"The author's intent is to provide essential information useful both to those studying materials and methods of construction for the first time and to seasoned professionals concerned with advancing their design at a time when the consumption of natural resources and the consequ…
This book provides a comprehensive understanding on disaster resilient housing within the Vietnam context particularly and the developing world generally. The book has identified the root causes of housing vulnerability, restrictions to safe housing development, concepts of disa…
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Façades: Principles of Construction
by Knaack, Ulrich, Klein, Tillmann, Bilow, Marcel, Auer, Thomas
Facades: principles of construction
by Knaack, Ulrich, Klein, Tillmann, Bilow, Marcel, Auer, Thomas
This book demonstrates the principles of facade construction. Guidelines are suggested for good detailing. The installation procedures are described for the most common materials - glass, wood, steel, concrete, and aluminum. Numerous drawings made specially for the book explain …
Façades: principles of construction
by Knaack, Ulrich, Klein, Tillmann, Bilow, Marcel, Auer, Thomas
Sponsored by the Technical Council on Lifeline Earthquake Engineering of ASCE On May 12, 2008, an earthquake with an epicenter in Yingxiu struck a mountainous region 90 km northwest of Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China, and affected an estimated 4.6 million people. Extensive and …
This volume compiles the work coordinated by the Scheduling Excellence Initiative Committee (SEI) to improve standardization and provide best practice guidelines for scheduling processes in the construction industry. It serves as a guide for all schedulers and planners from entr…
"Guide provides assistance in the design of UFAD systems that are energy efficient, intelligently operated, and effective in their performance. It also describes important research results that support current thinking on UFAD design"--
"Gives data center facility designers and manufacturers a clear understanding of their facilities' design needs and allows them to accurately predict the equipment loads their facilities will need to accommodate. Also includes air and liquid cooling options that may be considere…
Contracts are vital to the construction delivery process; they direct and govern every move. This book strips the legal mystique and jargon from contracts and exposes their basic logic.
