An Introduction to Shotcrete Materials by J. Paul Guyer

Structural Aspects of Building Conservation

This useful consultant to the evaluate and service of historical constructions is important for structural engineers, architects, surveyors and developers operating in all facets of creating conservation. Taking a realistic step by step procedure, the authors speak about the appraisal of constructions and the variations in structural behaviour among new and current constructions.

The Best Tree House Ever: How to Build a Backyard Tree House the Whole World Will Talk About

While his younger grandsons clamored for a hideout within the timber, what may perhaps Maurice Barkley, a sixty-something retiree, do yet seize a few wood beams and a degree? Now, greater than ten years, seven tiny homes, and a spiral staircase later, Barkley’s grandkids can actually say they've got the easiest tree condo ever.

Sustainability & Scarcity: A Handbook for Green Design and Construction in Developing Countries

Sustainability & shortage addresses a niche within the literature on eco-friendly construction famous by means of many within the fields of overseas improvement, structure, development, housing and sustainability. instead of being in line with the studies of extra economically-developed nations, this ebook describes the character of eco-friendly construction within the constructing international, elaborating the most matters that outline sustainability in these specific contexts.

The Climate Change Educational Partnership: Climate Change, Engineered Systems, and Society: A Report of Three Workshops

Societies advance engineered structures to handle or mediate climate-related difficulties, akin to drought, sea-level upward push or wildfire keep an eye on; the mediation consists of public belief, public engagement, and governance. In those efforts, societies additionally make a decision - deliberately or implicitly - questions of justice and sustainability, akin to what parts will obtain mediation measures, what varieties of measures could be used, and what degrees and types of neighborhood affects are tolerated.