Backlist Collections from Built Environment
Following our recent acquisitions, including titles acquired from Elsevier, we wanted to bring you a catalogue that highlighted the full product offering within your area of interest, in order for you to complete your personal/library collections.
Browse our catalogue today and you’ll find an extensive list of books across all our publishing disciplines, with books aimed at students and the professional markets. Our publishing highlights across these disciplines include:
• Architecture
• Civil Engineering
• Construction
• Major Works
• Planning and Landscape
• SPON Price Books
Our new virtual catalogue functionality allows you to create a bespoke booklist for titles of interest that can be downloaded into an Excel document. This is an ideal way to highlight books of interest to your colleagues and library departments.
We look forward to hearing from you!
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Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions
Series: Architectural Engineering and Design Management
Integrated Design and Delivery Solutions (IDDS) represent a significant new research trajectory in the integration of architecture and construction through the rapid adoption of new processes. This book examines the ways in which collaboration and new methods of contracting and procurement enhance...
Published December 6th 2010 by Routledge
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Architect's Illustrated Pocket Dictionary
This pocket-sized dictionary offers huge coverage for the 40,000 plus people studying or working in architecture, construction or any of the built environment fields. From Abaciscus to Zophorus, the reader is able to quickly track down precisely the term they are looking for. It is...
Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Towards Creative Learning Spaces
Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education
This book offers new ways of investigating relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place. It suggests that we need to understand more about the distinctiveness of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education, and what it is that matters about the design of its spaces....
Published November 18th 2010 by Routledge
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Environmental and Architectural Acoustics
2nd Edition
Adopting a multi-disciplinary approach to the practice of achieving a more acceptable acoustic environment, this book draws on the same basic principles to cover both the outdoors and indoor space. It starts with the fundamentals of sound waves and hearing and goes on to the measurement of noise...
Published December 13th 2010 by CRC Press
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Time-Dependent Behaviour of Concrete Structures
Serviceability failures of concrete structures involving excessive cracking or deflection are relatively common, even in structures that comply with code requirements. This is often as a result of a failure to adequately account for the time-dependent deformations of concrete in the design of the...
Published September 14th 2010 by CRC Press
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Earthquake Engineering for Structural Design
Developments in Earthquake Engineering have focussed on the capacity and response of structures. They often overlook the importance of seismological knowledge to earthquake-proofing of design. It is not enough only to understand the anatomy of the structure, you must also appreciate the nature of...
Published August 3rd 2010 by CRC Press
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Concrete-filled Tubular Members and Connections
Using steel and concrete together utilizes the beneficial material properties of both elements. Concrete filled steel tubes represent a good example of a concrete – steel composite structure, and are particularly useful as columns in high rise buildings and bridge piers. They can be used in a range...
Published July 26th 2010 by CRC Press
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Mining and its Impact on the Environment
Winner of the 2007 E.B. Burwell, Jr. Award of the Geological Society of America Mining activity has left a legacy of hazards to the environment, such as waste, unstable ground and contamination, which can be problematic when redeveloping land. This book highlights the effects of past mining and...
Published April 19th 2006 by CRC Press
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Heat Islands
Understanding and Mitigating Heat in Urban Areas
Heat islands are urban and suburban areas that are significantly warmer than their surroundings. Traditional, highly absorptive construction materials and a lack of effective landscaping are their main causes. Heat island problems, in terms of increased energy consumption, reduced air quality and...
Published December 20th 2010 by Routledge
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Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings
Integrated Sustainable Design of Buildings aims to provide a guide to members of design and masterplanning teams on how to deliver sustainable development and buildings cost effectively, meeting current and emerging UK and international statutory and planning requirements. Using a series of case...
Published December 14th 2010 by Routledge
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Islam
From Medina to the Magreb and from the Indes to Istanbul
Series: Architecture in Context
This book examines the architectural tradition which developed with the religious culture of Islam. Essentially heir to the Roman development of space, it had its source in the ubiquitous courtyard house, while the development of the mosque as both place of worship and the centre of the community,...
Published March 31st 2008 by Routledge
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Implementing Sustainability
The New Zealand Experience
Series: RTPI Library Series
New Zealand’s Resource Management Act (RMA) was hailed as a radical new approach to planning that would both achieve better environmental outcomes and benefit developers by working rapidly and more efficiently. This book examines the lessons that can be learned by planning practitioners...
Published December 13th 2010 by Routledge
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Land and Limits
Interpreting Sustainability in the Planning Process, 2nd Edition
Series: RTPI Library Series
The first edition of this seminal book was written at a time of rapidly growing interest in the potential for land use planning to deliver sustainable development, and explored the connections between the two and implications for public policy. In the decade since the book was first conceived,...
Published December 12th 2010 by Routledge
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Women and Housing
An International Analysis
Series: Housing and Society Series
In the context of contemporary economic, political, social and cultural transformations, this book brings together contributions from developed and emerging societies in Europe, the USA and East Asia in order to highlight the nature, extent and impact of these changes on the housing opportunities...
Published November 30th 2010 by Routledge
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Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
Volume 4
Series: Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning, Volume 4 is a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning....
Published November 25th 2010 by Routledge
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Spon's Asia-Pacific Construction Costs Handbook, Fourth Edition
Series: Spon's International Price Books
Spon's Asia Pacific Construction Costs Handbook includes construction cost data for twenty countries. This new edition has been extended to include Pakistan and Cambodia. Australia, UK and America are also included, to facilitate comparison with construction costs elsewhere. Information is...
Published April 27th 2010 by CRC Press
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Spon's First Stage Estimating Handbook, Third Edition
Series: Spon's Estimating Costs Guides
Have you ever had to provide accurate costs for a new supermarket or a pub "just an idea...a ballpark figure..." ? The earlier a pricing decision has to be made, the more difficult it is to estimate the cost and the more likely the design and the specs are to change. And yet a rough-and-ready...
Published January 26th 2010 by Spon Press
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Spon's House Improvement Price Book, Fourth Edition
Series: Spon's Price Books
Especially written for contractors and small businesses carrying out small works, Spon's House Improvement Price Guide contains accurate information on thousands of rates, each broken down to labour, material overheads and profit....
Published August 31st 2009 by Spon Press
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Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Minor Works, Alterations and Repairs to Fire, Flood, Gale and Theft Damage
Unit Rates and Project Costs, Fourth Edition
Series: Spon's Estimating Costs Guides
All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable. Do you work on jobs between £50 and £50,000? Then this book is for you. Specially written for contractors, quantity surveyors and clients carrying out small works, this book contains accurate information on...
Published August 13th 2008 by Spon Press