# Full title: Conceptual structural design: bridging the gap between architects and engineers
# Author(s): Olga Popovic Larsen, Andy Tyas
# Publisher: Thomas Telford 2003
# ISBN-10: 0727732358
# ISBN-13: 9780727732354
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Author: Walter Isaacson | Size: 6 MB | Format:mobi | Publisher: Simon & Schuster | Year: 2011 | ISBN: 978-1451648539
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
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This book takes general business accounting and financial principles as well as engineering economics and adapts them to the unique characteristics of the construction industry. It provides all of the key financial management principles needed by construction managers under one cover, addressing how they are applied in the construction industry and how they interact. This book teaches students how to account for the company’s financial resources, how to manage the costs and profits of a construction company, how to manage the company’s cash flows, how to evaluate different sources of funding a company’s cash needs, and how to quantitatively analyze financial decisions.
From the Back Cover
Written to benefit professionals already in the industry and students who are still seeking a degree, Construction Accounting and Financial Management provides the necessary background for construction managers to make key financial decisions.
Focusing on the principles of accounting and financial management required to make construction companies financially sound, the book covers such key topics as determining profitability of projects, projecting cash flow, and projecting costs.
In this new edition, Peterson has updated much of material to make it even more relevant to today’s students. Highlights include:
Key topics include determining profitability, projecting costs and cash flow
Updated average industrial ratios include 10 years of data.
Updated the tax codes throughout the book
All sidebar features now use Excel.
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Author: Edward R. Fisk & Wayne De Reynolds | Size: 16.85 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Prentice Hall | Year: 2009 | pages: 648 | ISBN: 0135000076
Using simple, straightforward language, this text addresses how a successful construction project is managed and administered from design through construction to closeout. With the goal of uniting the key stakeholders (contractors, architects, engineers, etc) and providing them with a workable system for operating as an effective construction team, Construction Project Administration reflects the latest technology, laws and regulations. Topics pertinent to each stage of a project are introduced and discussed as they occur throughout the life of the project. Numerous real-world examples are included.
This edition includes coverage of BIM, the introduction of the 2004 version of CSI Masterformat™ and a complete chapter on electronic project administration. By tracing a construction project from start to finish, Construction Project Administration offers a single source of information for all in the construction industry.
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The Architecture of Stations and Terminals >> By Francisco Asensio Cerver
Author: Francisco Asensio Cerver | Size: 23.66 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: Whitney Library of Design | Year: July 1997 | pages: 99 | ISBN: ISBN-10: 0823002578 ; ISBN-13: 978-0823002573
In this book, a reconsideration of public architecture is presented by means of analysing the best airpo rts and rail stations created in recent years.
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Creating an appealing overall look as well as a distinctive image for each shop...integrating communal areas...handling parking and public facilities...these are just some of the challenges facing the designers of modern shopping malls. Shop and Malls features dozens of remarkable examples of successful malls, each one showcased with floor plans, insightful text, sketches, and full-color photographs that show how the designers met the retail challenge. Shop and Malls is a one-stop shopping resource for design professionals, architects, and urban planners.
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Creating an appealing overall look as well as a distinctive image for each shop…integrating communal areas…handling parking and public facilities…these are just some of the challenges facing the designers of modern shopping malls. Shop and Malls features dozens of remarkable examples of successful malls, each one showcased with floor plans, insightful text, sketches, and fullcolor photographs that show how the designers met the retail challenge. Shop and Malls is a onestop shopping resource for design professionals, architects, and urban planners.
An architecture scholar and one of the founders of the IAC (institute for alternative culture). Following a successful period at the Atrium Group (Barcelona), he has now joined Grupo Links – Structure as the publishing director of various contemporary architecture collections. He is currently investigating the evolution of new American housing, as part of multi-country project. He lives in Barcelona.
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Author: AIR FORCE | Size: 27 MB | Format:PDF | Publisher: AIR FORCE PUBLICATION | Year: Augest 1987 | pages: 388 | ISBN: unknown
Chapter 1. Materials Testing Overview
Chapter 2. Soils
Classification, Exploration, and Field Identification
Soil Surveys and Sampling
Sieve Analysis
Specific Gravity Test
Hydrometer Analysis
Combined Mechanical Analysis
Moisture Content Testing
Liquid and Plastic Limits
Compaction Test
Density Determination
California Bearing Ratio Test
Plate Bearing Test
Unconfined Compression Test
Technical Soils Report
Chapter 3. Bituminous Mixtures
Description of Bituminous Materials
Sampling Materials
Field Identification
Tests on Bitumens
Tests on Aggregate and Fillers
Bituminous Mix Design
Plant Control
Chapter 4. Concrete
Characteristics and Behavior
Aggregate Testing
Identification of Cements
Proportioning of Mixes
Flexural Strength Test (Modulus of Rupture)
Compressive Strength Test
Chapter 5. Soil Stabilization
Mechanics of Stabilization
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'All five volumes provide vital information for consultants and contractors to size up the prospects of finding work in the region and carry out feasibility studies. Within each volume, a chapter is devoted to each country, giving main economic and construction indicators, cost data on labour and materials, unit rates for 60 construction work items, approximate estimating rates for a range of building types, and addresses of useful contacts.' Building
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This unique publication is the only detailed, multinational guide to the cost of the construction work across Africa. Countries covered are Algeria, Cameroon, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa and Zambia.
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Spon's Construction Resource Handbook is the first book to present critical information about materials, labour and plant constants required for the estimating process under one cover. It covers all areas of the construction industry and will provide all those involved in the preparation of tenders, cost estimates and first-stage estimates with the information they need to work with greater confidence and prepare more accurate estimates and tenders. With a unique style of presentation, it includes thousands of item descriptions and a comprehensive collection of data, including labour and plant outputs, materials, elemental breakdowns and lists of relevant organizations.
Up-to-date and comprehensive, Spon's Construction Resource Handbook will be an indispensable reference for estimators, quantity surveyors, engineers and architects working in local government and professional practices, government agencies, and contractors in all fields of construction. It will provide an invaluable reference base for negotiation of new rates where variations occur on a contract.
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