Author: Prof. H.R. Thomas ISBN: 0727734741 / 9780727734747 Year: 2006 Availability: Out of Stock
This set of books presents the proceedings of the International Society of Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering's (ISSMGE) 5th International Congress on Environmental Geotechnics, held in Wal...
Author: Ian Ingram, Laurence Marsh, Roger Flanagan ISBN: 0727727141 / 9780727727145 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
'This report provides a vision of construction in 2010. I do hope you will read this report and develop specific ideas which you feel are relevant to your organisation, and use them to build your ow...
Author: The Kindred Association ISBN: 0727719904 / 9780727719904 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
The 1990s have already seen the introduction of more environmental legislation than any other decade.
Furthermore, with EC Directives on such matters as hazardous waste, landfill, packaging and p...
Author: B. Menzies, N. Simons ISBN: 0727727516 / 9780727727510 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
Although there are now a large number of computer programmes for solving all sorts of foundation design problems, the need to check these outputs by 'hand-calculation' has become vitally important. ...
Author: Dr. B. Menzies, Dr. M. Matthews, Prof. N. Simons ISBN: 0727733508 / 9780727733504 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
This book explains the process of ground formation – what it is made of and how it behaves as an engineering material. This enables the civil engineer to work from a few first principles to de...
Author: B. Menzies, N. Simons ISBN: 0727729489 / 9780727729484 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
A short course in geotechnical site investigation is the third volume in the popular and authoritative 'Short course' series. This book focuses on the fundamental principles of geotechnical site inv...
Author: B. Menzies, C.W.W. Ng HKUST, N. Simons ISBN: 0727732633 / 9780727732637 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
The fourth in the highly respected Short Course Series, A Short Course in Soil-structure Engineering of Deep Foundations, Excavations and Tunnels, focuses on the three major geotechnical challenges ...
Author: Guy Cottam ISBN: 0727731475 / 9780727731470 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
This book is a simple, practical guide to the effects of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996, and the Scheme for Construction Contracts which is a Regulation produced under th...
Author: James McCuish, Roy Woodhead ISBN: 072773184X / 9780727731845 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
A company’s ability to quickly adapt to the changing demands and requirements of its customers has become an essential requirement for it’s long-term survival. Managers must not limit th...
Author: Jian Kang ISBN: 0727730134 / 9780727730138 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Acoustics is a major concern in many long spaces, such as road or railway tunnels, underground/railway stations, corridors, concourses and urban streets. The specific problems of such irregularly sh...
Author: John Timpson ISBN: 0727726722 / 9780727726728 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book will serve as a practical guide to construction adjudication for those involved with construction disputes. It will also serve as an essential reference for training adjudicators. It cover...
Author: Richard N. M. Anderson ISBN: 0727729977 / 9780727729972 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
As the use of contracts grows within the construction industry there will inevitable be a rise in the number of disputes. This book clears a path through the potential minefield of dispute managemen...
Author: F. G. Simon, T. Meggyes ISBN: 0727731211 / 9780727731210 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
In the second half of the twentieth century, increasing efforts were made towards containing and cleaning contaminated groundwater. A number of techniques can be used to achieve such goals, traditio...
Author: C. Craig ISBN: 0727725130 / 9780727725134 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
These proceedings of the international conference on advances in site investigation practice held in 1995 provide vital information for all professionals involved in the planning, execution, interpr...
Author: D. Green ISBN: 0727727885 / 9780727727886 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
Local government is facing the considerable challenge of meeting the Government's Best Value guidelines, of modernising practices and delivering quality services to local people. Advancing Best Valu...
Author: Glyn Jones ISBN: 0727725750 / 9780727725752 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This work has been specifically written to describe finite difference solutions to variations in beam on elastic foundation problems using micro-computers. The accompanying BEF (Beam on Elastic Foun...
Author: Prof. Nigel Smith ISBN: 0727731858 / 9780727731852 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Projects need to achieve strategic goals and to that end must work in different levels of uncertainty. Engineers must be aware of methods to operate in ambiguous situations. Project promoters, proje...
Author: David Bennett ISBN: 0727730886 / 9780727730886 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
David Bennett's latest book focuses on the fusion of innovative architecture and engineering on London Underground's Jubilee Line Extension.
The book highlights the complexity of the engineering ...
Author: R. E. Hester, R. M. Harrison ISBN: 0727729888 / 9780727729880 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Contaminated land and the methods and legal controls governing its reclamation, for subsequent development and use, are of great concern. Assessment and reclamation of contaminated land provides a c...
Author: R. W. Henn ISBN: 0727729837 / 9780727729835 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
These guidelines focus on the grouting performed to fill the voids between the excavated surface and the tunnel and shaft linings. This comprehensive new book will help those in the underground cons...
Author: , O. Kjekstad, R. Kastner ISBN: 0727731246 / 9780727731241 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Increasing development in the urban environment and supporting infrastructure systems has necessitated a greater use of underground space and sites that were hitherto judges to be not economically v...
Author: , Vic O`Brien ISBN: 0727732196 / 9780727732194 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This essential book provides a seven-step model for developing new supply chain relationships and how best to approach and manage sustainable partnerships. It identifies a number of benefits and dan...
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: 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: T. A. Newson ISBN: 0727732447 / 9780727732446 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Although foundation engineering is recognised as a mature discipline with geotechnics, the diversity of applications and studies evident in this book demonstrates that the field is still developing ...
