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This popular and useful text has been completely revised and up-dated so that it forms and indipensible handbook for any student of surveying.An additional chapter on modern developments is included and the text has also been extended to cover ordnance survey; calculation of areas; computation of...
Published March 6th 1991 by Routledge
Series: Occupational Safety and Health
Provides managers, architects, plant engineers, technicians, and others with a concise background in the principles of fire protection and property loss control (a new chapter on life safety elements was added to the second edition). Some of the topics are the characteristics and behavior of fire, t...
Published February 28th 1991 by CRC Press
This unique handbook collects together a comprehensive and up-to-date range of indices measuring construction costs and price movements. The authors give guidance on the use of the data making this an essential aid to accurate estimating....
Published February 20th 1991 by Routledge
Published January 16th 1991 by CRC Press
The series comprises selected translations of Russian geotechnical literature, and this is a translation of a 1989 second edition reference. Coverage includes laws governing expansion and contraction of argillaceous soils, principles governing deformation of soil mass and foundations during soil exp...
Published December 31st 1990 by Taylor & Francis
A classic report from FRS describing different methods for calculating adequate space separation between buildings, in support of Approved Document B of the Building regulations for England and Wales....
Published December 31st 1990 by IHS BRE Press
A report on the thermal behaviour of buildings and their components. Describes methods and precautions to be adopted with the technique of infra-red thermography....
Published December 31st 1990 by IHS BRE Press
Based on the findings of a comprehensive survey of underpinning practice, the report gives guidance on how to determine that a foundation problem exists and the need for underpinning....
Published December 31st 1990 by IHS BRE Press
Testing of materials and manufactured items is a key element in the process from standard specifications though control and verification during manufacture to trade in actual products. Cooperative agreements and networks are being set up covering reference materials and calibration. This process is...
Published October 3rd 1990 by CRC Press
This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in...
Published September 26th 1990 by Routledge
