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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...

Building Surveys

by Peter Glover

Since the first edition was published in 1983, Building Surveys has been the core text in its field for students and professionals alike. Covering everything needed for initial inspections such as equipment,...

Future Forms and Design For Sustainable Cities

by Mike Jenks & Nicola Dempsey

Concentrating on the planning and design of cities, the three sections take a logical route through the discussion from the broad considerations at regional and city scale, to the larger city at high and lower...

Laboratory Design Guide

by Brian Griffin

Laboratory Design Guide 3rd edition is a complete guide to the complex process of laboratory design and construction. With practical advice and detailed

examples, it is an indispensable reference for anyone involved...

Sustainable Construction

by Sandy Halliday

It has taken a very long time for sustainable development to be recognised as a justified restraint on inappropriate development and a primary driver of improving quality of life for all.

For designers, clients...

Wiring Regulations in Brief

by Ray Tricker

• Tired of trawling through the Wiring Regs?
• Perplexed by Part P?
• Confused by cables, conductors and circuits?

Then look no further! This handy guide provides an on-the-job reference source for Electricians,...

Electrician's Exam Study Guide 2/E

by Kimberley Keller

Ace the Journeyman and Master Electrician Exams!

Featuring more than 1,500 practice questions and answers, Electrician’s Exam Study Guide, Second Edition provides everything you need to prepare for and pass...

Building Codes Illustrated: A Guide to Understanding the 2012 International Building Code

by Francis D. K. Ching & Steven R. Winkel

An easy-to-use, updated illustrated guide to the 2012 edition of the International Building Code

This unique reference to the 2012 International Building Code marries the graphic skills of bestselling author...