Author: Michael Phiri ISBN: 0727726730 / 9780727726735 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book aims to inform architects, engineers and their clients about new and existing developments in computing which will affect them now and in the future. It looks at the way IT affects busines...
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: J. Jakeways, R.G. McInnes ISBN: 0727731327 / 9780727731326 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
During 2000/2001 exceptionally high winter rainfall resulted in major ground instability problems on the Isle of Wight, and coincided with the completion of important research on the predicted impac...
Author: J. Turek, R. Katzenbach ISBN: 0727731262 / 9780727731265 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This report has been prepared in the framework of the Co-operation in Science and Technology (COST) Action C7 for Soil-Structure Interaction in the Urban Civil Engineering. Based on a survey in 13 E...
Author: A. R. Clark, E. M. Lee ISBN: 0727729853 / 9780727729859 Year: 2002 Availability: Out of Stock
Cliff recession and coastal landsliding of soft rock cliffs present significant threats to land use and development.
Investigation and management of soft rock cliffs presents state-of-the-art gui...
Author: , A H Brookes, G West ISBN: 072772925X / 9780727729255 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
The use of lime-stabilised soil columns and lime piles as suitable treatments for improving slope stability on the clay earthworks of motorways is under consideration by the DETR and the Highways Ag...
Author: D.K.C. Jones, E.M. Lee ISBN: 0727758012 / 9780727758019 Year: 2014 Availability: Out of Stock
Landslide Risk Assessment provides guidance to practitioners on establishing the likelihood and extent to which future slope failures could adversely impact society and affect people and property.
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Author: Eddie Bromhead, Maia-Laura Ibsen, Neil Dixon ISBN: 0727728725 / 9780727728722 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
This valuable three volume set of publications contains vital information from throughout the world on landslide and slope instability problems.
Every four years the worlds leading scientists and...
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: Civil Engineering Special Issue ISBN: 0727726218 / 9780727726216 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
This £2 billion project ranks among the largest civil engineering projects in the world. This special issue describes the critical first phase (IA) which will supply 18 m /s of water to the industri...
Author: , C. D. F. Rogers, S. Glendinning ISBN: 0727725637 / 9780727725639 Year: 1996 Availability: Out of Stock
This book has been compiled to meet the increased need for knowledge on alternative ground improvement techniques using lime. It brings together expertise and experience from industry and academia t...
Author: David Johnson ISBN: 0727732765 / 9780727732767 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Linear Analysis of Skeletal Structures meets the demands of a typical prominent structural engineering educator who aims to: "teach students how to model, how to use computer packages in real contex...
Author: Henry Hewlett ISBN: 0727732684 / 9780727732682 Year: 2004 Availability: Out of Stock
Long-term Benefits and Performance of Dams presents proceedings the 13th Conference of the British Dam Society held at the University of Kent, June 2004.
The papers include discussion on the bene...
Author: M. Struve, P. Spillmann, T. Dorrie ISBN: 0727735136 / 9780727735133 Year: 2009 Availability: Out of Stock
The co-disposal of domestic waste with industrial waste can represent a serious hazard to prime sources of drinking water throughout the world. Containing the latest research on the risks to groundw...
Author: Highways Agency ISBN: 0727733478 / 9780727733474 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
Bridge management has become a topic of increasing importance over the last decade. Bridges are increasingly in need of repair due to the increased traffic loads to which they are subjected: both i...
Author: Denise Bower ISBN: 0727732218 / 9780727732217 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This invaluable book covers all aspects of procurement, from drafting and using contracts to procurement strategies for privately financed projects. It is written from a construction perspective, an...
Author: F Barker ISBN: 0727726676 / 9780727726674 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
The catalyst for the conference which gave rise to these proceedings was the decision of the former UK Government to block further investigation by the nuclear waste agency, UK Nirex Ltd, for a nati...
Author: Andrew Pepper ISBN: 0727740997 / 9780727740991 Year: 2010 Availability: Out of Stock
This book contains the proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the British Dam Society, Managing dams: Challenges in a time of change, covering a wide range of topics of direct relevance to a...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727729675 / 9780727729675 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
"Failing to assess properly can, and sadly still does, cost the construction industry millions of pounds. Much of that could be saved by intelligent use of foresight before the forced excavator even...
Author: Martyn Jones, Mohammed Saad ISBN: 0727730029 / 9780727730022 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This book investigates best practice across sectors of the economy and their transfers into the context of construction. It examines the development and diffusion of innovation to address adversaria...
Author: D A Langford, V R Rowland ISBN: 0727720295 / 9780727720290 Year: 1995 Availability: Out of Stock
Increasingly, more and more clients are seeking to procure construction work on a global basis; designers from one country, contractors from another, materials and subcontractors from yet others. In...
Author: Hamilton ISBN: 0727734970 / 9780727734976 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
Managing Projects for success is a 'how to do it' book of considerable value to practitioners and students alike. It provides the challenge of theory application through a series of exercises and is...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727725696 / 9780727725691 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
Gone are the days when construction companies could rely on repeat business and word of mouth to maintain a healthy business, especially in the aftermath of arguably the worst ever recession in the ...
Author: A Lewis, J Hughes, L Chinn ISBN: 0727728091 / 9780727728098 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This report describes a study which examined measures provided for the mitigation of adverse ecological effects of road construction on designated sites and protected species, and determined the ext...
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...
