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“rumiko handa”

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  • Presenting Difficult Pasts Through Architecture

    Converting National Socialist Sites to Documentation Centers

    by Rumiko Handa ...
    Architectural design can play a role in helping make the past present in meaningful ways when applied to preexisting buildings and places that carry notable and troubling pasts. In this comparative analysis, Rumiko Handa establishes the critical role architectural designs play in presenting difficult pasts by examining documentation centers on National Socialism in Germany.Presenting Difficult ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • Allure of the Incomplete, Imperfect, and Impermanent

    Designing and Appreciating Architecture as Nature

    by Rumiko Handa ...
    Architects have long operated based on the assumption that a building is 'complete' once construction has finished. Striving to create a perfect building, they wish for it to stay in its original state indefinitely, viewing any subsequent alterations as unintended effects or the results of degeneration. The ideal is for a piece of architecture to remain permanently perfect and complete. This ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

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    Creating Passive Houses for Better Living

    by Robin Brimblecombe, Kara Rosemeier ...
    Positive energy homes enable people to live healthy and comfortable lives with energy left over to share. Creating a house you love that produces surplus energy is surprisingly easy with a thorough understanding of how buildings work and careful attention to detail in construction. The Passive House standard, with its well-proven track record, forms the basis for creating positive energy homes. ... Read more

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  • The BIM Manager's Handbook

    Guidance for Professionals in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction

    by Dominik Holzer ...
    The BIM Manager's Handbook: Guidance for Professionals in Architecture, Engineering, and ConstructionBuilding Information Modelling (BIM) is a design and construction software that manages not just graphics, but also information—information that enables the automatic generation of drawings and reports, design analysis, schedule simulation, facilities management, and cost analysis—ultimately ... Read more

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  • The Eco-Home Design Guide

    Principles and practice for new-build and retrofit

    by Christopher Day ...
    Series series Sustainable Building
    The key principles of designing a pleasant, comfortable and healthy eco-home, with a foreword written by HRH The Prince of Wales, now King Charles III.Designing an eco-home is much more about working with your house's location and situation than relying on intrusive technology and hi-tech materials. With the soaring energy bills and the climate crisis, it is now more important than ever to invest ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Understanding Land Development

    A Project-Based Approach

    by Eddo Coiacetto ...
    This book draws on the author’s considerable expertise in land development processes and planning, and planning education. It takes a learning-by-doing studio approach and shows how to undertake a development feasibility study in three main stages: the preliminary proposal, a design and finally, a full report with a financially appraised proposal.Understanding Land Development shows how to tackle ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Life Cycle Assessment

    Principles, Practice and Prospects

    Edited by Ralph E Horne, Tim Grant, Karli Verghese ...
    Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) has developed in Australia over the last 20 years into a technique for systematically identifying the resource flows and environmental impacts associated with the provision of products and services. Interest in LCA has accelerated alongside growing demand to assess and reduce greenhouse gas emissions across different manufacturing and service sectors. Life Cycle ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 3

    Focus on Technology

    by Dominik Holzer ...
    ePart 3: Focus on Technology: How do you ensure your organisation gets the most out of the BIM technology available? Dedicated to the main technology-related aspects of a BIM Manager’s role, this ePart explains how to establish and manage an organisation’s BIM-related tool-ecology and how to use BIM in order to link from design to fabrication. What do BIM Managers need to do in order ensure their ... Read more

    $52.95 USD

  • The BIM Manager's Handbook, Part 4

    Building Up a BIM Support Infrastructure

    by Dominik Holzer ...
    ePart 4: Building up a BIM Support Infrastructure: Addressing the ‘back of house’ aspect of BIM Management, this ePart outlines how to go about developing a range of in-house BIM standards and guidelines. It highlights how BIM Managers go about establishing a training programme for staff and the setting up and management of an organisation’s BIM content library. It covers the support needed to ... Read more

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  • Wind Tunnel Testing of High-Rise Buildings

    by Peter Irwin, Roy Denoon, David Scott ...
    Since the 1960s, wind tunnel testing has become a commonly used tool in the design of tall buildings. It was pioneered, in large part, during the design of the World Trade Center Towers in New York. Since those early days of wind engineering, wind tunnel testing techniques have developed in sophistication, but these techniques are not widely understood by the designers using the results. As a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • CPM in Construction Management, Eighth Edition

    by James J. O'Brien, Fredric L. Plotnick ...
    The definitive guide for using CPM in construction planning and scheduling—now thoroughly updated to reflect new technologies and proceduresCritical path method (CPM) is the most widely taught and used framework for construction project design, scheduling, and management. This new edition has been fully revised to cover the latest techniques, standards, and software tools. The book begins by ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Modern Residential Construction Practices

    by David A. Madsen, David P. Madsen ...
    Modern Residential Construction Practices provides easy-to-read, comprehensive and highly illustrated coverage of residential building construction practices that conform to industry standards in the United States and Canada.Each chapter provides complete descriptions, real-world practices, realistic examples, three-dimensional (3D) illustrations, and related tests and problems. Chapters cover ... Read more

    $200.00 USD