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Sustainable Architectural Design
An Overview
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
This book is a guide to a sustainable design process that moves from theory, to site and energy use, to building systems, and finally to evaluation and case studies, so you can integrate design and technology for effective sustainable building. Kuppaswamy Iyengar shows you how to get it right the...
by RSMeans
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
This concise student edition of the most widely used dictionary for construction and design professionals offers clear explanations of essential construction-related terms and concepts. Illustrated throughout with explanatory drawings and photographs, it is an indispensable reference for beginning...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2013
This book offers an alternative vision for the future of architecture, a timely and invaluable contribution to the debate concerning emergent surfaces and the next generation of building membranes in this era of extreme computational control.
Areas covered include:
the future relationship...
Digital Design
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Digital Design: A Critical Introduction provides a much-needed new perspective on designing with digital media. Linking ideas from media theory, generative design and creativity with examples from nature, art, architecture, industrial design, websites, animation and games, it addresses some fundamental...
Mechanical Engineers' Handbook, Volume 2
Design, Instrumentation, and Controls
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Full coverage of electronics, MEMS, and instrumentation and control in mechanical engineering
This second volume of Mechanical Engineers' Handbook covers electronics, MEMS, and instrumentation and control, giving you accessible and in-depth access to the topics you'll encounter in the discipline:...
by Piet M. Lugt
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2012
The definitive book on the science of grease lubrication for roller and needle bearings in industrial and vehicle engineering.
Grease Lubrication in Rolling Bearings provides an overview of the existing knowledge on the various aspects of grease lubrication (including lubrication systems) and...
Advances in Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design
Proceedings of the AHFE 2018 International Conference on Interdisciplinary Practice in Industrial Design, July 21-25, 2018, Loews Sapphire Falls Resort at Universal Studios, Orlando, Florida, USA
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2018
This book provides readers with a snapshot of cutting-edge methods and procedures in industrial design, with a particular focus on human-centered and user-experience design, service design, sustainable design and applications of virtual & augmented reality. Reporting on both theoretical and practical...
BIM Design
Realising the Creative Potential of Building Information Modelling
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Building information modelling (BIM) is revolutionising building design and construction. For architects, BIM has the potential to optimise their creativity while reducing risk in the design and construction process, thus giving them a more significant role in the building process. This book demonstrates...
Applying the Building Code
Step-by-Step Guidance for Design and Building Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2016
No other resource—not even the building code—presents the exact code information you need, when you need it at design stage
The International Building Code (IBC) is a model building code developed by the International Code Council (ICC). The IBC and its complementary codes provide design...
by Patricia Gamburgo
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2013
New Second Edition! This e-book contains all the necessary elements to learn and master the Punch! Software (R) programs, covering Version 17.7 (Windows) and 17.5.7 (Mac)
The information can be used and accessed in different ways.
- Following the entire e-book provides a complete training to learn...
by Patricia Gamburgo
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
New Second Edition! This is the fourth e-book of the Learning Punch Software (R) series, and as the title states, covers the current Power Tools included with the different titles of the program up to version 17.7, for Windows and 17.5.7. for Mac.
As with the previous releases, you can read the entire...
by Patricia Gamburgo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
About this book: this e-book contains all the necessary elements to learn and master the TurboFloorPlan® programs (See *** Notes*** below).
The information can be used and accessed in different ways.
- Following the entire e-book provides a complete training to learn the TurboFloorPlan®...
by Patricia Gamburgo
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2019
For the first time, an entire eBook exclusively for Mac users! 260 pages and more than 800 images dedicated to the latest Punch V19 for Mac version.
- NEW:A new feature in Pat's eBooks: the Screen Guides. Browse through images of the most important screens of your program, then click on...
Tall Buildings
The Proceedings of a Symposium on Tall Buildings with Particular Reference to Shear Wall Structures, Held in the Department of Civil Engineering, University of Southampton, April 1966
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2014
Tall Buildings provides information and research on tall buildings. This book presents the advances in structural analysis, in methods of design, in methods of construction, and in the properties of materials.
Organized into three sections encompassing 27 chapters, this book begins with an...