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Green Building: Project Planning and Cost Estimating

by John Wiley & Sons

A unique cost reference, updated and expanded, for architects, engineers, contractors, building owners, and managers

Green building is no longer a trend. Since the publication of the widely read first edition...

The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, Study Guide

by Sharon Koomen Harmon & Katherine E. Kennon

The Codes Guidebook for Interiors, Fifth Edition features jargon-free explanations of all the codes and standards of concern to designers and architects, including performance codes, fire codes, building and...

Design Details for Health: Making the Most of Design's Healing Potential

by Cynthia A. Leibrock & Debra Harris

Praise for Design Details for Health

"Cynthia Leibrock and Debra Harris have developed a vitally important reference. They draw upon and compile a rich source of evidence that supports the application of specific...

Graphic Standards Field Guide to Home Inspections

by Stephen Gladstone

Quick, reliable answers to your most common on-site questions

When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. The Wiley Graphic Standards Field Guide to Home Inspections gives you fast access...

Retrofitting Suburbia, Updated Edition: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs

by Ellen Dunham-Jones & June Williamson

Updated with a new Introduction by the authors and a foreword by Richard Florida, this book is a comprehensive guide book for urban designers, planners, architects, developers, environmentalists, and community...

Graphic Standards Field Guide to Hardscape

by Leonard J. Hopper

Quick, reliable answers to your most common on-site questions

When you're in the field, you never know what you'll come across. The Graphic Standards Field Guide to Hardscape gives you fast access to the practical...

Kitchen and Bath Design: A Guide to Planning Basics

by Mary Fisher Knott

The all-in-one reference to designing stunning and functional kitchens and baths

Designing for today's kitchens and baths requires technical savvy, a keen eye for aesthetics, and perhaps most important of all,...

Interior Design Visual Presentation: A Guide to Graphics, Models and Presentation Techniques

by Maureen Mitton

Develop the skills you need to deliver presentations that sell.

This unique resource focusing on the visual design and presentation skills of the interior designer, offers thorough, process-oriented coverage...

Sustainable Preservation: Greening Existing Buildings

by Jean Carroon & Richard Moe

A guide to green strategies for preservation and adaptive reuse—and the power of preservation/reuse as a green strategy.

Buildings account for nearly forty percent of both total energy use and carbon emissions...

Sustainable Landscape Management: Design, Construction, and Maintenance

by Thomas W. Cook & Ann Marie VanDerZanden

The complete guide to the sustainable management of landscapes

A must-have guide for anyone working with landscapes, Sustainable Landscape Management eases the transition of the landscape industry into a new...

Guide to the LEED Green Associate Exam (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design #17)

by Michelle Cottrell

Proven strategies to pass the LEED Green Associate exam

Here is the ideal study guide for understanding and preparing for the LEED Green Associate exam. Written by an expert who is a LEED consultant and partner...

Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast

by Elinor DeWire & Paul Eric Johnson

Interest in the history and preservation of lighthouses has never been stronger. Lighthouses of the Mid-Atlantic Coast details the history of lighthouses and much more, and shows why these structures continue...

The LabVIEW Style Book

by Peter A. Blume

This is the eBook version of the printed book. &

Drawing on the experiences of a world-class LabVIEW development organization, The LabVIEW Style Book is the definitive guide to best practices in LabVIEW development....

Greene & Greene Furniture

by David Mathias

One hundred years ago Charles and Henry Greene developed a new and distinctive architectural and decorative style that blended Arts & Crafts and Asian influences with California sensibility and obsessive attention...

Spatial Planning and Climate Change

by Elizabeth Wilson & Jake Piper

The effects of climate change on spatial planning are discussed thoroughly in this comprehensive book, which includes information on recent legislation, case studies from the UK and Netherlands, general information...

Affluence, Mobility and Second Home Ownership

by Chris Paris

Ownership of multiple homes has become increasingly popular throughout the Western world, with the UK and Ireland seeing a particular surge in recent years. Paris addresses the reasons why, and the effects,...

Industrial Engineering Projects

by The Joint Development Board

This handbook provides a clear explanation of the commercial, contractual and statutory aspects of a capital project in the process industries from feasability studies, through commissioning/contract; to construction...

Steel Structures

by Hassan Al Nageim & T J MacGinley

Covers the fundamentals of practical structural engineering and structural steel design and moves on to look more closely at a number of different types of built structures and their design in useful practical...

Diffusion of Chloride in Concrete

by L Mejlbro & E Poulsen

Primarily aimed at practising engineers engaged in analysis and design of concrete structures exposed to a chloride laden environment, Diffusion of Chloride in Concrete is also a useful reference for engineering...

Transport Matters

by Angela Hull

Addressing the principles of sustainability, spatial planning, integration, governance and accessibility of transport, this book focuses on the key social problems of the twenty-first century: efficient and...