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Strategic Risk: A Guide for Directors
Author(s): Actuarial Profession and Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 05 May 2006
ISBN: 9780727734679
£76.00
"Reading this report will make company directors think hard - and few will decide to ignore its cogent and direct advice"- Dr Martin Barnes, Executive Director, The Major Projects Association and President, The Association for Project Management The success of enterprises can often be attributed to their successful management of strategic risk. Con
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Designer's Guide to EN 1998-1 and 1998-5. Eurocode 8: Design Provisions for Earthquake Resistant Structures
Author(s): Professor Michael N Fardis, Dr. Eduardo Carvalho, Professor Amr Alnashai, Professor Ezio Faccioli and Professor Paolo Pinto, Professor Andre Plumier
Publication date: 28 September 2005
ISBN: 9780727733481
£128.50
This series of Designers Guides to the Eurocodes provides comprehensive guidance in the form of design aids, indications for the most convenient design procedures and worked examples. The books also include background information to aid the designer in understanding the reasoning behind and the objectives of the codes. All of the individual guides
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Designers' Guide to EN 1997-1 Eurocode 7: Geotechnical Design - General Rules
Author(s): R Frank, C Bauduin, R Driscoll, M Kavvadas, N Krebs Ovesen, T Orr and B Schuppener
Publication date: 22 November 2004
ISBN: 9780727731548
£86.00
Designers’ Guide to EN 1997-1 presents a detailed guide to the new Geotechnical Design Eurocode. As such it gives an invaluable insight into a code that, for the first time, provides a comprehensive design philosophy that is not only applicable to all forms of geotechnical problems but also shares a common philosophy with the design methodology fo
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A Guide to the Procurement of Privately Financed Projects: An Indicative Assessment of the Procurement Process
Author(s): Douglas Lamb and Tony Merna
Publication date: 27 September 2004
ISBN: 9780727732736
£57.00
A guide to the procurement of privately financed projects: an indicative assessment of the procurement process outlines the concept of privately financed projects (PFP) that can be used for both public-private and private-private interactions. Utilising models from many countries the guide develops a robust procurement system applicable to PFP and
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Piers, Jetties and Related Structures Exposed to Waves - Guidelines for Hydraulic Loading
Author(s): Kirsty McConnell, William Allsop and Ian Cruickshank
Publication date: 06 August 2004
ISBN: 9780727732651
£81.00
Jetties, piers and other marine structures constructed in exposed locations require careful assessment of their hydraulic loads. Increasingly trade economics are leading to larger ship sizes and existing and new port locations for these vessels require longer jetties in significantly deeper water. In these instances construction of protective break
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Handbook of Project Management Procedures
Author(s): Albert Hamilton
Publication date: 01 March 2004
ISBN: 9780727732583
£109.25
The definitive guide presents a comprehensive set of step-by-step best practice procedures for managing any type of project from concept to completion. This is the book that everyone involved in projects has been waiting for, but until now has not been available. It is not academic. It is not of a general nature. This is the first, definitive, prac
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Guide to Bridge Hydraulics, Second edition
Author(s): Transportation Association of Canada
Publication date: 01 March 2004
ISBN: 9780727732620
£81.00
Floods and erosion continue to be the significant causes of bridge damage and failures worldwide.
They are also a key consideration in bridge design construction and maintenance. Growing concern over the security of bridges against the action of water has led to extensive re-evaluation of existing foundations. This new edition of the Guide to Brid
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Deep Excavations: A practical manual, 2nd edition
Author(s): M. Puller
Publication date: 01 September 2003
ISBN: 9780727734594
£154.25
This book assembles the practical rules and details for the efficient and economical execution of deep excavations. It draws together a wealth of experience of both design and construction from published work and the lifetime practice of the author.
This second edition is extensively revised to include changes in design emphasis including those du
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Manual of Numerical Methods in Concrete: Modelling and Applications Validated by Experimental and Site-Monitoring Data
Author(s): M Y H Bangash, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 27 July 2001
ISBN: 9780727729460
£244.75
The modelling of constitutive equations to represent the isotropic and anisotropic behaviour of concrete in structures remains one of the most difficult tasks in structural engineering. At present, analyses on concrete structures are carried out for elastic, plastic and cracking conditions under static and dynamic and blast loads. The behaviour of
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FRP composites: Life Extension and Strengthening of Metallic Structures: ICE Design and Practice Guide
Author(s): Edited by S S J Moy
Publication date: 01 July 2001
ISBN: 9780727730091
£31.00
Fibre reinforced polymer composites have been used for many years in the aircraft and shipbuilding industries. They are now being used in a variety of construction applications where their light weight, high strength, stiffness, durability, and ease of installation makes them cost-effective. This is particularly the case in the repair and rehabilit
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Wind Loading: A Practical Guide to BS 6399-2
Author(s): Nicholas Cook, Wind Engineering Consultant
Publication date: 22 October 1999
ISBN: 9780727727558
£81.00
All buildings in the UK must now adhere to the recently published wind code BS 6399-2. The introduction of a new code is often traumatic, especially so in this case,as the previous code has been in place for 25 years.
The author's considerable practical knowledge of wind engineering, together with his involvement in drafting this standard and hi
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River and Channel Revetments: A Design Manual
Author(s): Manuela Escarameia, HR Wallingford
Publication date: 01 April 1998
ISBN: 9780727726919
£88.25
This comprehensive manual provides extensive information on the types of revetment available and provides guidance on the choice and design of these systems. With regard to natural and artificial watercourses information is included on revetments that incorporate some form of structural protection and revetments which combine this protection with v
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Highway Maintenance Handbook, 2nd Edition
Author(s): Edited by Ken Atkinson, Consulting Engineer
Publication date: 10 April 1997
ISBN: 9780727725318
£140.25
In recent years, highway maintenance has become a high profile topic, owning to the greater travel potential of the general public and to the impact of roadworks on commerce following the swing away from rail transport. Highway maintenance was once a low-key activity, but it is now being treated as an important consideration in the overall cost of
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Dredging: ICE design and practice guide
Author(s): Institution of Civil Engineers
Publication date: 06 October 1995
ISBN: 9780727720498
£38.25
Dredging is not only vital to maintain navigation, and therefore to international commerce, but also pays an important role in offshore engineering, the obtaining of aggregates for the construction industry, and in coastal defence works.This guide highlights the particular problems of excavating from underwater sites and describes the methods and e
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