Concrete Reports & Submittals

Concrete Reports & Submittals
Author: Marllon Daniel Cook
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 82
Release: 2017-11-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 1387404644

Why Buy This Book? Because the content in this book may prevent you from wasting hours of your life and possibly thousands of dollars due to misunderstanding concrete reports and submittals. The concrete industry has a variety of concrete reports. If not careful, these reports can waste a significant amount of time, energy, and possibly money. This book provides clear, concise, and practical information about different concrete reports such as the core report, the cement mill certification report, and the petrographer's report.

Engineering Tilt-Up

Engineering Tilt-Up
Author: Timothy Wayne Mays
Publisher:
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2013
Genre: Precast concrete construction
ISBN: 9780967849966

Parking Structures

Parking Structures
Author: Anthony P. Chrest
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 686
Release: 2012-12-06
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 146849922X

Drawing on the combined expertise of three of the world's leading parking structure experts, this updated edition provides the only single-source guide to planning, designing, and maintaining parking structures. It provides readers with design solutions, including material on how to ensure long-term durability, design for easy maintenance, select the most energy efficient lighting system, decide on the number and placement of entrances and exits, and avoid the most common construction pitfalls. Reflecting recent advances in technological innovations, this volume features significantly revised mterial and contains five new chapters on the Americans with Disabilities Act, lighting, graphics, seismic design, and designing for maintenance. The Second Edition of Parking Structures offers architects, engineers, parking facility owners, and contractors a unique and comprehensive guide to designing safe and effective parking structures.In addition, institutions providing education courses for professional registration in related fields will benefit from this timely, authoritative account.

The CSI Sustainable Design and Construction Practice Guide

The CSI Sustainable Design and Construction Practice Guide
Author: Construction Specifications Institute
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2013-09-25
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1118416058

The CSI Sustainable Design and Construction Practice Guide is a compilation of information and recommended best practices for those who participate in the design and construction of commercial-level sustainable facilities. It offers guidelines and standards for applying sustainable design and construction principles in practical terms. This Practice Guide includes an overview of sustainable design standards and rating systems; an overview of green products and systems, and how to evaluate them; the lifecycle of a building; and the roles and responsibilities of members of the design and construction team.

Handbook of Construction Management

Handbook of Construction Management
Author: Abdul Razzak Rumane
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 752
Release: 2016-08-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1315356066

The book is developed to provide significant information and guidelines to construction and project management professionals (owners, designers, consultants, construction managers, project managers, supervisors, contractors, builders, developers, and many others from the construction-related industry) involved in construction projects (mainly civil construction projects, commercial-A/E projects) and construction-related industries. It covers the importance of construction management principles, procedures, concepts, methods, and tools, and their applications to various activities/components/subsystems of different phases of the life cycle of a construction project. These applications will improve the construction process in order to conveniently manage the project and make the project most qualitative, competitive, and economical. It also discuss the interaction and/or combination among some of the activities/elements of management functions, management processes, and their effective implementation and applications that are essential throughout the life cycle of project to conveniently manage the project. This handbook will: Focus on the construction management system to manage construction projects Include a number of figures and tables which will enhance reader comprehension Provide all related topics/areas of construction management Be of interest to all those involved in construction management and project management Provide information about Building Information Modeling (BIM), and ISO Certification in Construction Industry Offer a chapter on Lean construction The construction project life cycle phases and its activities/elements/subsystems are comprehensively developed and take into consideration Henri Fayol's Management Function concept which was subsequently modified by Koontz and O'Donnel and Management Processes Knowledge Areas described in PMBOK® published by Project Management Institute (PMI). The information available in the book will also prove valuable for academics/instructors to provide construction management/project management students with in-depth knowledge and guidelines followed in the construction projects and familiarize them with construction management practices.