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: John Bennett, Sarah Jayes ISBN: 0704905035 / 9780704905030 Year: 1995 Availability: Out of Stock
This report discusses the benefits and costs of partnering and deals with the specifics of the two main types of partnering - project partnering and strategic partnering. It provides practical advic...
Author: British Tunnelling Society, ICE ISBN: 0727729861 / 9780727729866 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
This guide is an essential reference to the recommended standards and rules applicable to formulation for all manner of bored tunnels, and shafts in any type of ground condition. It is also a useful...
Author: T. M. Hutchin ISBN: 0727730169 / 9780727730169 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Every organisation faces constraints which may seem insurmountable. The Theory of Constraints argues that the number of constraints is limited and can be identified through the application of a robu...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727727869 / 9780727727862 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
These conference proceedings address the wide range of geotechnical issues associated with urban development.
Part one of the book is devoted to the use of tunnelling to provide infrastructure in...
Author: Colin Gray ISBN: 0704912007 / 9780704912007 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This report argues that the construction industry needs to develop the management and production capability to deliver more differentiated buildings at less cost. It examines the 'value chains' with...
Author: Nigel A Standing ISBN: 0727730304 / 9780727730305 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management incentive programmes and clauses are a powerful mechanism for allowing continuity of contractors’ input throughout a project delivery. The fact that incentive programmes have ...
Author: Ladislav Fryba ISBN: 072773539X / 9780727735393 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book analyses the effects of moving loads on elastic and inelastic solids, elements and parts of structures and on elastic media, namely beams, continuous beams, beams on elastic foundations, r...
Author: Tim Swann ISBN: 0727725653 / 9780727725653 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
The success of the six international conferences on Water Chemistry of Nuclear Reactor Systems, held in Bournemouth since 1977, has shown the worldwide interest in obtaining a scientific understandi...
Author: Jonathan Simm, Neal Masters ISBN: 0727732323 / 9780727732323 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Whole life costing is not a new concept. However, thinking about costs has traditionally been segregated into 'boxes' of capital, maintenance, operational and disruption costs, a split often emphasi...
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...
