Science and Technics / Technology & engineering / Architecture, construction

Planning for a Sustainable Future

by Sue Batty, Simin Davoudi & Antonia Layard

Sustainable Development is now firmly on the planning agenda and is an issue neither practitioner nor academic can afford to ignore. Planning for a Sustainable Future provides a multi-disciplinary overview of...

Urban Planning And The Development Process

by David Adams

This text is about the very essence of urban planning in a market economy. It is concerned with people - landowners, developers, investors, politicians and ordinary members of the public - who produce change...

Digital Collections

by Suzanne Keene

Suzanne Keene's pioneering book shows how museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and electronic communications and, most importantly, how they can take advantage of what...

Upholstery Conservation: Principles and Practice

by Dinah Eastop & Kathryn Gill

This well referenced book provides an amply illustrated publication on upholstery conservation which discusses and reviews the issues related to the care, interpretation and treatment of upholstered furniture....

Architecture of Schools: The New Learning Environments

by Mark Dudek

This is the standard design guide on schools architecture, providing vital information on school architecture.

Mark Dudek views school building design as a particularly specialised field encompassing ever changing...

Getting There by Design

by Kenneth Allinson

There was military project management. There was construction project management. Then there was business project management, a tool described as 'the wave of the future'. Where are architects in all this, professionals...

Masted Structures in Architecture

by James Harris & Kevin Li

This is the first fully comprehensive survey and analysis of masted structures and covers examples that have evolved during the past three decades.

Masted Structures are one of the most interesting developments...

Designing for the Disabled: The New Paradigm

by Selwyn Goldsmith

Selwyn Goldsmith's Designing for the Disabled has, since it was first published in 1963, been a bible for practising architects around the world. Now, as a new book with a radical new vision, comes his Designing...

Lighting: Interior and Exterior

by Robert Bean

This guide shows how the concepts used in lighting design arise from the needs of the designer and the user. These concepts are shown in a practical context to enable you to develop and improve your design skills....

Metric Handbook

by David Littlefield

• Fully updated in reference to the latest construction standards and new building types

• Sustainable design fully integrated into each chapter

• Over 100,000 copies sold to successive generations of architects...

Basic Surveying

by Raymond Paul & Walter Whyte

The primary aim of this book is to provide a guide to current practice and equipment for non-specialist surveyors in the various professions involved in the construction industry and the environment. It is suitable...

New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice

by Duncan Cartlidge

The past decade has seen dramatic changes in the construction industry and the quantity surveying profession. The Latham and Egan reports and a client-led crusade for value for money is driving Quantity Surveyors...

Illustrated Dictionary of Building

by Peter Brett

An Illustrated Dictionary of Building is ideal for practitioners and students on GNVQ, NVQ Construction and The Built Environment and Building Craft Operative courses. The guide is also useful reference for...

Constructive Communication

by Richard Ellis

Richard Ellis is a consultant in communications and the successful author of 'Communication for Engineers'. In each chapter he highlights key points and situations, and provides exercises to consolidate what...

Making People-Friendly Towns: Improving the Public Environment in Towns and Cities

by Francis Tibbalds

Making People-Friendly Towns explores the way our towns and cities, particularly their central areas, look and feel to all their users and discusses their design, maintenance and management. Francis Tibbalds...

Risk Management in Projects

by Martin Loosemore, John Raftery & Charles Reilly

Project managers in construction and civil engineering need to base their decisions on realistic information about risk and public perceptions of risk. This second edition of the original practical and straightforward...

Building Desire: On the Barcelona Pavilion

by George Dodds

In 1986 on the centenary of Mies van der Rohe's birth, a new Barcelona Pavilion was built on the site of the original 1929 German Pavilion. That same decade marked the 150th anniversary of photography. Since...

Landscape Modernism Renounced: The Career of Christopher Tunnard (1910-1979)

by David Jacques & Jan Woudstra

Before the Second World War landscape architect Christopher Tunnard was the first author on Modernism in Landscape in the English language, but later became alarmed by the destructive forces of Post-war reconstruction....

Building Performance Simulation for Design and Operation

by Jan L. M. Hensen & Roberto Lamberts

Effective building performance simulation can reduce the environmental impact of the built environment, improve indoor quality and productivity, and facilitate future innovation and technological progress in...

Handbook of Strategic Environmental Assessment

by Ralf Aschemann, Thomas Jahn & Maria Rosario Partidario

This authoritative handbook surveys the full breadth and depth of SEA, bringing together a range of international perspectives and insights on the theoretical, methodological and institutional dimensions and...