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High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 2
Author(s): High Speed Two
Publication date: 11 October 2021
ISBN: 9780727765789
£78.00
The main construction of HS2, Britain's high-speed rail network, began in September 2020 when Main Works Civils Contractors moved from enabling works, scheme design and preparatory work to full construction of the railway. The low-carbon network will link London and the West Midlands and extend services to the North and Scotland, serving more than
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High Speed Two (HS2): Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 1
Author(s): High Speed Two
Publication date: 11 October 2021
ISBN: 9780727765765
£83.25
The main construction of HS2, Britain's high-speed rail network, began in September 2020 when Main Works Civils Contractors moved from enabling works, scheme design and preparatory work to full construction of the railway. The low-carbon network will link London and the West Midlands and extend services to the North and Scotland, serving more than
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Piling 2020: Proceedings of the Piling 2020 Conference
Author(s): BGA (British Geotechnical Association)
Publication date: 10 March 2021
ISBN: 9780727765048
£125.00
Piling 2020 contains the proceedings of the Piling 2020 conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA) and supported by the Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS). It brings together the knowledge and experience of industry and academia through detailed research and case histories that provide a definitive and up to date perspe
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Coastal Management 2019: Joining forces to shape our future coasts
Author(s): Edited by Nick Hardiman and The Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 17 January 2020
ISBN: 9780727765147
£266.50
The Institution of Civil Engineers’ Coastal Management conference series is the leading forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal engineering. The 9th conference took place in La Rochelle, France, from 24−26 September 2019.
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International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019 (ICSIC): Driving data-informed decision-making
Author(s): MJ DeJong
Publication date: 24 July 2019
ISBN: 9780727764669
£165.75
The International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction 2019 (ICSIC) brings together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing.
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Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2017: Realising the potential
Author(s): Edited by Kevin Burgess
Publication date: 06 September 2018
ISBN: 9780727763174
£400.00
The ICE Coasts, Maritime Structures and Breakwaters conference series, sponsored by the ICE for over thirty years, is the leading international forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal and maritime engineering.
The eleventh conference, Realising the Potential, was held in Liverpool from 5th to 7th September 2017. Across t
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Engineering in Chalk: Proceedings of the Chalk 2018 Conference
Author(s): British Geotechnical Association (BGA)
Publication date: 31 August 2018
ISBN: 9780727764072
£114.50
This volume contains the proceedings of a major two-day international conference on Engineering in Chalk, organised by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), with support from the Engineering Group of the Geological Society (EGGS). Bringing together the knowledge and experience gained in the last three decades the papers in this collection pre
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Smart Dams and Reservoirs: Proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference of the British Dam Society 2018
Author(s): Edited by Andrew Pepper
Publication date: 17 August 2018
ISBN: 9780727764119
£200.25
Smart Dams and Reservoirs contains the proceedings of the 20th Biennial Conference of the British Dam Society that took place from 13-15th September 2018.
Many new techniques and methods are now available for investigating, designing, constructing and monitoring dams. The papers in this book give examples of how new ideas have been used in pract
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Tunnelling in the Urban Environment (Géotechnique Symposium in Print 2017)
Author(s): Edited by Lidija Zdravkovic
Publication date: 24 January 2018
ISBN: 9780727763778
£69.00
With urban tunnel construction growing worldwide, the ability to accurately predict the ground and structural response to tunnelling and the associated risks is now more important than ever before. Engineers are expected to consider all aspects of tunnel engineering in order to safeguard existing infrastructure, by employing field monitoring, physi
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Dams - Benefits and Disbenefits; Assets or Liabilities?
Author(s): Edited by Andrew Pepper
Publication date: 22 August 2016
ISBN: 9780727761330
£200.25
This book contains the proceedings of the 19th Biennial Conference of the British Dam Society, Dams - Benefits or Disbenefits; Assets or Liabilities?
Work to reservoirs and dams today covers far more than engineering, and the papers in this book show how engineers integrate their work with other disciplines to minimise the adverse impacts of sch
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Transforming the Future of Infrastructure Through Smarter Information: Proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction
Author(s): RJ Mair, K Soga, Y Jin, AL Parlikad and JM Schooling
Publication date: 21 June 2016
ISBN: 9780727761279
£187.25
The International Conference on Smart Infrastructure and Construction (ICSIC) brings together world-leading academics and practitioners from the fields of infrastructure planning, asset management and sensing. Transforming the Future of Infrastructure through Smarter Information covers a wide range of topics of relevance to smart infrastructure and
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Coastal Management: Changing coast, changing climate, changing minds
Author(s): Alison Baptiste (ed.)
Publication date: 20 January 2016
ISBN: 9780727761149
£302.00
The Institution of Civil Engineers Coastal Management conference series is the leading forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal engineering. The 8th conference took place in Amsterdam, The Netherlands from 8-9 September 2015 and attracted delegates from over 30 countries.
The proceedings of this conference, Coastal Manage
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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geotechnique Symposium in Print
Author(s): Stuart Haigh (ed.)
Publication date: 16 November 2015
ISBN: 9780727761491
£78.75
The many large earthquakes of the last decade, including the series in Christchurch in 2010-2011 and the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, have focused even greater attention on the cyclic behaviour of soils during these events. Great advances have recently been made on all aspects of soil dynamics, from the prediction of liquefaction based on site inves
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Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Author(s): MG Winter, DM Smith, PJL Eldred and DG Toll
Publication date: 11 September 2015
ISBN: 9780727760678
£379.00
These volumes contain the proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE), Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development. Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development covers a wide range of topics which are of direct relevance to all who work within the broad field of g
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From Sea to Shore - Meeting the Challenges of the Sea
Author(s): Edited by William Allsop and Kevin Burgess
Publication date: 08 September 2014
ISBN: 9780727759757
£461.50
The ICE Coasts, Maritime Structures and Breakwaters conference series, sponsored by the ICE for over thirty years, is the leading forum for the presentation of the latest developments in coastal and maritime engineering. The tenth conference, From Sea to Shore - Meeting the Challenges of the Sea, was the largest in the history of the series attract
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Bio- and Chemo- Mechanical Processes in Geotechnical Engineering
Author(s): Edited by Lyesse Laloui
Publication date: 03 September 2014
ISBN: 9780727760531
£88.25
In recent years, substantial advances have been made in understanding the coupling between chemical and biological processes and mechanical and hydraulic behaviours in soils and rocks. At the same time, experimentation and modelling capabilities have progressed significantly, allowing effective design of geotechnical applications. The need for such
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Maintaining the Safety of our Dams and Reservoirs
Author(s): Edited by Andrew Pepper
Publication date: 21 August 2014
ISBN: 9780727760340
£168.25
Maintaining the Safety of our Dams and Reservoirs covers a wide range of topics which are of direct relevance to all who work with dams and reservoirs, whether in the UK or abroad, be they owners, maintainers, designers or constructors.
The changes to the UK's legislative frameworks for dam safety are covered, as are examples of the many environ
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Forensic Engineering: Informing the Future with Lessons from the Past
Author(s): Edited by John Carpenter
Publication date: 06 September 2013
ISBN: 9780727758224
£161.50
Forensic Engineering: Informing the Future with Lessons from the Past is the published proceedings from the Institution of Civil Engineers' Fifth International Conference on Forensic Engineering, held in London on 16-17 April 2013. The conference maintained a 150 year tradition pioneered by Telford, Brunel and Stephenson, where lessons learned from
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Partial Saturation in Compacted Soils
Author(s): Edited by Domenico Gallipoli
Publication date: 13 March 2013
ISBN: 9780727757753
£88.25
Compacted soils are relevant to many geotechnical applications, from earth dams to infrastructure embankments, nuclear waste disposal and rammed-earth buildings. Every geotechnical structure made of compacted soils will include sections that remain partly saturated at least for a period of its service life. Improved understanding of this fast growi
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Joint Ventures in Construction 2: Contract, governance, performance and risk
Author(s): Edited by Kiyoshi Kobayashi, Khairuddin Abdul Rashid, Masamitsu Onishi and Sharina Farihah Hasan
Publication date: 27 September 2012
ISBN: 9780727757838
£92.75
A collection of carefully selected papers from the International Conference on Multi-National Joint Ventures for Construction Works held in varying locations within the Asia Pacific region.;The book endeavours to report ongoing debates on the theory and practiceof contract and contract formation, governance, performance and risk in joint ventures,
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Ensuring Reservoir Safety into the Future
Author(s): H. Hewlett
Publication date: 04 September 2008
ISBN: 9780727735225
£197.00
Latest essential information on reservoir safety from the heart of the water management profession The new title from Thomas Telford contains the proceedings from the 15th Conference of the British Dam Society. Ensuring Reservoir Safety into the Future discusses key topics and correct events including the state of the UK reservoir management and le
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Use of Foamed Concrete in Construction
Author(s): Professor Ravindra K Dhir, Dr Moray D Newlands, Dr A McCarthy
Publication date: 28 July 2005
ISBN: 9780727734068
£100.00
Concrete is at something of a crossroads: there are many opportunities and some threats. For those opportunities to change into beneficial practice, engineers, material scientists, architects manufacturers and suppliers must focus on the changes that are required to champion concrete and maintain its dominance within the global construction indust
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Admixtures - Enhancing Concrete Performance
Author(s): Professor Ravindra K Dhir, Professor Peter Hewlett, Dr Moray D Newlands
Publication date: 28 July 2005
ISBN: 9780727734075
£116.25
Concrete is at something of a crossroads: there are many opportunities and some threats.; For those opportunities to change into beneficial practice, engineers, material scientists, architects manufacturers and suppliers must focus on the changes that are required to champion concrete and maintain its dominance within the global construction indust
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Geoenvironmental Engineering
Author(s): Edited by R N Young and H R Thomas
Publication date: 30 June 2004
ISBN: 9780727732774
£88.25
This new book containing the proceedings of the 4th Geoenvironmental Engineering Conference, organised by the British Geotechnical Association and Cardiff University's School of Engineering, held in Stratford-Upon-Avon in June 2004. The theme of the conference was Integrated Management of Groundwater and Contaminated Land. This book is a compilatio
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Breakwaters, Coastal Structures and Coastlines
Author(s): ICE
Publication date: 20 February 2003
ISBN: 9780727730428
£128.50
This volume presents the proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers' seventh internaional conference on coastlines, structures and breakwaters. The papers contained in the volume cover wide ranging advances in international research and experience in the field of coastal and harbour engineering.
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Current and Future Trends in Bridge Design, Construction and Maintenance 2: Safety, Economy, Sustainability and Aesthetics
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers, Highways Agency and International Association for Bridge Maintenance and Safety
Publication date: 14 December 2001
ISBN: 9780727730916
£140.25
The Institution of Civil Engineers has organised a series of conferences to celebrate, at the start of the New Millennium, the enormous achievements made in the field of bridge engineering in recent years.
This volume of papers from the second of these conferences, held in Hong Kong, encompasses the state-of-the-art in bridge design, constructio
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Bridge Modification 2: Stronger and Safer Bridges
Author(s): Edited by B Pritchard, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 01 March 1997
ISBN: 9780727725899
£46.50
Changes in vehicle weight limits and revisions to safety standards inevitably increase the demands placed on bridges. Increases in traffic flow seen over the past years also mean that many bridges are carrying much greater loads than their designers ever anticipated.
Following from the very successful Bridge Modification conference in 1994, this
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Arch Bridges
Author(s): Prof C Melbourne, University of Salford
Publication date: 07 April 1995
ISBN: 9780727720481
£100.00
In the twentieth century bridge engineers have seen many changes. Advances in technology, materials and engineers understanding of structural behaviour and methods of analysis has presented opportunities for innovation and have led to increasingly sophisticated solutions to the basic problem of providing a bridge over an obstacle.
However, despi
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Vegetation and Slopes: Stabilisation, Protection and Ecology
Author(s): Edited by D Barker
Publication date: 06 April 1995
ISBN: 9780727720313
£40.75
Recent concerns over the durability and whole-life costs of systems such as steel and concrete, has focused attention on the self-repairing ability of vegetation, and its low-tech and low whole-life cost and maintenance requirements. The awareness of the beneficial effects of vegetation has been increasing within the civil engineering profession, a
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Engineering A Cathedral
Author(s): M.J. Jackson
Publication date: 31 December 1994
ISBN: 9780727716842
£57.25
Engineering a cathedral offers professional engineers, architects and interested lay people a unique opportunity to study the construction of one of the world's finest buildings. Durham cathedral celebrates its 900th anniversary in 1993 and to mark the event a group of engineers have applied their modern knowledge and techniques to its structure. W
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Large Scale Pile Tests in Clay
Author(s): Mr J Clarke
Publication date: 08 April 1993
ISBN: 9780727719188
£64.50
During the 1980's a number of high quality, large scale pile tests, sponsored by the offshore industry, Department of Energy and EEC, were performed at onshore locations in clays similar to those encountered in installations in the North Sea. At the same time research was being carried out to instrument and monitor the piled foundation beneath one
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The Embankment Dam
Author(s): The British Dam Society
Publication date: 12 April 1991
ISBN: 9780727716477
£76.25
This is a state-of-the art survey of embankment dams. Drawing on an international authorship, it provides up to date information from many countries on research, environmental considerations, risks, hazards and safety. A major part of the book is devoted to a wide-ranging study of tailings dams, which draws together current international practice.
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Engineering for Offshore Fish Farming
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 30 October 1990
ISBN: 9780727716019
£81.00
The growth in offshore fish farming in the past decade has produced a crucial need to develop engineering solutions to its unique problems. The search for cleaner waters and the need to avoid polluting coastlines, combined with a general desire for expansion, have meant that farmers are constructing farms in ever more aggressive wave environments.
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