construction technology

Construction Technology

Product Description: Construction Technology covers the basic elements of substructure (site works, setting out and foundations) and superstructure (flooring and roofs, simple finishes, fittings

• Release Date: 2005-12-30
• Category: Civil Engineering
• Tags: Construction Technology

Construction Technology: An Illustrated Introduction

This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to every aspect of the technology of low-rise construction. It includes sub-structure (site work, setting out and foundations

• Release Date: 2005-03-14
• Category: Building & Construction
• Tags: Construction Technology Illustrated Introduction

How Users Matter: The Co-Construction of Users and Technology (Inside Technology)

Users have become an integral part of technology studies. The essays in this volume look at the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Using

• Release Date: 2003-11-01
• Category: Culture
• Tags: How Users Matter The Construction Users Technology Inside Technology

Constructing Socialism: Technology and Change in East Germany, 1945-1990 (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)

, standardization, technology transfer and technological tourism, and espionage. Constructing Socialism investigates specific technologies and machines but also emphasizes the people who designed and implemented them

• Release Date: 2000-08-17
• Category: Germany
• Tags: Constructing Socialism Technology Change East Germany 1945 1990 Johns Hopkins Studies the History Technology

Components and Systems: Modular Construction Design, Structure, New Technologies

Product Description: Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them

• Release Date: 2008-12-05
• Category: Architecture
• Tags: Components Systems Modular Construction Design Structure New Technologies

Laboratory Design, Construction, and Renovation: Participants, Process, and Product

new construction or renovation that will determine how successfully the facility will function when completed and how successfully it can be maintained once put into service.

This book provides

• Release Date: 2000-05-01
• Category: Building & Construction
• Tags: Laboratory Design Construction Renovation Participants Process Product

Construction Project Management: Planning and Scheduling (Trade, Technology & Industry)

unique, sequential approach to construction project management, this text describes "pencil and paper" techniques for establishing project goals and objectives, arranging the set goals into a network

• Release Date: 1995-01-17
• Category: Industries & Professions
• Tags: Construction Project Management Planning Scheduling Trade Technology Industry

Practical Design, Construction and Operation of Food Facilities (Food Science and Technology)

Around the world concerns about cost, efficiency, and safety - employee, product, process and consumer -- have led to changes in the way food plants are planned, constructed and evaluated. From

• Release Date: 2008-08-21
• Category: Architecture
• Tags: Practical Design Construction Operation Food Facilities Food Science Technology

Constructing Correct Software (Formal Approaches to Computing and Information Technology)

, which allows the construction of (necessarily correct) algorithms from a specification using algebraic transformations and refinement techniques which prevent the introduction of errors. Based on teaching

• Release Date: 2004-10-25
• Category: Software Engineering
• Tags: Constructing Correct Software Formal Approaches Computing Information Technology

HIGH-PERFORMANCE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS: Science and Applications (Engineering Materials for Technological Needs)

This book describes a number of high-performance construction materials, including concrete, steel, fiber-reinforced cement, fiber-reinforced plastics, polymeric materials, geosynthetics, masonry

• Release Date: 2008-06-11
• Category: Building & Construction
• Tags: HIGH PERFORMANCE CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS Science Applications Engineering Materials Technological Needs