Author: David Blockley ISBN: 0727735691 / 9780727735690 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
This issue has eight invited papers covering topics from the vulnerability of sensitive and historic structures in seismic zones to the risk issues behind the Eurocodes.
The purpose of this speci...
Author: K A Paine, R K Dhir, T D Dyer ISBN: 072772861X / 9780727728616 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
Opportunities for developing sustainable utilisation are becoming increasingly advantageous, and the recovery of maximum value waste materials is a key concern in this process. One of the most effec...
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: BP ISBN: 0727732781 / 9780727732781 Year: 2005 Availability: Out of Stock
To access global oil and gas deposits, major pipelines must traverse remote regions with extreme terrains. There are a significant number of pipeline projects, active or planned, in tropical jungles...
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: 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: James Armstrong, Ross Dixon, Simon Robinson ISBN: 072772598X / 9780727725981 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
This book examines the problems involved in making engineering decisions that affect the quality of life of large numbers of people worldwide and presents the individual, family, community and globa...
Author: M G Winter ISBN: 0727729233 / 9780727729231 Year: 1999 Availability: Out of Stock
The crushing of general fill particles during compaction, sometimes seem as a problem, often produces a more stable compacted mass. This report considers the use of materials susceptible to crushing...
Author: CIRIA ISBN: 0727720007 / 9780727720009 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
This handbook contains information and practical guidance on the environmental issues likely to be encountered at each stage in the design adn specification of a building or civil engineering projec...
Author: CIRIA ISBN: 0727720015 / 9780727720016 Year: 1994 Availability: Out of Stock
This handbook contains information and practical guidance on the environmental issues likely to be encountered at each stage in the tendering and construction phases of a builidng or civil engineeri...
Author: Honorary Editor, John Atkinson ISBN: 0727735365 / 9780727735362 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
This book marks the 60th anniversary of ICE's world leading journal, Géotechnique. It includes a set of seminal papers published in Géotechnique over the past 60 years as well as all the papers from...
Author: David Crosthwaite, Ranko Bon ISBN: 0727727494 / 9780727727497 Year: 2000 Availability: Out of Stock
What is the relationship between construction activity and economic development? Are they positively or negatively related, or is the relationship more complex? Does the role of construction change ...
Author: D R Carder, P Darley ISBN: 0727729306 / 9780727729309 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Much of the urban development in the UK is founded on heavily overconsolidated sedimentary clays, which are particularly susceptible to swelling and softening following the reduction in stress cause...
Author: Peter Morris ISBN: 0727725939 / 9780727725936 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
'This book will undoubtedly become one of the classics of the project management literature...There will be a growing need for project managers who can look beyond the internal processes of their pr...
Author: Jim Smith ISBN: 0727726145 / 9780727726148 Year: 1997 Availability: Out of Stock
There are few tasks in surveying that carry more onerous responsibilities than setting out. The financial cost of mistakes can be horrendous and completely out of proportion to the perceived value o...
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: T S Ingold ISBN: 072772083X / 9780727720832 Year: 1995 Availability: Out of Stock
This book provides details of the materials, design considerations, applications and construction techniques currently employed in Europe. Topics covered include the development and use of polymetri...
Author: Lindon K. A. Sear ISBN: 0727730150 / 9780727730152 Year: 2001 Availability: Out of Stock
This book draws together a large quantity of research that has been carried out on pulverised fuel ash (PFA) over the past 30 years. Fuel ash and fly ash are produced as waste from burining coal (or...
Author: David Whiteoak, John Read ISBN: 072773220X / 9780727732200 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
This comprehensive Handbook covers every aspect of bitumen, from its manufacture, storage and handling to specifications and quality along with a whole chapter on bitumen emulsions. The mechanical t...
Author: ICE ISBN: 0727735519 / 9780727735515 Year: 2008 Availability: Out of Stock
The Short Course Series concentrates on how to get the fundamentals of a given subject right, and then how to use them in practical applications. It provides civil engineers, engineering geologists ...
Author: Graeme Bowles, John Kelly, Marcus Grongvist, Scott Fernie, Steven Male ISBN: 0727727303 / 9780727727305 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management (VM) is a structured, team-oriented approach to problem solving that can be applied to the concept, design, construction and on-going management phases of a project. The primary rea...
Author: , Graeme Bowles, Marcus Grongvist, Scott Fernie, Steven Male ISBN: 072772729X / 9780727727299 Year: 1998 Availability: Out of Stock
Value management (VM) is a structured, team-oriented approach to problem solving that can be applied to the concept, design, construction and on-going management phases of a project. The primary rea...
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: R Clare ISBN: 072771905X / 9780727719058 Year: 1992 Availability: Out of Stock
This volume covers works and studies on tidal power currently being undertaken, both nationally and internationally.Papers included cover the proposed Mersey barrage.The Department of Energy's conti...
Author: E Faragher, I Jefferson, M W Frost, P R Fleming, T E J Roff ISBN: 0727732498 / 9780727732491 Year: 2003 Availability: Out of Stock
Of all the aspects of civil engineering that involve geotechnical engineers, arguably the largest is that associated with transport infrastructure. The geotechnical engineering associated with infr...
