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All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable.
Do you work on jobs between 50 and 50,000? - Then this book is for you.
Specially written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's Estimating Cost Guide to Plumbing and Heating contains accurate information on thousands of rates each broken down to labour, material overheads and profit.
The first book to include typical project costs for:

• rainwater goods installations
• bathrooms
• external waste systems
• central...

Reflecting the historic first European seismic code, this professional book focuses on seismic design, assessment and retrofitting of concrete buildings, with thorough reference to, and application of, EN-Eurocode 8. Following the publication of EN-Eurocode 8 in 2004-05, 30 countries are now introducing this European standard for seismic design, for application in parallel with existing national standards (till March 2010) and exclusively after that. Eurocode 8 is also expected to influence standards in countries outside Europe, or at the least, to be applied there for important...

Historical stone arch bridges are still a major part of the infrastructure in many countries. Although this type of bridge has proven to be an efficient construction type, it often poses the problem of insufficient numerical models of the load bearing behavior. Therefore the book introduces methods to adapt life loads and introduces different types of numerical models of the load resistance respectively. The book continues with the introduction of specific damages and strengthening techniques. The book particularly focuses on the probabilistic safety assessment of historical arch bridges,...

This volume presents selected edited papers given at the Symposium on Computational Structure Engineering (CSE 09) co-organized by Tongji University and Vienna University of Technology, held in Shanghai, 22-24 June, 2009.

Owing to great progress in computing technology, in computer as well as in programming technology, computation has become one of the most powerful tools for researchers and practicing engineers. It has led to tremendous achievements in computer-based structural engineering and there is evidence that this tendency will be accelerated.

In recent years, concepts of...

Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects. It focuses on a number of important issues, such as:

• Network communication protocols and standards, including the application of the internet.
• The integration and interfacing of building automation subsystems and multiple building systems.
• Local and supervisory control strategies for typical building...

This volume covers the interdisciplinary field of disaster mitigatition against earthquakes with special emphasis on prevention of total collapse of existing low rise buildings towards reduction of life losses and economical assets. Rehabilitation of thousands of low-rise buildings in many big cities located in earthquake prone areas, is practically impossible even though there are experimentally and analytically approved intervention techniques to protect these existing buildings. It is simply not possible to find a proper way and proper amount of financial support to do this job. It will...

This dictionary covers all of these aspects: it presents terminology that is used in thermodynamics and transport, as well as terminology depicting the...

Die erweiterte Neuauflage bietet eine umfassende Einfuhrung in die Grundlagen der Bemessung und Konstruktion von Stahlbeton- und Spannbetontragwerken. Vermittelt wird aktuelles Wissen durch den Bezug auf DIN 1045-1 der Fassung 2008 sowie die zukunftige europaisch einheitliche Betonbaunorm EN 1992-1-1 (EUROCODE 2) erganzt um die nationalen Anwendungsregeln Deutschlands und Osterreichs.

Die Bemessung im Grenzzustand der Tragfahigkeit fur Biegung und Langskraft, Querkraft und Torsion wird durch eine Einfuhrung in Stabwerkmodelle, die Bemessung von Schubfugen und die Nachweise gegen...

A major challenge in applied mathematics and mechanics of materials is to describe various types of material microstructures. The details of the microstructure of most natural and engineered materials are usually obscure; uncertainty and randomness are the inherent features. This complexity due to material heterogeneity has not been adequately described by current classical models and theories.

Stochastic Modeling of Microstructures presents a concise and unified presentation of the basic principles and tools for the modeling of real materials, natural and man-made, that...