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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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Low stock
£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
Stock level: Out of stock
£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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