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Providing access to all the latest information within the area, on these pages you will find information from the list which covers Building Project Management, Building Services Engineering, Building Techniques, Construction Management, Law, Construction Materials and Building Regulations.
This eighth edition of Hall and Greeno's leading textbook has been reviewed and updated in relation to the latest building and water regulations, new technology, and new legislation, and even more design calculations have been added. In addition, topics such as: alternative sources of…
Paperback – 2015-08-12
Routledge
Are you unsure about: the current US legal environment with respect to BIM and VDC? the evolving standards of care for design and construction professionals using BIM and VDC? what practical methods and techniques can be used for analyzing construction claims and disputes involving BIM…
Hardback – 2015-06-28
Routledge
This is a definitive guide to the rebound effect in home heating – the increase in energy service use after a technological intervention aimed at reducing consumption. It sets out what the effect is, how it plays out in the home heating sector, what this implies for energy saving initiatives in…
Paperback – 2015-06-17
Routledge
Building Research and Information
Successfully managing your JCT contracts is a must, and this handy reference is the swiftest way to doing just that. Making reference to best practice throughout, the JCT Standard Building Contracts SBC/Q, DB and MW are used as examples to take you through all the essential contract administration…
Paperback – 2015-06-16
Routledge
Routledge Pocket Books
Whether a construction project turns out to be successful or not has a lot to do with the clarity of the client’s objectives and how the client establishes and instils a culture throughout the project team. This book's focus is on defining and exploring those attributes of clients or organisations…
Paperback – 2015-05-07
Routledge
The fifth edition of this bestselling textbook has been thoroughly revised to provide the most up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of the legislation, administration and management of construction contracts. It now includes comparisons of working with JCT, NEC3, and FIDIC contracts throughout.…
Paperback – 2015-04-19
Routledge
Lighting can affect the health of people in buildings. This goes beyond the safety aspects of providing enough illumination to see by; lighting affects mood and human circadian rhythms, while poor lighting can, in principle, cause glare, headaches, eyestrain, skin conditions and various types of…
Paperback – 2015-07-17
IHS BRE Press
With more than half of the world's population now living in urban areas, it is vitally important that towns and cities are healthy places to live. The principal aim of this book is to synthesize the disparate literature on the use of vegetation in the built environment and its multifunctional…
Paperback – 2015-07-15
Routledge
This practical guide to cost studies of buildings has been updated and revised throughout for the 6th edition. New developments in RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM) are incorporated throughout the book, in addition to new material on e-business, the internet, social media, building information…
Paperback – 2015-07-15
Routledge
Read our interview with Charles W. Cook, author of Successful Contract Administration, as he discusses the book and offers some words of wisdom regarding successful contract administrators.
Author Paul Chatterton, co-founder of Lilac (Low Impact Living Affordable Community), spoke to Routledge about his new book, Low Impact Living. This book is the inspirational story of one project that shows you how you can become involved in building and running your neighbourhood. Chatterton, along with other members of the community and the project team, explains how a group of people got together to build one of the most pioneering ecological, affordable cohousing neighbourhoods in the world.
Daniel Safarik, CTBUH editor and co-author of Best Tall Buildings: A Global Overview of 2014 Skyscrapers, discusses his new title and what's trending in the tall-buildings field.
David Chappell, author of Construction Contracts: Questions and Answers, 3rd Edition, discusses what's new in his recently published edition and the experiences that led him to write the book.
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Here you can discover brand new books on subjects including the New Rules of Measurement, construction delays, materials, the new building regulations, environmental health, adjudication, cost management, and mathematics for construction. You will find whatever you need to further your own research or professional interests, challenge and support your students, or to provide essential reference materials for your institutional library.
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