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  • Big Bim Little Bim - the Practical Approach to Building Information Modeling - Integrated Practice Done the Right Way!

    by Finith Jernigan ...
    The breakthrough book BIG BIM little bim gives practical approaches that architects, engineers, owners, educators, students and builders can understand and apply today. Based on twenty years of successful integrated projects, this book will help you to cut through the hype to achieve clarity about integrated practice and building information modeling. ... Read more

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  • Architecture Design Notebook

    by A Peter Fawcett ...
    Architecture Design Notebook focuses on the process of design as pragmatic and non-theoretical. Dealing systematically with the core design curriculum, it clearly demonstrates the skills required for designing at undergraduate level.Providing students with fundamental maxims of design, and a framework within which they can approach their work, this book supports undergraduates as they learn to ... Read more

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  • Cladding of Buildings

    by Alan J. Brookes, Alan J. Brookes, Maarten Meijs ...
    This key text addresses the topic of lightweight claddings in buildings and is a useful guide and reference resource.Written by well-known specialists in the field, this fourth edition of an established text has been revised throughout to incorporate the latest environmental issues, the use of wood and terracotta in cladding, and use of new materials, particularly the new moulded materials. Two ... Read more

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  • Beginner's Guide to Japanese Joinery

    Make Japanese Joints in 8 Steps With Minimal Tools

    by Jin Izuhara ...
    If you want to make Japanese joints, without spending money on expensive tools then read on...Are you a weekend carpenter that wants to make traditional Japanese joints?Do you want to apply Japanese ingenuity of design to everyday furniture and give them a special character?Do you want to do so without spending a lot of time or money?For centuries before the invention of screws and fasteners, ... Read more

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  • Building Support Structures, 2nd Ed., Analysis and Design with SAP2000 Software

    by Wolfgang Schueller ...
    This textbook provides a unique and comprehensive perspective on the analysis and design of building structures. Striving to bridge the gap between how engineers and architects view structural support, this book’s numerous examples employing SAP2000 illustrate how modern analysis software can provide a common language for understanding and exploring structural behavior. Using an organic approach ... Read more

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  • Construction Operations Manual of Policies and Procedures, Fifth Edition

    by Sidney M. Levy, Andrew M. Civitello Jr. ...
    The latest tools and techniques for successfully managing construction operations CONSTRUCTIONFully revised throughout, the new edition of this practical guide offers a wealth of proven strategies for effectively running a construction business, delivering high-quality projects on time and within budget, and maximizing profits--all gleaned from the authors' decadeslong experience in the ... Read more

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  • Operative Mapping

    The Use of Maps as a Design Tool

    by Roger Paez ...
    Operative Mapping investigates the use of maps as a design tool, providing insight with the potential to benefit education and practice in the design disciplines.The book’s fundamental aim is to offer a methodological contribution to the design disciplines, both in conceptual and instrumental terms. When added to the resources of contemporary design, operative mapping overcomes the analytical and ... Read more

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  • La fin du ciment

    Les bonnes et les mauvaises raisons d'une technologie sans avenir

    by Raffaele Piero Galli ...
    "Nous concevons et construisons en béton, comme si rien n'existait. Aujourd’hui, nous prenons pour acquis sa participation à la construction, après avoir presque totalement oublié qu’avant son apparition, nous avions beaucoup et très bien construit depuis très longtemps."Le professeur Raffaele Piero Galli illustre à travers la chimie, l’histoire, l’expérience et exemples concrets pour lesquels le ... Read more

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  • Construction Technology For Tall Buildings (Fifth Edition)

    by Yit Lin Michael Chew ...
    This 5th edition covers the latest practices and processes of various alternative methods for the construction of tall buildings from foundation to roof. The text progresses through the stages of site investigation, excavation and earthmoving, foundation construction, basement construction, structural systems for the superstructure, site and material handling, wall and floor construction, external ... Read more

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  • A Guide to Socially-Informed Research for Architects and Designers

    by Michelle Janning ...
    This book offers an efficient set of step-by-step tips and overarching lessons about how to gather useful, meaningful, and socially-informed data about clients’ and other stakeholders' experiences in architecture and interior design professions.In this guide, author Michelle Janning helps the design professional conduct ongoing evaluation of design projects, create useful pre- and post-design ... Read more

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  • Oxymoron and Pleonasm Conversation on American Critical

    Conversations on American Critical and Projective Theory of Architecture

    Edited by Monika Mitasova ...
    Monika Mitasova interviewed an influential group of current American theorists, historians and practitioners proposing critical and projective architecture, respectively, which forms the first book that brings those perspectives together to show the state of current critical and projective theory, practice and new alternative actions of designing architecture.Interviewed theorists: Kenneth ... Read more

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  • Coastal Ocean Space Utilization 3

    by R.B. Abel, S. Connell, N. Della Croce ...
    Arising out of The Third International Symposium held in New Jersey, this book represents the state-of-the-art in ocean management. From the Baltic to the Caribbean, from the Adriatic to the Atlantic, the problems of ocean management are fully discussed, and proposals made to meet the challenges of the next decade. This book will be of immense inte ... Read more

    PHP3,671.83

  • Water Wells - Monitoring, Maintenance, Rehabilitation

    Proceedings of the International Groundwater Engineering Conference, Cranfield Institute of Technology, UK

    Edited by P. Howsam ...
    Throughout the world, boreholes and tubewells operate inefficiently or have been abandoned. Diagnosis of the problems requires hydrogeological and operational information, which is often not available because appropriate monitoring has not taken place. Guidelines on cost effective monitoring and maintenance need to be established; information on su ... Read more

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  • Structural Competency for Architects

    by Hollee Hitchcock Becker ...
    Structural Competency for Architects is a comprehensive volume covering topics from structural systems and typologies to statics, strength of materials, and component design. The book includes everything you need to know about structures for the design of components, as well as the logic for design of structural patterns, and selection of structural typologies.Organized into six key modules, each ... Read more

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  • Properties of Fresh Concrete

    Proceedings of the International RILEM Colloquium

    Edited by H.J. Wierig ...
    This book presents new information on concrete properties and production in the light of the widespread use of ready mixed concrete and new concreting materials. This book forms the Proceedings of the RILEM Colloquium held in Hanover, West Germany in October 1990. Papers from 18 countries in Europe, North America and the Far East are included. ... Read more

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  • Designed to Perform

    An Illustrated Guide to Delivering Energy Efficient Homes

    by Tom Dollard ...
    How do we ensure sustainable buildings perform as intended? The performance gap between predicted and actual energy use in new homes has been identified as key problem by government and industry experts. This updated edition is an illustrated practical design guide to delivering better energy performance in all types of new build homes. It introduces readers to the concept of the performance gap ... Read more

    PHP2,503.65

  • Data Visualization for Design Thinking

    Applied Mapping

    by Winifred E. Newman ...
    Data Visualization for Design Thinking helps you make better maps. Treating maps as applied research, you’ll be able to understand how to map sites, places, ideas, and projects, revealing the complex relationships between what you represent, your thinking, the technology you use, the culture you belong to, and your aesthetic practices. More than 100 examples illustrated with over 200 color images ... Read more

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  • Good Practice Guide

    Business Resilience

    by Mark Kemp ...
    Architecture can be a high risk and low-income profession. Planning to manage risks is essential. Workloads tend to be cyclical and managing lean periods and booms whilst being prepared for the next downturn is a key requirement. This book is a how-to guide to build business resilience into your architectural practice, offering methods for managing business-critical events and crises. It shows you ... Read more

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  • La autoconstrucción de una casa

    Edilicia de la vivienda

    by Xavier Fonseca, Armando Fonseca ...
    La autoconstrucción de una casa es un manual que detalla el proceso para edificar una vivienda desde la preparación del terreno, pasando por la excavación, los cimientos, los drenajes, los muros, la instalación eléctrica hasta llegar a los terminados.Esta obra de la colección ¡… una casa! es una herramienta imprescindible para asesorar técnicamente a arquitectos, ingenieros, estudiantes de ... Read more

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  • Housing for the Urban Homeless

    by Richard Lighthouse ...
    This short technical paper describes a technology method for restoring old buildings at very low cost. These restored structures can be used to provide housing for the homeless. It implies a method for architectural preservation for any structure. An example structure is provided along with the basic calculations. Each reader must comprehend that our universe literally blinks, off and on, more ... Read more

    PHP232.59

  • Dilectis Hispaniae - Guía de la España Olvidada

    by Jorge Lucendo ...
    El libro «Dilectis Hispaniae» -Guía de la España Olvidada-, recoge todos los monumentos históricos más emblemáticos de eso que se ha dado en llamar «La España del Recuerdo». Nuestro rico Patrimonio Histórico Cultural se queja de abandono en muchas ocasiones, en la mayoría de ellas por desconocimiento del valor de esos edificios o monumentos, y en otros muchas, por falta de medios económicos para ... Read more

    PHP279.80

  • HAPM Workmanship Checklists

    by Construction Audit Ltd. ...
    The HAPM Workmanship Checklists fills an important gap in the current information provision in the industry, providing guidance for those engaged in site inspections during the course of building works. Its unique checklist format, designed for use on site, is complimented by extensive references to sources of guidance, standards and legislative in ... Read more

    PHP18,944.97

  • Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structures

    by Yves Weinand ...
    Design of Integrally-Attached Timber Plate Structuresoutlines a new design methodology for digitally fabricated spatial timber plate structures, presented with examples from recent construction projects. It proposes an innovative and sustainable design methodology, algorithmic geometry processing, structural optimization, and digital fabrication; technology transfer and construction are formulated ... Read more

    PHP3,496.95

  • Doors

    History, Repair and Conservation

    Edited by Michael Tutton, James Campbell ...
    In Doors: History, Repair and Conservation, readers are guided through the function, history, development, care, repair and conservation of doors by chapter authors who are experts in their field. This book offers depth and range of detail from dating and archaeology right through to the surveying, recording, engineering and curation of the door, its furniture and the part of the building into ... Read more

    PHP5,420.59