Building Research Board & Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems 
Improving the Design Quality of Federal Buildings [PDF ebook] 

An understanding of architects’ character traits can offer important insights into how they design buildings. These traits include leadership skills necessary to coordinate a team, honest and ethical …

With an expected population of 400 million by 2040, America is morphing into an economic system composed of twenty-three ”megapolitan” areas that will dominate the nation’s economy by midcentury. T …

This book is unique in its attempt to explore the many ways we have of thinking about buildings. In particular it raises questions about the kinds of knowledge we have and will need in designing, mak …

Countryside Recreation outlines the principles of recreation site development and management in the countryside. It explains the process of management, the legal framework and the opportunities and f …

Innovations in Transportable Healthcare Architecture is the first book to examine the ways that healthcare architecture can provide better assistance in disaster-stricken communities. Aimed at archit …

Buildings with load-bearing earth walls were once widespread throughout Britain and many thousands still survive, including some dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Earth is the ultim …

This is the only impact fee book you”ll need for the next decade or longer! This comprehensive reference book updates the popular, pioneering works on impact fees by introducing new methodologies, c …

Health and Safety is part of a brand new series providing must-read practical guidance to running efficient and successful projects using the new RIBA Plan of Work 2013. Each guide takes a core proje …

First published in 1984. This work is designed to provide for those who often face having to set up engineering contracts a comprehensive text-book and source of ready reference, by the aid of which …

Considers each stage in the course of an arbitration in detail, from the claimant”s decision to seek the means of resolving a dispute to the arbitrator”s award, explaining clearly and concisely wha …