Noise Control in Building Services

Noise Control in Building Services
Author: A. Fry
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2013-10-22
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1483286533

Encompasses all up-to-date aspects of noise and vibration control in building services in one simple and convenient volume. It provides the necessary background in acoustics and, more importantly, practical advice in the evaluation and control of noise and vibration, with extensive use of tables, illustrations and actual examples. The book's contributors, the senior engineering staff of SRL Ltd, have more than 150 years' collective experience in acoustics, involving design and remedial work on noise and vibration aspects of building services.

Environmental Noise Control

Environmental Noise Control
Author: Naveen Garg
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 519
Release: 2022-03-31
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 3030878287

This book provides a concise and up-to-date overview of environmental noise control issues, utilizing specific case studies from India to help explore noise mapping and monitoring, impact analysis, and policy, among other relevant topics. The book provides an extensive review of recent studies, including references, and describes the latest noise monitoring structures. It also addresses heretofore under-emphasized topics, including but not limited to acoustic metrology, Multi Attribute Decision Making (MADM) techniques, and sound insulation utilizing passive control strategies.

Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls

Specification for Piling and Embedded Retaining Walls
Author: Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 246
Release: 1996
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780727725660

The ICE Specifications for Piling, published in 1988 provided a standard document for the range of different piling construction techniques commonly used in the UK. Here, this specification includes significant changes, and covers embedded retaining walls.

Construction Law Handbook

Construction Law Handbook
Author:
Publisher: Thomas Telford
Total Pages: 904
Release: 2000
Genre: Law
ISBN: 9780727728838

- The planning system - Financing the project - Public sector projects - Public/private sector partnerships - Tender process - The construction contract - Construction insurance - Ways of operating - Working with others - Working internationally - The engineer's appointment - Collateral warranties - Professional indemnity insurance - Copyright and intellectual property - Employment law - Computers and IT - Law of contract - Law of tort - Environmental law - Health and safety law - Insolvency in construction - Administration of claims - Litigation - Arbitration - Adjudication

Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health

Clay's Handbook of Environmental Health
Author: Stephen Battersby
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 977
Release: 2004-05-27
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1134368593

This classic, definitive reference work for all those involved in environmental health is now available in its 19th edition. Significant changes include those made to chapters on food safety and hygiene, environmental protection, the organisation and management of environmental health in the UK, port health, and waste management. New chapters have been added on health development, an introduction to health and housing, contaminated land, and environmental health in emergency planning, as well as a new glossary of abbreviations and acronyms. New material on training and standards, IT, practical risk assessment, and investigatory powers is also included. Each chapter reflects the wider background against which the subjects must be studied and the new concepts and approaches that have emerged over the past few years.

New Horizons in Piling

New Horizons in Piling
Author: Malcolm D. Bolton
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 171
Release: 2021-01-23
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1000297624

The piling industry has, in recent years, developed a variety of press-in piling technologies with a view to mitigate noise & vibration nuisance. This book focuses on the "Walk-on-Pile" type press-in piling system, which offers an alternative engineering solution for piling works. This type of piling has unique features, including the application of the compact piling machine using pre-installed piles as a source of reaction force to jack in a new pile by hydraulic pressure. Moreover, the machine can walk along the top of piles already installed, thus enabling piling in a limited space and headroom with minimum disruption to social functions and services of existing infrastructure. These features are opening up a new horizon in piling, leading to novel application of embedded walls previously considered impossible. This introductory book provides a historical development of press-in piling and various challenging applications worldwide as well as scientific research outcomes, forming a valuable source of reference for readers who are unfamiliar with press-in piling, including project owners, design engineers, practical engineers as well as researchers and students.

Tunnelling Contracts and Site Investigation

Tunnelling Contracts and Site Investigation
Author: Dr P.B. Attewell
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 398
Release: 1995-08-31
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0419191402

A wide ranging and up-to-date review of experience of tunnelling contracts, particularly those for sewerage and drainage tunnels. The review is based on the 6th edition of the ICE Conditions of Contract, but it takes note of new forms of contract which are leading towards less adversarial contractual relations.^

Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration

Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration
Author: Frank Fahy
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 656
Release: 2018-09-03
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1482289083

Advanced Applications in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration provides comprehensive and up-to-date overviews of knowledge, applications and research activities in a range of topics that are of current interest in the practice of engineering acoustics and vibration technology. The thirteen chapters are grouped into four parts: signal processing, acoustic modelling, environmental and industrial acoustics, and vibration. Following on from its companion volume Fundamentals of Noise and Vibration this book is based partly on material covered in a selection of elective modules in the second semester of the Masters programme in 'Sound and Vibration Studies' of the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton, UK and partly on material presented in the annual ISVR short course 'Advanced Course in Acoustics, Noise and Vibration'.

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions
Author: Francesco Silvestri
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 7743
Release: 2019-07-19
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0429632010

Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions contains invited, keynote and theme lectures and regular papers presented at the 7th International Conference on Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering (Rome, Italy, 17-20 June 2019. The contributions deal with recent developments and advancements as well as case histories, field monitoring, experimental characterization, physical and analytical modelling, and applications related to the variety of environmental phenomena induced by earthquakes in soils and their effects on engineered systems interacting with them. The book is divided in the sections below: Invited papers Keynote papers Theme lectures Special Session on Large Scale Testing Special Session on Liquefact Projects Special Session on Lessons learned from recent earthquakes Special Session on the Central Italy earthquake Regular papers Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering for Protection and Development of Environment and Constructions provides a significant up-to-date collection of recent experiences and developments, and aims at engineers, geologists and seismologists, consultants, public and private contractors, local national and international authorities, and to all those involved in research and practice related to Earthquake Geotechnical Engineering.