Construction Failure, 2nd Edition

Construction Failure, 2nd Edition Review

First published in 1968, Jacob Feld's Construction Failure has long been considered the classic text on the subject. Retaining all of the key components of Feld's comprehensive exploration of the root causes of failure, this Second Edition addresses a multitude of important industry developments to bring this landmark work up to date for a new generation of engineers, architects, and students.

In addition to detailed coverage of current design tools, techniques, materials, and construction methods, Construction Failure, Second Edition features an entire chapter on the burgeoning area of construction litigation, including a thorough examination of alternative dispute resolution techniques. Like the original, this edition discusses technical and procedural failures of many different types of structures, but is now supplemented with new case studies to illustrate the dynamics of failure in action today.

Jacob Feld knew thirty years ago that in order to learn from our mistakes, we must first acknowledge and understand them. With this revised volume, Kenneth Carper has ensured that Feld's now-posthumous message will continue to be heard for years to come.

Jacob Feld's comprehensive work on failure analysis has now been skillfully amended to address current design and construction tools, materials, and practices. Building on the first edition's peerless examination of the causes and lessons of failure, Construction Failure, Second Edition provides you with expanded coverage of:
* Technical, procedural, structural, and nonstructural failures
* Natural hazards, earthworks, soil and foundation problems, and more
* Reinforced, precast and prestressed concrete, steel, timber, masonry, and other materials
* Responsibility and litigation concerns, dispute avoidance, and alternative dispute resolution techniques
* Construction safety issues
* Many different types of structures, including dams and bridges


Construction Failure has as much to teach us today as it did thirty years ago. This revised volume is an essential resource for design engineers, architects, construction managers, lawyers, and students in all of these fields.

Construction Audit Guide: Overview, Monitoring, and Auditing

Construction Audit Guide: Overview, Monitoring, and Auditing Review

Whether building a new office, improving real estate portfolios, or refurbishing and modernizing existing property, construction projects can present significant risks for an organization. Construction projects offer fertile ground for fraud and mismanagement. Auditors are best qualified and placed in the organization to assist in establishing construction controls and in appraising progress to mitigate project risks. Ongoing audits can provide senior executives with relevant and timely governance issues as they occur. This handbook provides a framework to make sure you address the risks for your projects. It includes the ABC's of a successful construction project, coverage of construction basics, understanding the world of contractors, and when and how to audit the project.

Project Management, Planning and Control, Fifth Edition: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards

Project Management, Planning and Control, Fifth Edition: Managing Engineering, Construction and Manufacturing Projects to PMI, APM and BSI Standards Review

Fully aligned with the latest 2006 Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) for both the Project Management Institute (PMI) and the Association of Project Management (APM), this book is a vital study aid for any Project Management Professional (PMP) qualification and reference that practising project managers will want to keep to hand.

Each of the core project management topics and principles is explained and applied through a careful balance of theory and practical examples. With its real-life case studies of engineering, manufacturing and construction projects, clear summaries and self-test resources, the book is a complete guide for any project manager.
The author: Albert Lester was a project manager with Tarmac Construction and Foster Wheeler Power Products, managing large multi-discipline projects. He has been a compiler and examiner for the APMP certificate, lectures on project management and has assessed many project management courses for APM.

* Covers the complete body of knowledge for project management professionals in the engineering, manufacturing & construction sectors
* Covers all theory & practice for the newly revised PMI and APM qualification exams and the latest version of BS 6079-1:2002
* Online Q&A resources for self-testing written by a qualified PMP exam accreditor

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs

Concrete Construction Methods and Costs Review

This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.

Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music)

Silent Music: Medieval Song and the Construction of History in Eighteenth-Century Spain (Currents in Latin American and Iberian Music) Review

Silent Music explores theimportance of music and liturgy in an eighteenth-century vision of Spanish culture and national identity. From 1750 to 1755, the Jesuit Andrés Marcos Burriel (1719-1762) and the calligrapher Francisco Xavier Santiago y Palomares (1728-1796) worked together in Toledo Cathedral for the Royal Commission on the Archives, which the government created to obtain evidence for the royal patronage of church benefices in Spain. With Burriel as director, the Commission transcribed not only archival documents, but also manuscripts of canon law, history, literature, and liturgy, in order to write a new ecclesiastical history of Spain. At the center of this ambitious project of cultural nationalism stood the medieval manuscripts of the Old Hispanic rite, the liturgy associated with Toledo's Mozarabs, or Christians who had continued to practice their religion under Muslim rule. Burriel was the first to realize that the medieval manuscripts differed significantly from the early-modern editions of the Mozarabic rite. Palomares, building on his work with Burriel, wrote a history of the Visigothic script in which he noted the indecipherability of the music notation in manuscripts of the Old Hispanic rite. Palomares not only studied manuscripts, but also copied them, producing numerous drawings and a full-size, full-color parchment facsimile of the liturgical manuscript Toledo, Biblioteca Capitular 35.7 (from the late eleventh or early twelfth century),which was presented to King Ferdinand VI of Spain. Another product of this antiquarian concern with song is Palomares's copy (dedicated to Bárbara de Braganza) of the Toledo codex of the Cantigas de Santa Maria.For both men, this silent music was invaluable as a graphic legacy of Spain's past. While many historians in the Spanish Enlightenment articulated the idea of the modern nation through the study of the Middle Ages, Burriel and Palomares are exceptional for their treatment of musical notation as an object of historical study and their conception of music as an integral part of history.

A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction, 4th Edition

A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction, 4th Edition Review

Ideal for both working professionals and students, this classic work serves as a truly comprehensive resource for site design and planning. Now in a new and fully updated Fourth Edition, A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction presents both design elements and technical site planning information in a clear, concise, and highly visual format. As a teaching tool, it guides the reader through the actual development of a site plan, and demonstrates how to carry out the necessary calculations and specifications. By combining a design approach with technical background data, it enables creative talent to be used to the utmost advantage. Its broad range of coverage makes it an excellent study guide for the registration examinations in both architecture and landscape architecture.

The first of its three sections introduces the reader to the critical thinking process, and fully explains design guidelines, resource analysis and site selection, visual design factors, natural elements, land use, and circulation. The second section, on site engineering and landscape construction, covers contour lines, grading and earthwork calculations, site drainage, alignment of horizontal and vertical curves, site and landscape construction details, plant material, and specifications. The final section offers a broad array of illustrative project types, including detailed material on sports facilities and playgrounds, rooftop gardens, and residential development concepts.

A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction is lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photos, site plans, and line drawings, as well as an abundance of figures, tables, charts, and sample problems. New material in the Fourth Edition includes resource analysis with wetlands and steep slope districts, the latest accessibility guidelines, updated coverage of bikeway design, road alignment and circulation patterns, and safety guidelines for playgrounds.

For practitioners and students in architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and civil engineering, A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction offers an indispensable and authoritative reference.

A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction

Now, in a new edition, this classic reference integrates the principles and processes of site design with detailed technical information.

Featuring a design approach to site planning fully supported by detailed technical data, A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction has become widely recognized as the best single-source reference work available in the field. Its clarity, comprehensiveness, and attractive visual format make it an indispensable reference tool for both practitioners and students, as well as an excellent study guide for the registration exams in architecture and landscape architecture. Organized to follow the actual development of a site plan, this book guides the reader through the planning process and covers all the key elements, including:
* Basic design principles
* Site selection and resource analysis
* Land use and circulation
* Development design guidelines
* Contour lines, grading design, and earthwork calculations
* Drainage and erosion control
* Roadway alignment
* Site and landscape construction details
* Plant material in site planning
* Specifications
* Illustrative project types, including sports facilities, playgrounds, rooftop gardens, and residential development concepts


With over 560 illustrations, including photos, site plans, and drawings, A Guide to Site Planning and Landscape Construction is a rich resource for architects, landscape architects, planners, and civil engineers.

Cover Design: Robin Lee Malik

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills

Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors: Basic Skills Review

Get a realisitic guide to producing construction documents that clearly communicate the interior space of new construction, remodeling, or installation projects with Construction Drawings and Details for Interiors. This highly visual book:

• includes such details as furniture, finishes, lighting, and others.
• features authors drawings as well as those from practicing professionals.
• covers drafting fundamentals and conventions; drawing types, plans, and schedules; and computer-aided design.
• addresses graphic language as a communication tool.
• details the process of creating construction documents, the use of computers, and various reproduction systems and standards.
• includes examples of both residential and commercial interiors.
• is an essential reference for NCIDQ examination.

Order your copy today.

Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing (Studies in Written Language and Literacy)

Writing and Identity: The Discoursal Construction of Identity in Academic Writing (Studies in Written Language and Literacy) Review

This study on writing and identity within academic writing includes case studies of eight mature students.

Print Reading for Construction: Residential and Commercial, Instructors Guide

Print Reading for Construction: Residential and Commercial, Instructors Guide Review

Print Reading for Construction is designed to assist students in reading and understanding residential and commercial prints. This practical text is suitable for vocational students, apprentices, and building trades workers who want to increase their knowledge of print reading and construction drawings. The combination text and workbook presents a thorough discussion of print reading techniques, starting with the basics of print reading and progressing to advanced topics.

-Includes a set of 116, 17" x 22" foldout prints, which provide learners with realistic on-the-job experiences.
-Provides four comprehensive print reading projects at the end of the text.
-Full color, used throughout the text, enhances student comprehension of the subject matter.

Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use (Popular Woodworking)

Workbenches: From Design And Theory To Construction And Use (Popular Woodworking) Review

Every workbench should be able to easily work the edges, faces and ends of boards. But most benches built during the last 100 years fail on at least one of these tasks. This book dives deep into the historical records of the 18th and 19th centuries and breathes new life into traditional designs that were fantastic to use. These old-school benches are simpler than modern benches, easier to build and perfect for both power and hand tools.The reader will learn the fundamental rules of good workbench design that have been largely forgotten. The book explains all of the complex vises and ways of holding work so the reader can understand what they do. And it shows you how to use this knowledge to design a workbench any reader will love, using two venerable designs as basic skeletons. Unlike other books on the topic, this one isn't a tour of unusual or beautiful workbenches. Instead it's essential reading for anyone who likes to get their hands dirty in their workshop.

Construction Administration for Architects

Construction Administration for Architects Review

An On-the-Job Construction Administration Resource for Architects

Co-written by an architect and an attorney, this is the ideal desktop guide for architects, engineers, and other design professionals in need of expert advice on navigating the construction process and anticipating, avoiding, and managing liability risks. This invaluable construction administration resource leads you, step-by-step, through a typical project--from contract to closeout.

Construction Administration for Architects provides tested techniques for proactively minimizing potential construction problems, and responding strategically when unforeseen events occur. Covering private and public sector work, this comprehensive handbook contains essential information for emerging professionals as well as in-depth strategies for experienced industry veterans. Useful tips, checklists, and real-world examples are included throughout the book.

Construction Administration for Architects covers:

• Agreements and contracts
• Construction document details, such as specifications, drawing notes, project scope, credits, and cost estimates
• Requests for proposal, bidding, and construction contract negotiation
• Field testing, inspection, and certification of work
• Documents management, including requests for substitution, requests for information, submittals, and applications for payment
• Problems and disputes, such as poor workmanship, hidden conditions, and change order requests
• Contract closeout details, including schedule claims, retainage, and liens
• Post-construction warranty work and records retention
• Managing and limiting liability risk

Trading Systems: A New Approach to System Optimisation and Portfolio Construction

Trading Systems: A New Approach to System Optimisation and Portfolio Construction Review

Every day the sun rises on the horizon there are some traders who make a fortune. It seldom happens but it does happen, as the names of William Eckhardt, Ed Seykota, Jim Simons, and many others remind us. And you can be one of them.

'Trading Systems' is an insight into what a trader should know and do in order to achieve success on the markets. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to build a winning trading system.

Divided into three parts, this book highlights exactly how you can build that system.

Ship Construction, Sixth Edition

Ship Construction, Sixth Edition Review

Ship Construction is a comprehensive text for students of naval architecture, ship building and construction, and for professional Naval Architects and Marine Engineers as a refresher on the latest developments in ship types, safety and shipyard practices. Beginning with an introduction to ship building and concluding with the finished product, the book enables the reader to follow the construction of a ship from start to finish. Eyres explores in depth, chapter by chapter, the development of ship types, materials and strengths of ships, welding and cutting, shipyard practice, ship structure and outfitting. The new edition includes a new chapter on computer-aided design and manufacture, and all the latest international regulations and technological developments.

· Covers the complete ship construction process including the development of ship types, materials and strengths of ships, welding and cutting, shipyard practice, ship structure and outfitting
· All the latest developments in technology and shipyard methods, including a new chapter on computer-aided design and manufacture
· Essential for students and professionals, particularly those working in shipyards, supervising ship construction, conversion and maintenance

Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry

Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets: How to Fix America's Trillion-Dollar Construction Industry Review

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Across the nation, construction projects large and small—from hospitals to schools to simple home improvements—are spiraling out of control. Delays and cost overruns have come to seem “normal,” even as they drain our wallets and send our blood pressure skyrocketing. In Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets, prominent construction attorney Barry B. LePatner builds a powerful case for change in America’s sole remaining “mom and pop” industry—an industry that consumes .23 trillion and wastes at least 0 billion each year.

 

With three decades of experience representing clients that include eminent architects and engineers, as well as corporations, institutions, and developers, LePatner has firsthand knowledge of the bad management, ineffective supervision, and insufficient investment in technology that plagues the risk-averse construction industry. In an engaging and direct style, he here pinpoints the issues that underlie the industry’s woes while providing practical tips for anyone in the business of building, including advice on the precise language owners should use during contract negotiations.

Armed with Broken Buildings, Busted Budgets, everyone involved in the purchase or renovation of a building or any structure—from homeowners seeking to remodel to civic developers embarking on large-scale projects—has the information they need to change this antiquated industry, one project at a time.
 
“LePatner describes what is wrong with the current system and suggests ways that architects can help—by retaking their rightful place as master builders.”—Fred A. Bernstein, Architect Magazine

 

“Every now and then, a major construction project is completed on time and on budget. Everyone is amazed. . . . Barry LePatner thinks this exception should become the rule. . . . A swift kick to the construction industry.”—James R. Hagerty, Wall Street Journal  

The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality

The Mystery of Capital and the Construction of Social Reality Review

John Searle’s The Construction of Social Reality and Hernando de Soto’s The Mystery of Capital shifted the focus of current thought on capital and economic development to the cultural and conceptual ideas that underpin market economies and that are taken for granted in developed nations. This collection of essays assembles 21 philosophers, economists, and political scientists to help readers understand these exciting new theories.

Sustainable Construction: Use of Incinerator Ash

Sustainable Construction: Use of Incinerator Ash Review

Opportunities for developing sustainable utilisation are becoming increasingly advantageous, and the recovery of maximum value waste materials is a key concern in this process. One of the most effective approaches to value recovery is through the genreation of heat and power from waste incineration are significant, disposal of the ash generated is the main difficulty to justifying this process as a wholly sustainable waste management solution.

This is the Proceedings of the major international workshop that took place at the University of Dundee during March 2000.

Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction, Fourth Edition: The handbook for construction professionals and students on NEBOSH and other construction courses

Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction, Fourth Edition: The handbook for construction professionals and students on NEBOSH and other construction courses Review

This NEBOSH-endorsed textbook will introduce you to the fundamentals of health and safety on the construction site, whether studying for a course or in need of more information on the subject as part of your job.

Introduction to Health and Safety in Construction is the definitive handbook to the National Certificate in Construction: Health and Safety from NEBOSH, with each element of the syllabus explained in detail, and all relevant legislation summarized for quick reference. To make studying easier, each chapter starts with learning outcomes and ends with questions taken from recent NEBOSH examinations, and a chapter of sample answers can be found at the end of the book.

This book covers the specific health and safety challenges faced by the construction industry, as well as the basics of occupational health and safety in general. It covers all the essential elements of health and safety management: the legal framework, risk assessment and control standards, and includes checklists, report forms and record sheets. This book is also relevant for built environment and construction courses both in the UK and overseas, as well as providing a handy reference for managers and qualified professionals dealing with day-to-day health and safety issues.

. Over 60 new diagrams and photographs in full colour . Restructured in line with new 2010 NEBOSH syllabus . Covers new regulations on Tower Cranes, Supply of machinery (safety) Regulations 2008, Control of Artificial Optical Radiation at Work, Chemicals (Hazard Information and Packaging for Supply) Regulations (CHIP4), and European Classification: Packaging and Labelling . Beyond the syllabus there is a chapter on environmental protection, including the new environmental permitting regime . A summary of Lord Young's 2010 report Common Sense - Common Safety . A chapter with guidance on searching the internet, with a range of significant health and safety websites, where readers can access huge amounts of guidance and statistical data