Author: J Clarke ISBN: 0727719181 / 9780727719188 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
During the 1980's a number of high quality, large scale pile tests, sponsored by the offshore industry, Department of Energy and EEC, were performed at onshore locations in clays similar to those en...
Author: John King, Stephen Corbet ISBN: 0727719246 / 9780727719249 Year: 1993 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume reviews the uses of geotextiles filters, and their design, specification and testing for use in filtration and drainage. Case studies of successes and difficulties with geotextile filter...
Author: R J Chandler ISBN: 0727716603 / 9780727716606 Year: 1991 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume draws on the experience and extensive research of an international authorship to bring together details on slope stability, causes of landslides, landslide prevention, new techniques for...
Author: A McGown, K C Yeo, K Z Andrawes ISBN: 0727716379 / 9780727716378 Year: 1991 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume discusses all aspects of the performance of reinforced soil structures and offers innovative design solutions to ensure the successful behaviour of these structures. It analyses the theo...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727715127 / 9780727715128 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
Drawing together a range of international experience in the techniques of planning, design and construction of submerged tubes, this book looks at the many uses of these tunnels - outside their prin...
Author: K Miller, T Ingold ISBN: 0727713337 / 9780727713339 Year: 1990 Availability: Out of Stock
"... a well-written introductory text to geotextile manufacture, testing and applications; in addition there is a detailed compendium of products. It is therefore of interest to students and practis...
Author: J.K. Budleigh ISBN: 0727713477 / 9780727713476 Year: 1989 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is a general introduction to trench excavation and support for engineers. It is a concise guide for all those involved in this potentially hazardous area of construction....
Author: Mike Chrimes, Will Howie ISBN: 072770396X / 9780727703965 Year: 1987 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides 150 years of civil engineering as seen through a selection of some of the most influential papers published in the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers between two gr...
Author: CEB FIP ISBN: 0727702653 / 9780727702654 Year: 1986 Availability: Out of Stock
This state of the art report summarizes the mechanisms and types of corrosion to which a ground anchorage based on a prestressing tendon can be subjected. The chemical, electrochemical and bacterial...
Author: John Carpenter ISBN: 0727758225 / 9780727758224 Year: 2013 Availability: Out of Stock
Forensic Engineering: Informing the Future with Lessons from the Past is the published proceedings from the Institution of Civil Engineers’ Fifth International Conference on Forensic Engineeri...
Author: R. Joyce ISBN: 0727734962 / 9780727734969 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
Master the most radical changes in construction law since 1994 and avoid the penalties of non-compliance
Detailed analysis of individual roles
This book is the comprehensive guide to the obligat...
Author: Ian Cruickshank, Stephen Cork ISBN: 0727733451 / 9780727733450 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Over £500 million is spent on coastal and maritime construction in the UK every year. This work is particularly hazardous due to the hostile environment and uncertainty caused by the combination of ...
Author: H S Shaw, R G P Hawkins ISBN: 0727732757 / 9780727732750 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
"This is the start of an enormous change in waste – both a challenge and an opportunity"
John Burns, Waste Implementation Programme Director, DEFRA*
In 2004 the UK Government was faced wit...
Author: Dr. Simon Joyston-Bechal, Helen Grice ISBN: 0727731238 / 9780727731234 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
This new edition highlights the main health and safety duties in a convenient and readable format, and provides extensive bibliographies that identify any related legislation and approved codes of p...
Author: Pat Perry ISBN: 0727732390 / 9780727732392 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Fire safety is one of the most important aspects of health and safety to get right as the consequences of not doing so can be catastrophic in both terms of human life and business cost.
Each chap...
Author: B S Neale ISBN: 0727730940 / 9780727730947 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Forensic engineering encompasses any engineering discipline that has the potential to be used for the technical investigation of failures. This volume presents papers from leading experts on how to ...
Author: John Barber ISBN: 0727731181 / 9780727731180 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
All civil engineers and construction professionals concerned with the construction process have both professional and legal duties to take care, not only of their own health and safety at work, but ...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727727877 / 9780727727879 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
Forensic engineering is a broadly defined term used to describe the technical investigation of failures that lead, or may lead, to either civil or criminal legal proceedings. These proceedings centr...
Author: Martin Barnard ISBN: 0727726013 / 9780727726018 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This is an essential reference book for engineers, providing comprehensive coverage of health and safety, and incorporating the latest thinking. For legal and ethical reasons engineers must commit ...
Author: Barry Lewis ISBN: 0415621119 / 9780415621113 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Farmers are well aware of the need to boost productivity. In the face of the greater competition for domestic and overseas markets, the farmer who wants to succeed has to tak a business approach to ...
Author: Ken Tomasin, Vic Davies ISBN: 072772519X / 9780727725196 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is an essential guide for all construction industry professionals, whose duty it is to preserve the health, safety and welfare of others by effective design and management.
The authors ...
Author: J. Shipway, R. Paxton ISBN: 0727734474 / 9780727734471 Year: 2007 Availability: Out of Stock
Together, these two books give a concise account of much of the surviving work of civil engineers throughout Scotland from pre-history up until 1980. It includes bridges, lighthouses, canals, roads,...
Author: Dr. Judith Halliday, Mrs Erika Csetenyi, Prof. Ravindra K Dhir ISBN: 0727734105 / 9780727734105 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Concrete is at something of a crossroads: there are many opportunities and some threats. For those opportunities to change into beneficial practice, engineers, material scientists, architects manuf...
Author: David Bennett ISBN: 0727720058 / 9780727720054 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
This is a state-of-the-art summary on recent developments in construction, design and the innovation in concrete technology. It describes, in an accessible form, a number of building studies where s...
Author: David Gann ISBN: 0727725963 / 9780727725967 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
In order to deliver value, maintain competitiveness and remain profitable, construction professionals need to develop their capabilities for managing innovation and technical change.
This new boo...
