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  • Country Cottage Conservation

    A Guide to Maintenance and Repair

    by Bevis Claxton ...
    Country Cottage Conservation is essential reading for everyone who loves rural cottages. From simple DIY redecoration to employing architects and builders to tackle significant repairs, this book is full of helpful information. The author explains how cottage owners are able to protect and enhance their investment, and discusses various repair and redecoration options and their consequences. The ... Read more

    $17.69 USD

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  • Classic Hewn-Log House

    A Step-by-Step Guide to Building and Restoring

    by Charles McRaven ...
    A classic of early American architecture, the hewn-log house has a unique rustic charm and character. In this engaging and informative guide, Charles McRaven provides illustrated step-by-step instructions that cover every aspect of building your own log house, from selecting the site and hewing the first log to laying the final chimney stone. Whether you're building a new house or restoring an old ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Building a Garage

    A Complete Guide

    by Laurie Williamson ...
    Building a Garage is a practical, step-by-step guide which covers all aspects of the build from the planning and design stage through to construction and completion. Whether you would like to build a garage yourself or employ a builder, whether you want to construct a double or a single garage, whether you wish to build with bricks or wood, and whether you require a garage just to house your car ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Complete Guide to Alternative Home Building Materials & Methods

    Including Sod, Compressed Earth, Plaster, Straw, Beer Cans, Bottles, Cordwood, and Many Other Low Cost Materials

    by Jon Nunan ...
    In the United States alone, the annual construction of over one million new homes causes a very substantial drain on natural resources. Today, approximately 60 percent of the timber cut down in our country is used for building homes. This book shows you how to identify, locate, and effectively use alternative building materials. You will learn about straw bale, cordwood, cob, adobe, rammed earth, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Total Quality in the Construction Supply Chain

    by John S Oakland, Marton Marosszeky ...
    Organizations in the construction industry struggle with three key issues: quality management or better meeting customer expectations, supply chain management or more effectively working with suppliers to provide a seamless service to customers, and knowledge management, the challenge of learning between collaborating organisations and between people working on similar projects around the world. ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Build Your Own Brick House

    by Gerald Cole ...
    Build Your Own Brick House follows the process of a self-build, using traditional brick and block techniques, enabling the self-builder to understand both the individual stages and the nature of the build as a whole. It takes a practical approach, focusing on the best use of time, abilities and budget, and on communicating more clearly and effectively with designers and tradespeople in order to ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Procurement Systems

    A Guide to Best Practice in Construction

    Edited by Steve Rowlinson, Peter McDermott ...
    Procurement Systems details the whole spectrum of procurement issues in the construction industry, starting with the client /customer and running through managerial, cultural and IT-based issues. The book commences with an overveiw of previous work and a section on selection criteria is provided to enable practitioners to make their choices of procurement form. Importantly, perfromance comparisons ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Fire Engineering and Emergency Planning

    Research and applications

    by R. Barham ...
    Protection against fire and prevention of explosion is vital in a modern industrial economy. This published proceedings of the First European Conference on Fire Engineering and Emergency Planning provides an authoritative base of materials covering the latest research, applications and hypotheses as a cumulative reference work and a platform for exchanges of ideas within the academic fire ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Energy Management in Buildings

    by Keith Moss ...
    Managing the consumption and conservation of energy in buildings is the concern of both building managers and occupants and this use accounts for about half of UK energy consumption. The need to manage this has been given new emphasis by the introduction of the Climate Change Levy.Energy Management in Buildings introduces students and energy managers to the principles of managing and conserving ... Read more

    $89.99 USD