Site Planning and Design Handbook

Site Planning and Design Handbook

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional | 2009 | ISBN: 0071605584

  Pages: 528 | PDF | 17,55 MB

Essential site planning and design strategies, up-to-date with the latest sustainable development techniques

Discover how to incorporate sound environmental considerations into traditional site design processes. Written by a licensed landscape architect with more than 20 years of professional experience, this authoritative guide combines established approaches to site planning with sustainable practices and increased environmental sensitivity.

Fully revised and updated, Site Planning and Design Handbook, Second Edition discusses the latest standards and protocols-including LEED. The book features expanded coverage of green site design topics such as water conservation, energy efficiency, green building materials, site infrastructure, and brownfield restoration. This comprehensive resource addresses the challenges associated with site planning and design and lays the groundwork for success.

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The Civil Engineering Handbook

The Civil Engineering Handbook, 

Second Edition,
PDF | 2904 Pages | 30.20 MB

First published in 1995, the award-winning Civil Engineering Handbook soon became known as the field's definitive reference. To retain its standing as a complete, authoritative resource, the editors have incorporated into this edition the many changes in techniques, tools, and materials that over the last seven years have found their way into civil engineering research and practice.

The Civil Engineering Handbook, Second Edition is more comprehensive than ever. You'll find new, updated, and expanded coverage in every section. In fact, more than 1/3 of the handbook is new or substantially revised. In particular you'll find increased focus on computing reflecting the rapid advances in computer technology that has revolutionized many aspects of civil engineering.

You'll use it as a survey of the field, you'll use it to explore a particular subject, but most of all you'll use The Civil Engineering Handbook to answer the problems, questions, and conundrums you encounter in practice.

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Architect's Portable Handbook, 3rd Edition

Architect's Portable Handbook, 3rd Edition
PDF | 705 Pages | 12.3 MB

When it comes to providing architects with quick, accurate guidance for a complete range of on-the-job issues, no book matches The Architect's Portable Handbook from McGraw-Hill.

Some of the highlighted features :
• Compiles all the rules of thumb and referenced facts to provide a convenient, one-stop resource for builders and architects • Updated to include new cost information and coverage of the latest International Building and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Codes • Hundreds of diagrams, charts, tables, checklists, details, and other design data for building materials, components, and assemblies • Structured to follow typical job progression, this resource covers initial planning and estimating through design and construction


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Planning, Estimating & Control of Chemical Construction Project

Planning, Estimating & Control of Chemical Construction Project
PDF | 480 ages | 39.02 MB

Experienced project managers had their collections of data, and one could always find books on the theory of project management; however, the data available were often inconsistent, and there was rarely an explanation of what it actually represented. Understanding the theory is great, but it does not give one the data and detail required to actually manage, estimate, schedule,o r contract.

In our contacts with plant project managers, we at FMC recognized that this informational void still existed and commissioned Pablo Navarrete to fill it. This book represents the result of that effort. In addition to committing his knowledge to writing, Pablo has conducted many courses for our plant project managers and found that this material is just what they needed.

Although real data are a unique strength of this book, the text also provides theory and valuable guidance through checklists, do's and don't s, and typical problems and corrective actions. As novice project managers plan, estimate, schedule, contract, and actually execute their projects, they will understand what isimportant, the whys as well as the whats.


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Construction Cost Management

Construction Cost Management
PDF | 321 Pages 1.70 MB

Aimed at students of Surveying and Construction Management programmes, this book uniquely embraces cost management in both the building and civil engineering sectors in the
UK and overseas and should thus prove useful to practitioners. Seminar questions are included at the end of each chapter with additional links to over 100 project case studies in order to
reinforce the learning experience.

Keith Potts examines the key issues and best practice in the cost management of construction projects under traditional contracts and new methodologies. All stages within the life cycle of a project are considered from pre-contract to tendering and post-contract.
Worked examples, legal cases and over 65 project case studies are used to illustrate the practical application of the theory, where appropriate.

Extensive references are captured, including the UK government’s Constructing Excellence programme and the National Audit Reports, in order to further develop an understanding of the subject. Reference is made to major projects such as the Scottish Parliament Building, Wembley Stadium and BAA’s Heathrow Terminal 5.


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Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work

Estimating and Tendering for Construction Work

 Third Edition,  Martin Brook
Butterworth-Heinemann | ISBN 0750658649 | 3 edition (August 11, 2004)
PDF | 1.8 Mb | 328 pages

The job of the estimator is explained in detail at every key stage, from early cost studies, through the preparation of the estimate, to the creation of budgets for successful tenders. Each step is illustrated with examples and notes, and appropriate technical documentation.

Over recent years there have been significant developments in construction management, notably new procurement methods, greater emphasis on innovation and partnering, a greater reliance on cost planning as a methodology, and new developments in both industry and governmental reports and guidance.

This new and updated edition of a well-established textbook addresses each of these developments in turn, placing them firmly in the context of a thorough and easy to understand introduction to the roles of the estimator in preparing and winning tenders.

Practical approach to estimating from the contractor's point of view
Fully up-to-date with new procurement methods
Many examples of estimators' notes and documents

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Analysing Architecture

Analysing Architecture
Simon Unwin,
Routledge | ISBN: 0415144787 | 2001
207 pages | PDF | 34.3 MB

 Clear and accessible, Analysing Architecture opens a fresh way to understanding  architecture. It offers a unique notebook of architectural strategies to present an  engaging introduction to elements and concepts in architectural design. 

Beautifully  illustrated throughout with the author's original drawings, examples are drawn from across  the world and many periods of architectural history (from prehistoric times to the recent  past) to illustrate analytical themes and to show how drawing can be used to study  architecture. Since its first edition appeared in 1997, Analysing Architecture has  established itself internationally as one of the key texts in architectural education.

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Contemporary Views on Architecture

Contemporary Views on Architecture and  
Representations in Phonology
Eric Raimy, Charles E. Cairns,
The MIT Press | ISBN: 026218270X | 2009
PDF | 428 pages | 2,43 mb

 Leading phonologists discuss contemporary work on the topics of metrical theory, feature theory, syllable theory, and the relation among grammatical modules.

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Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design:

Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design: 

Cultural Process and Environmental Response

  Kingston Wm. Heath Ph.D.,
Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750659335 | April 29, 2009 

 PDF | 211 pages | 28,5 MB 

Sustainable design requires that design practitioners respond to a particular set of social, cultural and environmental conditions. 'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' defines a set of strategies for understanding the complexities of a regional setting. Through a series of international case studies, it examines how architects and designers have applied a variety of tactics to achieve culturally and environmentally appropriate design solutions.

. Shows that architecture and design are inextricably linked to social and environmental processes, and are not just technical or aesthetic exercises.
. Articulates a variety of methods to realise goals of socially responsible and environmentally responsive design.
. Calls for a principled approach to design in an effort to preserve fragile environments and forge sustainable best practice.

'Vernacular Architecture and Regional Design' will appeal to educators and professional practitioners in the fields of architecture, heritage conservation and urban design.

Dr. Kingston Wm. Heath is Professor and Director of the Historic Preservation Program at the University of Oregon. Previously he was Professor of Architecture at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte where he taught seminars on vernacular architecture and regional design theory. He holds graduate degrees from the University of Chicago and Brown University. In addition to numerous articles in scholarly journals, he is the author of Patina of Place, and winner of the Abbott Lowell Cummings Award from The Vernacular Architecture Forum for excellence in a scholarly work. He has earned an international reputation in the field of vernacular architecture and has directed field schools in Italy and Croatia.


* A series of international case studies demonstrates the place of vernacular architecture in the design process for a wide selection of contemporary architects' work.
* Offers a clear analysis of the vernacular building tradition, placing architecture in its social context.
* Introduces a new, socially and environmentally inspired approach to sustainable design.

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