement 1914 microform
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Legare Street Press One Houseor a Hundred.
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Legare Street Press National Builder Construction Details. Seventytwo Plates of Architectural Details Representing Problems of Everyday Practice in Original Drawings and Selections From a Variety of Authoritative Sources the Whole Redrawn to a Uniform Style an
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Legare Street Press A Practical Treatise on Ventilation
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Legare Street Press Electric Gas and Combination Lighting Fixtures
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Legare Street Press New York City Record and Building Trades Directory p1
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Legare Street Press The Heating and Ventilating of Buildings
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Legare Street Press Sanitary Arrangements for Dwellings
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Legare Street Press Canadian Architect and Builder 4
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Legare Street Press Canadian Architect and Builder 1
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Legare Street Press The Elements of Building Construction and Architectural Drawing ...
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Legare Street Press Catalogue
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Legare Street Press Standard Roughingin Measurements
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Legare Street Press Elementary Principles of Carpentry
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Legare Street Press Smith Winchester Illustrated Catalogue
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£24.65