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  • Masterworks of Technology

    The Story of Creative Engineering, Architecture, and Design

    by E. E. Lewis ...
    In this absorbing exploration of technological creativity throughout the ages, E. E. Lewis, professor of mechanical engineering at Northwestern University, eloquently tells the story of how science and engineering-which had little in common until a few hundred years ago-came together to create the technological world of the 21st century. In vivid historical vignettes, the author skillfully ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • How Safe is Safe Enough?

    Technological Risks, Real and Perceived

    by E. E. Lewis ...
    Every time an airplane crashes, a gas line explodes, a bridge collapses, or a contaminant escapes the public questions whether the benefits that technology brings are worth its risks. Written in laymen’s language, How Safe Is Safe Enough? explores the realities of the risks that technology presents and the public’s perceptions of them. E. E. Lewis examines how these perceptions are reconciled with ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

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    Una guía práctica para la construcción en el Ecuador

    by Paolo Modenese ...
    ¿Cuánto cobra un arquitecto o un ingeniero civil por sus servicios? ¿Cuál es el precio promedio de una edificación en obra gris? ¿Qué permisos se necesitan para construir en Ecuador? ¿Qué es una mocheta?   Estas y más preguntas encontrarán su respuesta dentro de este manual técnico de construcción. Escrito de una manera sencilla y accesible a todo p&uacute... ... Read more

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  • The Construction Project Manager

    by Accattoli Michele ...
    The Construction Project Manual is the result of many years experience in the field by the author, Michael Accattoli.Born with the aim of illustrating the work of the surveyor and construction management of the construction site to those who come for the first time to the profession of surveyor, this ebook shows how to get prepared for the test field is rarely something you can learn at school ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mediation in the Construction Industry

    An International Review

    Edited by Penny Brooker, Suzanne Wilkinson ...
    Series series CIB
    The application of construction dispute procedures has changed dramatically in the last decade. This has resulted in an increased use of Alternative Dispute Resolution in many countries, and mediation in particular. Construction is one of the major industries using mediation, in the UK and in many other countries such as the US, China, Australia and New Zealand. This expansion in mediation has ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Quality Control, Robust Design, and the Taguchi Method

    by Khosrow Dehnad ...
    In 1980, I received a grant from Aoyama-gakuin university to come to the United States to assist American Industry improve the quality of their products. In a small way this was to repay the help the US had given Japan after the war. In the summer of 1980, I visited the AT&T Bell Laboratories Quality Assurance Center, the organization that founded modern quality control. The result of my first ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Quality Management in Construction Projects

    by Abdul Razzak Rumane ...
    Series series Systems Innovation Book Series
    The first edition published in 2010. The response was encouraging and many people appreciated a book that was dedicated to quality management in construction projects. Since it published, ISO 9000: 2008 has been revised and ISO 9000: 2015 has published. The new edition will focus on risk-based thinking which must be considered from the beginning and throughout the project life cycle. There are ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Building Lean, Building BIM

    Improving Construction the Tidhar Way

    by Rafael Sacks, Samuel Korb, Ronen Barak ...
    Building Lean, Building BIM is the essential guide for any construction company that wants to implement Lean Construction and Building Information Modelling (BIM) to gain a strategic edge over their competition.The first of its kind, the book outlines the principles of Lean, the functionality of BIM, and the interactions between the two, illustrating them through the story of how Tidhar ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Procedures for Licensing Authority Officers

    by Tim Deveaux ...
    Licensing law is a wide ranging , detailed and complex body of law within the UK. This book comes at a time when local authorities are required to consider and approve, or reject, applications for an increasing number and very wide range of licences. The book provides easy to read, and easy to follow procedures for a wide range of licences which local authorities and other public bodies are ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • HVAC Control Systems

    Modelling, Analysis and Design

    by Chris P. Underwood ...
    This important new book bridges the gap between works on classical control and process control, and those dealing with HVAC control at a more elementary level, which generally adopt a qualitative and descriptive control. Both advanced level students and specialist practitioners will welcome the in-depth analytical treatment of the subject presented in this volume. Of particular significance are ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Towards a Territorial Multi-Disaster Buildings’ Resistance Certification

    by Daniele Fabrizio Bignami ...
    Series series Energy (R0)
    Disaster risk is increasing, not only in number of events, but also in incurred losses. Such increases are being driven also by the growing exposure of assets, due to the rapid urban growth, because vulnerability decreases as countries develop, but not enough to compensate. The situation will be more and more critical, due to the growth of the amount of the building stock. Thus we need new ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Fire Science and Technology 2015

    The Proceedings of 10th Asia-Oceania Symposium on Fire Science and Technology

    Edited by Kazunori Harada, Ken Matsuyama, Keisuke Himoto, Yuji Nakamura, Kaoru Wakatsuki ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book focuses on topics in the entire spectrum of fire safety science, targeting research in fires, explosions, combustion science, heat transfer, fluid dynamics, risk analysis, structural engineering, and other subjects. The book contributes to a gain in advanced scientific knowledge and presents or advances new ideas in all topics in fire safety science.Two decades ago, the 1st Asia-Oceania ... Read more

    $287.99 USD