How it Happens at the Building Site

How it Happens at the Building Site
Author: Jenna Anderson
Publisher: The Oliver Press
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2019-06-12
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1545744459

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: This twelve-book series from Clara House, a division of The Oliver Press, offers young readers a ticket for a private tour of some of America’s most exciting places—where people and machines work together to produce the items and services we use every day. Detailed, full-color photographs and clear, engaging text guide children step by step through fascinating processes. From how one company cooks up delicious candy bars to how the post office delivers a letter to its destination, How It Happens books give readers a behind-the-scenes look at the creativity and labor that shape the world around them.

Site Matters

Site Matters
Author: Andrea Kahn
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 391
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0429514433

In the era of the Anthropocene, site matters are more pressing than ever. Building on the concepts, theories, and multi-disciplinary approaches raised in the first edition, this publication strives to address the changes that have taken place over the last 15 years with new material to complement and re-position the initial volume. Reaching across design disciplines, this highly illustrated anthology assembles essays from architects, landscape architects, urban designers, planners, historians, and artists to explore ways to physically and conceptually engage site. Thoughtful discourse and empirically grounded pieces combine to provide the language and theory to contextualize the meanings of site in the built environment. The increasingly complex hybridity of constructed environments today demands new tools for thinking about and working with site. Drawing contributions from outside and within the traditional design disciplines, this edition will trace important developments in site thinking with new essays on topics such as climate change, landscape as infrastructure, shifts from global to planetary urbanization debates, and the proliferation of participatory site transformation practices. Edited by two leading practitioners and academics, Site Matters juxtaposes timeless contributions from individuals including Elizabeth Meyer, Robert Beauregard, and Robin Dripps with original new writings from Peter Marcuse, Jane Wolff, Neil Brenner, and Thaisa Way, amongst others, to recontextualize and reignite the debate around site. An ideal text for students, academics, and researchers interested in site and design theory.

Construction Management JumpStart

Construction Management JumpStart
Author: Barbara J. Jackson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 351
Release: 2004-10-25
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 0782143369

Launch Your Construction Management Career—Quickly and Effectively Written by an experienced construction management specialist, Construction Management JumpStart provides all the core information you need, whether you're considering a new career or expanding your responsibilities: Understanding the functions of construction management Understanding the design and construction process Working with contracts documents Estimating project costs Administering contracts Managing the job site Creating and maintaining a project schedule Measuring project performance Controlling quality Ensuring project safety

Sustainability & Scarcity

Sustainability & Scarcity
Author: Peter Ozolins
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2014-08-13
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1317643712

Sustainability & Scarcity addresses a gap in the literature on green building recognized by many in the fields of international development, architecture, construction, housing and sustainability. Rather than being based on the experiences of more economically-developed countries, this book describes the nature of green building in the developing world, elaborating the main issues that define sustainability in those particular contexts. Through more than 30 years of development work in design and construction in Africa and the Middle East, the author has seen well-intentioned development projects, both in theory and in practice, that ultimately do not contribute to sustainable development. Starting from the basis of green building rating tools used in the more economically-developed countries, the author draws from his own experiences to make available to other practitioners green building strategies relevant to the developing country context that promise effective solutions to their need for sustainable green design. The book looks in detail at examples of buildings in Tanzania, Madagascar, Nepal, Haiti, and Vietnam, illustrating the application of the green building strategies described. Fully illustrated with drawings and full colour photos, the book is a practical guide for practitioners and policy-makers working in the poorest regions of the world. Sustainability & Scarcity is quite simply an essential handbook for anyone concerned with sustainable design and building in the developing world.

Building Regulations in Brief

Building Regulations in Brief
Author: Ray Tricker
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 1101
Release: 2022-05-30
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1000572285

This tenth edition of the most popular and trusted guide reflects all the latest amendments to the Building Regulations, planning permission and the Approved Documents in England and Wales. This includes coverage of the recent changes to use classes, updated sections on planning permission, permitted development and application fees. We have included the revisions to Approved Document B (as a result of the Hackitt Review), as well as the latest changes to Approved Documents F and L, and the new documents O (overheating) and S (electric vehicle charging points), which come into effect in June 2022. Giving practical information throughout on how to work with (and within) the Regulations, this book enables compliance in the simplest and most cost-effective manner possible. The no-nonsense approach of Building Regulations in Brief cuts through any confusion and explains the meaning of the Regulations. Consequently, it has become a favourite for anyone working in or studying the building industry, as well as those planning to have work carried out on their home. It is essential reading for all building contractors and subcontractors, site engineers, building engineers, building control officers, building surveyors, architects, construction site managers and DIYers.

A Busy Day at the Building Site

A Busy Day at the Building Site
Author: Philippe Dupasquier
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1996
Genre: Building sites
ISBN: 9781564025920

In a day at the construction site of a skyscraper, the various machines and workers do their jobs.

Parliamentary Papers

Parliamentary Papers
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
Publisher:
Total Pages: 940
Release: 1908
Genre: Great Britain
ISBN: