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Crossrail Project: Infrastructure Design and Construction - 6 volume set
Author(s): Crossrail
Publication date: 23 May 2022
ISBN: 9780727766601
Stock level: Low stock
£374.50
Across 6 volumes, Crossrail Project: Infrastructure Design and Construction contains a collection of papers submitted to Crossrail’s Technical Papers Competition. Contributions have come from consultants, contractors, suppliers and third-party stakeholders all of whom have been involved in the Crossrail project. The papers cover a variety of discip
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UK Specification for Ground Investigation, Third edition
Author(s): Association of Geotechnical and Geoenvironmental Specialists (AGS).
Publication date: 05 May 2022
ISBN: 9780727765239
Stock level: In stock
£75.00
Ground investigation is an essential part of assessing the ground risk and obtaining geotechnical and geoenvironmental information for design and risk to human health. UK Specification for Ground Investigation provides best practice guidance for designing and executing good-quality site investigation to help reduce increases in time and costs, to c
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Crossrail Project: Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 6
Author(s): Crossrail, Professor Rhys Vaughan Williams and Simon Bennett.
Publication date: 05 May 2022
ISBN: 9780727766502
Stock level: In stock
£80.00
Crossrail Project: Infrastructure Design and Construction (Volume 6) contains a collection of 22 papers submitted to the 2021 Crossrail’s Technical Papers Competition. Contributions have come from members of the Crossrail organisation, its consultants as well as contractors involved in design and construction across the Crossrail project. The paper
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ICE Handbook of Geosynthetic Engineering: Geosynthetics and their applications, Third edition
Author(s): Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Publication date: 07 October 2021
ISBN: 9780727765000
Stock level: In stock
£156.00
Now fully updated in this third edition, ICE Handbook of Geosynthetic Engineering offers a comprehensive overview of geosynthetics and their various applications. Global challenges, including climate change, are impacting how researchers and engineers provide sustainable solutions to field problems using geosynthetics, geometrical and material vari
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Humanitarian Civil Engineering: Practical solutions for an interdisciplinary approach
Author(s): Georgia Kremmyda
Publication date: 04 August 2021
ISBN: 9780727764683
Stock level: In stock
£41.25
Humanitarian Civil Engineering demonstrates the pivotal role of civil engineering in tackling global humanitarian challenges. It identifies what a humanitarian engineer does and offers practices that are tangible to ensure safe engineering. It combines concepts and tools traditionally used by practitioners and development agencies with civil engine
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Civil Engineering Special Issue: Underground Construction
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 08 May 2020
ISBN: 9780727765413
Stock level: In stock
£39.00
This Civil Engineering special issue is on underground construction. It explores some of the latest developments and innovations that are transforming underground construction across the world. The wide-ranging papers cover various ways in which underground spaces can meet society's future needs, and the innovations in underground construction tech
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Environmental Geotechnics in Practice: Introduction and case studies
Author(s): Robert W. Sarsby
Publication date: 06 September 2019
ISBN: 9780727763631
Stock level: In stock
£77.50
Environmental Geotechnics in Practice is an informative and practical guide to the study of land-based waste disposal. The book identifies the key elements of a variety of waste disposal systems, and explains their role in protecting the environment. Using the most significant case histories from across the world where key lessons have been learned
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Seismic Design of Foundations: Concepts and applications
Author(s): Subhamoy Bhattacharya, Rolando P. Orense and Domenico Lombardi
Publication date: 06 February 2019
ISBN: 9780727761668
Stock level: In stock
£94.00
With easy-to-understand explanations of the basic concepts, Seismic Design of Foundations examines recent and worldwide research outputs and post-earthquake reconnaissance case studies, and offers practical means of applying them to the real world. Each case study also provides worked examples of new and innovative findings that reveal background i
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Engineering in Chalk: Proceedings of the Chalk 2018 Conference
Author(s): British Geotechnical Association (BGA)
Publication date: 31 August 2018
ISBN: 9780727764072
Stock level: Low stock
£114.50
This volume contains the proceedings of a major two-day international conference on Engineering in Chalk, organised by the British Geotechnical Association (BGA), with support from the Engineering Group of the Geological Society (EGGS). Bringing together the knowledge and experience gained in the last three decades the papers in this collection pre
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Underground Spaces Unveiled: Planning and creating the cities of the future
Author(s): Han Admiraal and Antonia Cornaro
Publication date: 28 February 2018
ISBN: 9780727761453
Stock level: Low stock
£80.50
Award-winning title on the benefits, challenges and possibilities of urban underground spaces. The book gives a broad overview of the concept of underground space development investigating the issues that are associated with the sustainable development of urban underground space.
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Tunnelling in the Urban Environment (Géotechnique Symposium in Print 2017)
Author(s): Edited by Lidija Zdravkovic
Publication date: 24 January 2018
ISBN: 9780727763778
Stock level: In stock
£69.00
With urban tunnel construction growing worldwide, the ability to accurately predict the ground and structural response to tunnelling and the associated risks is now more important than ever before. Engineers are expected to consider all aspects of tunnel engineering in order to safeguard existing infrastructure, by employing field monitoring, physi
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Polymer Support Fluids in Civil Engineering
Author(s): Carlos Lam and Stephan Jefferis
Publication date: 24 November 2017
ISBN: 9780727757869
Stock level: In stock
£142.50
Polymer Support Fluids in Civil Engineering provides a detailed study of the use of polymer support fluids in civil engineering, covering all major aspects including fundamental material properties, laboratory and site testing, as well as case histories and specifications. This book includes all the information necessary to optimise the use of poly
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Disturbed Soil Properties and Geotechnical Design, Second Edition
Author(s): Andrew Schofield and Stuart Haigh
Publication date: 22 November 2017
ISBN: 9780727761552
Stock level: In stock
£89.25
Read ICE President Professor Lord Robert Mair's foreword to the second edition of Disturbed Soil Properties
Disturbed Soil Properties and Geotechnical Design, Second edition describes the developments leading to the Original Cam Clay model, focusing on fundamentals of the shearing of soil. The first edition explained and illustrated fallacies in
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Civil Excavations and Tunnelling: A Practical Guide, Second Edition
Author(s): Ratan Tatiya
Publication date: 27 July 2017
ISBN: 9780727761538
Stock level: In stock
£77.50
Civil Excavations and Tunnelling is a comprehensive guide to civil excavations at surface and subsurface levels, with or without the aid of explosives. It features descriptions of the latest methods, techniques, equipment, trends and practices, as well as guidance on safety and the environment.
Civil Excavations and Tunnelling, Second edition:
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Civil Engineering Special Issue: Hong Kong
Author(s): Editor: Simon Fullalove
Publication date: 01 November 2016
ISBN: 9780727762047
Stock level: Low stock
£40.50
This Civil Engineering special issue showcases the recent innovative work in Hong Kong and how the technical problems presented by a densely populated modern city can be overcome by the ingenuity of civil engineers. As can be seen from the eight papers, the challenges vary significantly, but ultimately they come down to how civil engineers can meet
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Contaminated Land Guidance, Third edition
Author(s): Jo Strange, Nick Langdon and Alex Large
Publication date: 24 October 2016
ISBN: 9780727761064
Stock level: In stock
£50.25
Contaminated Land Guidance provides authoritative guidance and up to date information to on the challenges associated with contamination on brownfield developments.
This fully updated edition summarises the key elements of current regulations and good practice as published in existing authoritative guidance documents prepared by key organisation
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Geotechnical Finite Element Analysis
Author(s): Andrew Lees
Publication date: 11 October 2016
ISBN: 9780727760876
Stock level: In stock
£88.25
Geotechnical Finite Element Analysis provides the latest practical guidance and comprehensive explanations of applying finite element analysis (FEA) in geotechnical design – from planning and analysis, determining how the FEA relates to the design process and explaining the decisions that need to be made at each stage through to validation of resul
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Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering Geotechnique Symposium in Print
Author(s): Stuart Haigh (ed.)
Publication date: 16 November 2015
ISBN: 9780727761491
Stock level: In stock
£78.75
The many large earthquakes of the last decade, including the series in Christchurch in 2010-2011 and the Tohoku earthquake in Japan, have focused even greater attention on the cyclic behaviour of soils during these events. Great advances have recently been made on all aspects of soil dynamics, from the prediction of liquefaction based on site inves
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Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development: XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Author(s): MG Winter, DM Smith, PJL Eldred and DG Toll
Publication date: 11 September 2015
ISBN: 9780727760678
Stock level: Low stock
£379.00
These volumes contain the proceedings of the XVI European Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering (ECSMGE), Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development. Geotechnical Engineering for Infrastructure and Development covers a wide range of topics which are of direct relevance to all who work within the broad field of g
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Crossrail Project: Infrastructure Design and Construction - Volume 2
Author(s): Mike Black, Christian Dodge and Jessica Yu (eds.)
Publication date: 07 September 2015
ISBN: 9780727761026
Stock level: In stock
£97.50
The construction of the Crossrail project began at North Dock in Canary Wharf in May 2009. Six years on, it is the biggest railway construction project in Europe and is one of the largest single infrastructure investments undertaken in the UK. It consists of 21 km of new twin-bore tunnels under central London and 10 new world-class stations constru
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