Author: ICE ISBN: 0727715712 / 9780727715715 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
This is an analysis of the issues involved in assessing the viability of barrage construction with particular reference to the Severn barrage and the Mersey tidal project. The book explores the proj...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727715860 / 9780727715869 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
Pumped storage has become increasingly important in the electricity supply industry in coping with sudden peak demands and stabilizing frequency. It has proven a particularly cost-effective way of p...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727703943 / 9780727703941 Year: 1987 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the effects of the Chernobyl disaster. It describes the accident sequence, the radiological consequences in the USSR, and looks at an estimation of the radiation situation in East...
Author: CABE ISBN: 0727733982 / 9780727733986 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Better Places to Work is concerned with those elements of the design and development of workplaces that the planning system can influence. It explores issues around location, the public realm, archi...
Author: P. Gallacher ISBN: 0727733443 / 9780727733443 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
The public space of neighbourhoods merits as much, if not greater, care than that currently being lavished on the urban cores. Good neighbourhood space is not only a matter of resources, will, or de...
Author: J. Pascoe, P. Culley ISBN: 072773217X / 9780727732170 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
The extraordinary global revolution in stadium development has seen no fewer than 35 brand-new stadiums recently constructed in the UK alone.
The authors state that creating and running a stadium...
Author: Michael Collins ISBN: 0727732811 / 9780727732811 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
The first fifty years of photography's history coincided with the 'Golden Age' of civil engineering. This was the era of the railway boom, with it's unprecedented volume of bridge construction, whe...
Author: ODPM and Home Office ISBN: 0727732617 / 9780727732613 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Sustainable communities are communities which succeed now economically, socially and environmentally, and respect the needs of future generations. They are also well-designed places where people fe...
Author: Wanda J Lewis ISBN: 0727732366 / 9780727732361 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
The tension structures discussed in this book are predominantly roofing forms created from pre-stressed cable nets, cable trusses, and continuous membranes (fabric structures). A unique feature in t...
Author: Andrew King, Prof. Dr Alan Griffith ISBN: 0727732188 / 9780727732187 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
There is increasing pressure upon clients, in particular government departments and local authorities, to procure construction projects in a best practice manner. ‘Design and Build’ is o...
Author: CABE ISBN: 0727732080 / 9780727732088 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
“We do not want to repeat recent mistakes – soulless estates, cramped housing and inefficient neighbourhood layouts. We want to see houses where people aspire to live and stay. Investing...
Author: Branka Dimitrijevic, David Langford ISBN: 0727731483 / 9780727731487 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Many innovations in the UK construction industry are developed in response to the government initiatives based on the Egan Report. This publication provides a background and profile of innovations i...
Author: Construction Industry Council ISBN: 0727731289 / 9780727731289 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
The benefits delivered by well-designed business premises are often intangible and thus overlooked in favour of low cost solutions. Current market-based approaches to property valuations frequently ...
Author: Civil Engineering Special Issue ISBN: 0727719394 / 9780727719393 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The seven refereed papers in this special issue of ICE Proceedings cover the planning, design and construction of the UK terminal buildings of the £10 billion Channel Tunnel project. Written by seni...
Author: Robert E Bartlett ISBN: 0727725823 / 9780727725820 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
The modern engineer has two key tasks: successfully completing projects and working to win the next one. In the past, a proposal may have been little more than a brief letter, accompanied by one or ...
Author: Royal Fine Art Commission ISBN: 0727725688 / 9780727725684 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This publication presents papers by architects, academics and an estates officer who all have practical experience of commissioning and designing buildings for new and established universities.
T...
Author: Comite Euro-international Du Beton ISBN: 0727735667 / 9780727735669 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
Although a large number of fastenings assembles are installed every day, understanding in the engineering community of their behaviour is limited, and there is no generally accepted design method. D...
Author: Scott Wilson Kirkpatrick, Stephen Vincent ISBN: 0727725971 / 9780727725974 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Civil engineers have always been pioneers, with a reputation for applying innovation when creating the infrastructure of cities and transport systems which we have all come to rely upon. Yet, when i...
Author: ICE ISBN: 072771340X / 9780727713407 Year: 1988 Availability: Out of Stock
This book addresses the techniques and products currently available to civil engineers, reviewing their features and highlighting advantages and deficiencies. Case histories of users may be of parti...
Author: C W A Browitt, P A Merriman ISBN: 072771936X / 9780727719362 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
It has been estimated that, as a result of natural disasters, during the 1970s and 1980s three million lives were lost worldwide, the number of disasters increased threefold, the economic losses per...
Author: Site Investigation Steering Group ISBN: 0727735055 / 9780727735058 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
Effective Site Investigation provides an introductory guide to accepted best practice for site investigations, both for construction professionals such as civil and structural engineers, builders an...
Author: Amanda Stubbs, Christopher Dering, Masons ISBN: 0727730959 / 9780727730954 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Environmental Law for the Construction Industry is an introduction to the wide subject of environmental law as it affects the construction industry. Changes in the structure of contracting arrangeme...
Author: Moray D Newlands, Mukesh C Limbachiya, Ravindra K Dhir ISBN: 0727729934 / 9780727729934 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Vast quantities of used paper are discarded every day despite the technology existing to recover and recycle the material. Throughout the world, a number of legislative and industry-led initiatives,...
Author: Mukesh C Limbachiya, Ravindra K Dhir, Thomas D Dyer ISBN: 0727729942 / 9780727729941 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
The necessity for adopting sustainable practices is becoming increasingly clear, and the recovery of maximum value from surplus glass cullet is a key component in this. The concrete construction ind...
