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The purpose of this book is to help employers and their advisers (especially their Quantity Surveyors) in drawing up all the contracts required on a normal UK building project.

This book contains a vintage article on Texan bee-keeping by Udo Topperwein, who once a prominent member of the Texas Bee Keepers Association. With chapters on history, geography, economics, apiary management, and much more, "Bee keeping" will be of special interest to modern American bee-keepers...

Après la question de l’éclairage, nous plaçons assez naturellement celle du chauffage. Si nous voulions embrasser cette question dans son entier, il nous faudrait des volumes pour son développement. Hâtons-nous, en conséquence, de dire que le seul objet de cette Notice — et il est déjà...

La respiration d’un air pur est aussi nécessaire à l’entretien de la vie que l’alimentation même. Les maladies les plus graves que la médecine ait à combattre, proviennent de l’inspiration d’une atmosphère viciée. Les professions sédentaires, s’exerçant dans des locaux étroits,...

Dans la Notice des Merveilles de la science sur l’Art du chauffage[1] nous avons étudié le chauffage : 1° Par les cheminées ; 2° Par les calorifères ; 3° Par les poêles ; 4° Par le gaz. Nous avons à faire connaître,...

The Routledge REITs Research Handbook presents a cutting-edge examination of the research into this key global investment vehicle. Edited by internationally respected academic and REIT expert Professor David Parker, the book will set the research agenda for years to come. The handbook is divided...

Un manuale per gli ingegneri che desiderano applicarsi alle consulenze giudiziali, una guida agli adempimenti che vanno dall’iscrizione all’Albo dei consulenti tecnici, allo svolgimento degli incarichi nel rispetto della procedura, fino alla redazione della parcella. Al professionista vengono...

This book provides the readers with a timely guide to the application of biomimetic principles in architecture and engineering design. As a result of a combined effort by two internationally recognized authorities, the biologist Werner Nachtigall and the architect Göran Pohl, the book describes the...

The second edition of Environmental Health and Housing has been completely updated to cover the contemporary issues in public health that have emerged in recent years. With a theory and practice approach to public health, this edition focuses more on population health, health protection and improvement,...

The book contains the papers developed from the presentations at the Distributed Intelligence in Design Symposium, held in Salford in May 2009. In this context, Distributed Intelligence refers to the interdisciplinary knowledge of a range of different individuals in different organisations, with different...

This book does an exceptional job in giving an understanding of change, complexity, uncertainty and conflict as well as their linkages, including awareness of strategies, methods and techniques to handle them relative to resource and environmental management. The text enhances the reader's capacity to conduct practice and conduct research in resource and environmental management.

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is a global phenomenon which is gaining significant momentum across the world. Currently there is little information on how to realise and monitor benefits from implementing BIM across the life-cycle of a built environment asset. This book provides a practical...

This book presents a series of significant methods and examples for the design of sustainable intelligent facades in a variety of contexts. Emphasis is placed on how intelligence has been applied for successful energy-saving efforts in the planning of building envelopes. Readers will find essential...

The Whole Building Handbook is a compendium of all the issues and strategies that architects need to understand to design and construct sustainable buildings for a sustainable society. The authors move beyond the current definition of sustainability in architecture, which tends to focus on energy-efficiency,...