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  • Oiling the Urban Economy Oiling the Urban Economy
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    Oiling the Urban Economy

    This book presents a critical analysis of the 'resource curse' doctrine and a review of the international evidence on oil and urban development to examine the role of oil on property development and rights in West Africa's new oil metropolis -...
    $116.00

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  • Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract
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    Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract

    Understanding the NEC4 ECC Contract uses plain English to lead the reader through the NEC4 Engineering and Construction Contract's key features. This is one of the most widely used contracts in the UK and internationally.
    $308.00

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  • Absorber Types in Vapour Absorption Refrigeration Systems Absorber Types in Vapour Absorption Refrigeration Systems
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    Absorber Types in Vapour Absorption Refrigeration Systems

    This book addresses the increasing energy demand associated with the global refrigeration industry driven by the need for cooling. It proposes the substitution of vapor compression refrigeration systems (VCRS) with vapor absorption refrigeration systems...
    $424.00

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    Women in Construction

    This edited book aims to provide a scientific compendium of findings on gender issues in the construction sector and contribute to discussions on plurality and inclusion; and provide baseline data for policy design and future research on women working in...
    $385.00

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  • Project Communication Management in Complex Environments Project Communication Management in Complex Environments
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    Project Communication Management in Complex Environments

    This unique book that deals with project communication management in complex environments, taking a leaf from China's experience with a major earthquake in Sichuan, would be a timely contribution to fill this lacuna. Readers would be able to understand...
    $184.00

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  • Technology Standard of Pipe Rehabilitation Technology Standard of Pipe Rehabilitation
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    Technology Standard of Pipe Rehabilitation

    This book summarizes the technical method and construction process of underground pipeline testing, cleaning, updating and repairing. It has 20 chapters and an appendix in total. Its content includes: Pipeline rehabilitation construction organization...
    $220.00

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  • Technical Safety, Reliability and Resilience Technical Safety, Reliability and Resilience
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    Technical Safety, Reliability and Resilience

    This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments. The focus is on working definitions, fundamental development processes, safety...
    $92.00

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  • Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance
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    Cross-Cultural Management and Quality Performance

    This book explores China's global competitiveness in the building of infrastructures with a particular interest in the resource-rich African countries. The book begins with a comprehensive literature review on total quality management (TQM) and national...
    $227.00

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  • Infrastructure Investments in Developing Economies Infrastructure Investments in Developing Economies
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    Infrastructure Investments in Developing Economies

    This book aims to provide knowledge on how infrastructure is planned and built in a typical developing country, and what key variables are there in the system limiting the efficient use of public investments in infrastructure. The book begins with a...
    $220.00

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  • Project Quality Management Project Quality Management
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    Project Quality Management

    The book presents the development of the Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS), Singapore's de facto quality performance measurement system, explains the application of the Quality Management System (QMS) to manage CONQUAS and identifies 33...
    $184.00

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  • Lean Construction Management Lean Construction Management
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    Lean Construction Management

    The book presents a mixed research method adopted to assess and present the Toyota Way practices within construction firms in general and for firms in China specifically. The results of an extensive structured questionnaire survey based on the Toyota...
    $270.00

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  • Strengthening of Concrete Structures Strengthening of Concrete Structures
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    Strengthening of Concrete Structures

    This book presents unified design approach for strengthening concrete members with different techniques such as concrete, steel, and FRP jacketing. Preference between the various techniques is explained in light of strengthening limits, procedures, and...
    $285.00

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  • Building Back Better After the 2015 Nepal Earthquake Building Back Better After the 2015 Nepal Earthquake
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    Building Back Better After the 2015 Nepal Earthquake

    This book explores the reconstruction after the 2015 Gorkha Nepal earthquake, on the basis of the author's first-hand experience that has been validated with empirical evidence. Unlike other advocacy and academic literature, the book takes readers close...
    $216.00

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  • Managing Building Deterioration Managing Building Deterioration
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    Managing Building Deterioration

    This book presents the results of a novel investigation into building deterioration and defects in Malaysia's public schools. It sets forth an in-depth theoretical and empirical underpinning the maintenance management of public schools with the view to...
    $238.00

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  • Sustainable Architecture and Building Environment Sustainable Architecture and Building Environment
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    Sustainable Architecture and Building Environment

    This book presents articles from the International Conference on Sustainable Design, Engineering, Management, and Sciences (ICSDEMS 2020), held in Bali, Indonesia. It highlights recent advances in civil engineering and sustainability, bringing together...
    $281.00

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  • Urban Biodiversity and Built Environment Urban Biodiversity and Built Environment
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    Urban Biodiversity and Built Environment

    This book proposes the concept of urban multiple habitats and then analyzes its corresponding classification, function and potential supply capability. It provides an analysis framework for studying the relationship between urban biodiversity and built...
    $335.00

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  • Carbon Footprints Carbon Footprints
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    Carbon Footprints

    This book addresses carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in various industrial sectors. There are numerous sectors whose carbon footprints need to be calculated, and effective ways to mitigate the greenhouse-gas emissions from these sectors need...
    $259.00

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  • Advanced Structural Safety Studies Advanced Structural Safety Studies
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    Advanced Structural Safety Studies

    This book describes principles, industry practices and evolutionary methodologies for advanced safety studies, which are helpful in effectively managing volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) environments within the framework of quantitative...
    $92.00

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  • Building in Hot and Humid Regions Building in Hot and Humid Regions
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    Building in Hot and Humid Regions

    This book presents an in-depth analysis covering climatic and weather conditions, house and building development history, construction methods and technologies, and environmental conditions. It provides relevant house and building information and...
    $308.00

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  • Simplified Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Buildings Simplified Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Buildings
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    Simplified Dynamic Analysis of High-Rise Buildings

    This book presents a simple analytical method based on the extended rod theory that allows the earthquake resistance of high-rise buildings to be easily and accurately evaluated at the preliminary design stage. It also includes practical software for...
    $249.00

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  • Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering
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    Frontiers in Geotechnical Engineering

    This volume contains contributions by eminent researchers in the field of geotechnical engineering. The chapters of this book are based on the keynote and theme lectures delivered at the Indian Geotechnical Conference 2018, and discuss the recent issues...
    $281.00

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  • Nocturnal Cooling Technology for Building Applications Nocturnal Cooling Technology for Building Applications
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    Nocturnal Cooling Technology for Building Applications

    This book discusses nocturnal cooling technologies for building applications. Exploiting the natural environment as a renewable and sustainable resource has become a significant strategy for passive energy saving in buildings, and has led to growing...
    $116.00

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  • An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety
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    An Economic Analysis on Automated Construction Safety

    This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety. Combining case studies, literature reviews and interviews to study the issue, it presents cutting-edge applications of various information technologies...
    $216.00

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  • Humanizing Digital Reality Humanizing Digital Reality
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    Humanizing Digital Reality

    This book aims at finding some answers to the questions: What is the influence of humans in controlling CAD and how much is human in control of its surroundings? How far does our reach as humans really go? Do the complex algorithms that we use for city...
    $270.00

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  • Analysis Procedure for Earthquake Resistant Structures Analysis Procedure for Earthquake Resistant Structures
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    Analysis Procedure for Earthquake Resistant Structures

    This book presents an analysis procedure for structures that are exposed to the lateral loads such as earthquake and wind. It includes the process for calculating and distributing the effective load into structural elements, as well as for calculating...
    $294.00

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  • Structural Health Monitoring for Suspension Bridges Structural Health Monitoring for Suspension Bridges
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    Structural Health Monitoring for Suspension Bridges

    This book presents extensive information on structural health monitoring for suspension bridges. During the past two decades, there have been significant advances in the sensing technologies employed in long-span bridge health monitoring. However,...
    $249.00

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  • Concrete Structures in Earthquake Concrete Structures in Earthquake
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    Concrete Structures in Earthquake

    This book gathers 23 papers by top experts from 11 countries, presented at the 3rd Houston International Forum: Concrete Structures in Earthquake. Designing infrastructures to resist earthquakes has always been the focus and mission of scientists and...
    $270.00

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  • Science of Societal Safety Science of Societal Safety
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    Science of Societal Safety

    This open access book covers comprehensive but fundamental principles and concepts of disaster and accident prevention and mitigation, countermeasures, and recovery from disasters or accidents including treatment and care of the victims. Safety and...
    $122.00

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  • Simplified Analytical Methods of Elastic Plates Simplified Analytical Methods of Elastic Plates
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    Simplified Analytical Methods of Elastic Plates

    This book presents simplified analytical methodologies for static and dynamic problems concerning various elastic thin plates in the bending state and the potential effects of dead loads on static and dynamic behaviors. The plates considered vary in...
    $249.00

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  • Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete
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    Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete

    This book discusses design aspects of steel fiber-reinforced concrete (SFRC) members, including the behavior of the SFRC and its modeling. It also examines the effect of various parameters governing the response of SFRC members in detail. Unlike other...
    $249.00

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  • CRM or Die CRM or Die
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    CRM or Die

    This is a must-read for all firm leaders, regardless of what business you are running or market your business is in. These authors truly understand that a company's success is directly tied to successfully maintaining and growing client relationships...
    $48.00

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  • Determinants of Construction Project Success in India Determinants of Construction Project Success in India
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    Determinants of Construction Project Success in India

    1 Introduction2 Research Method3 Major Attributes of Project Performance4 Critical Success Factors For Projects5 Project Performance Prediction6 Success Traits For a Construction Project 7 Project Coordination For Success8 Other Issues in Project...
    $238.00

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  • The Risk City The Risk City
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    The Risk City

    Contemporary cities face phenomenal risks, and they face particularly high levels of mounting social and environmental risks, including social polarization, urban conflicts, riots, terror, and climate change threats. This book suggests that climate...
    $122.00

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  • Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering
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    Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering

    This book contains the full papers on which the invited lectures of the 4th International Conference on Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering (4ICEGE) were based. The conference was held in Thessaloniki, Greece, from 25 to 28 June, 2007. The papers offer a...
    $270.00

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  • Energy Saving in Buildings Energy Saving in Buildings
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    Energy Saving in Buildings

    OPENING Introductory address by Mr. G. M. V. ~ AARIENNE, Minister of Economic Affairs of 3 the Netherlands Opening address by Dr. A. STRUB, Corrmission of the European Communi ties, 6 Brussels KEYNOTE SPEECHES Building physics:...
    $335.00

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  • Performance-Based Contracts for Road Projects Performance-Based Contracts for Road Projects
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    Performance-Based Contracts for Road Projects

    This book focuses on the aspects of contracting contracts, basically related to road construction and management contracts. The book presents an analytical study of Performance-Based Road Management and Maintenance (PMMR), Funktionsbauvertrag (FBV)...
    $184.00

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