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Stress Ribbon and Cable-Supported Pedestrian Bridges, 2nd edition
Author(s): Jiri Strasky
Publication date: 08 June 2011
ISBN: 9780727741462
£123.50
Stress Ribbon and Cable-supported Pedestrian Bridges provides a definitive practical guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required by the practising engineer. 'Stress ribbon bridges' is the term used to describe structures formed by a very slender concrete deck in the shape of a catenary. They can be designed with one or more spans and
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The Civil Engineers: The Story of the Institution of Civil Engineers and the people who made it
Author(s): Hugh Ferguson and Mike Chrimes
Publication date: 01 June 2011
ISBN: 9780727741431
£57.50
The first history of the Institution of Civil Engineers to be illustrated in colour looks at the development of the profession over nearly 200 years and includes biographies of some of the greatest engineers who made these changes possible, charting the successes of construction from the great engineering advances of Victorian times to the Channel
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People and Organizational Management in Construction, 2nd edition
Author(s): Shamil Naoum
Publication date: 24 May 2011
ISBN: 9780727741516
£44.50
People and Organizational Management in Construction, Second edition, applies management concepts to the construction industry, addressing the ways construction organizations can seek to improve their performance and effectiveness by understanding human and organizational behaviour. Using case studies and examples from the construction industry, th
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Structural Fire Engineering
Author(s): Tom Lennon
Publication date: 19 May 2011
ISBN: 9780727741417
£100.00
Structural Fire Engineering provides comprehensive and practical design guidance on the application of structural fire engineering to specialist structural engineers. The chapters provide an insight into the explanation of the structural fire engineering design process, its position within the regulatory system and guidance on the selection of appr
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Delivering London 2012: Planning and People - a Civil Engineering Special Issue
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 May 2011
ISBN: 9780727757159
£11.00
Winning and delivering the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games is set to become one of the UK's most compelling stories of the early twenty-first century. In just 7 years a talented team of civil engineers and other professionals will have transformed one of the most derelict and neglected sites in Europe into a spectacular theatre for the wor
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ICE Manual of Highway Design and Management
Author(s): Edited by Ian Walsh
Publication date: 20 April 2011
ISBN: 9780727741110
£247.50
The ICE manual of highway design and management is a one-stop reference for all practicing engineers working in the field of highway engineering. Written and edited by a wide selection of leading specialists, this manual covers each of the key aspects of highway engineering projects - from funding, procurement and transport planning to traffic engi
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Portland Cement, 3rd edition
Author(s): Lesley Struble, Paul Livesey, Peter Del Strother and G Bye
Publication date: 15 April 2011
ISBN: 9780727736116
£100.00
The third edition of this popular book provides a concise overview of the properties and manufacturing processes of Portland Cement, which students of material sciences and graduates looking to enter the cement or concrete industries will find invaluable. While Portland Cement is one of the most traditional of construction materials, rising costs o
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Water Distribution Systems
Author(s): Edited by Dragan Savic and John Banyard
Publication date: 12 January 2011
ISBN: 9780727741127
£116.25
This book is a basic introduction to water distribution systems, including definition of its common elements, modelling theory, basic planning, operational and management issues, as well as some advanced topics including leakage management, optimal design, asset planning and management, etc.
Each chapter is written from both the academic and ind
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Cost-benefit Analysis: a practical guide, 2nd edition
Author(s): Michael Snell
Publication date: 17 December 2010
ISBN: 9780727741349
£44.50
Cost-benefit analysis: A practical guide is a complete guide to the principles and practice of using cost-benefit analysis (CBA) effectively for making better decisions and allocating resources.
This comprehensive and accessible text can be used without prior knowledge of economics, and provides the necessary skills to understand the rationale o
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ICE Manual of Construction Law
Author(s): Edited by V. Ramsey, A. Minogue, J. Baster and M. O'Reilly
Publication date: 08 December 2010
ISBN: 9780727740878
£213.75
Part of the ICE manuals series, ICE manual of construction law is the essential legal reference for all construction professionals. Previously published as the annual ICE construction law handbook, ICE manual of construction law has been thoroughly revised and extended, to deliver practical guidance and a breadth of knowledge that is unrivalled by
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Tall Buildings: The New Space Race - a Civil Engineering Special Issue
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 November 2010
ISBN: 9780727741356
£14.05
Despite the recent global construction downturn, tall buildings are still erected in city centres because they provide economical, prestigious, comfortable, safe and sustainable solutions to urbanisation and urban regeneration. Increasingly clients' demands for taller buildings with enhanced performance requirements can only be met by engineering i
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Planning Major Projects
Author(s): Roger J. Allport
Publication date: 27 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741103
£81.00
Planning Major Projects is a new, practical guide to developing resilient infrastructure and offers insight and guidance for planners seeking to deliver major projects on time, within budget and in line with operational goals. Planning Major Projects advocates a new approach for planning based on the author's international experience of working on
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volume 2: Spatial structural systems, foundations and dynamics
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741073
£88.25
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved. Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and des
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volumes 1 & 2 (2 BOOK SET)
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741332
£128.50
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved.
Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and
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Structural systems: behaviour and design Volume 1: Plane structural systems
Author(s): Leonidas Stavridis
Publication date: 08 October 2010
ISBN: 9780727741066
£76.25
Promoting and underlining the importance of structural thinking, Structural Systems: Behaviour and Design will provide readers with a comprehensive understanding of the behaviour of a wide range of structural systems based on the load-carrying mechanisms involved. Bringing together a wide array of structural types and covering the behaviour and des
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ICE Manual of Construction Materials: Polymers and Polymer Fibre Composites
Author(s): L.C. Hollaway
Publication date: 21 July 2010
ISBN: 9780727741202
£46.50
This book is a specially published section of the larger work ICE manual of construction materials. Polymers and Polymer Fibre Composites are sections 6 and 7 of the two volume work. ICE manual of construction materials is an invaluable resource for practising civil and structural engineers in consulting firms, government agencies, research institu
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Structural Analysis with Finite Elements
Author(s): Paolo Rugarli
Publication date: 11 June 2010
ISBN: 9780727740939
£81.00
Structural Analysis with Finite Elements reveals the theory behind the finite element (FE) method as it relates to structural engineering and explains how to overcome commonly encountered problems and errors found in everyday structural modelling with finite element software. Drawing on nearly 20 years of experience as a structural engineer and FE
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Waterborne Transport - a Civil Engineering special issue
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 May 2010
ISBN: 9780727741042
£22.00
Waterborne transport remains fundamental to the global economy. While the proportion of freight carried by inland waterways is relatively modest - with 6% in Europe, 9% in the USA and 11% in China - the unrivalled efficiency of sea transport means that 90% of all world trade is moved on water. In Britain, 20% of domestic freight and 95% of internat
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Designers' Guide to Eurocode 1: Actions on bridges
Author(s): J-A Calgaro, M Tschumi, and H Gulvanessian
Publication date: 15 March 2010
ISBN: 9780727731586
£119.00
This series of Designers Guides to the Eurocodes provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides
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Specification for Tunnelling, 3rd edition
Author(s): The British Tunnelling Society
Publication date: 12 March 2010
ISBN: 9780727734778
£88.25
The BTS Specification for Tunnelling has become the standard industry document for tunnelling contracts, and forms the basis of tunnelling specifications for projects throughout the world. The specification has been revised in this third edition to reflect current industry best practice and to take account of the many advances in the field of tunne
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