Author: Committee on New TechnologyInnovation in Building
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: building, technology, studies, management, series, public, innovation, fostering, new, role, agencies
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0309047838
ISBN-13: 9780309047838

This book explores innovation in the U.S. construction-related industries (i.e., design services, construction, building materials and products manufacture, and facilities operation and maintenance) and recommends a strategy for fostering new technology. These industries account for about ten percent of the U.S. economy; federal agencies themselves spend some $15 billion annually on construction. A government strategy based on federal agencies that encourage applications of new technology for their own projects, activities to enhance the pursuit and effective transfer of new technology to the

Author: Committee on Budget Estimating TechniquesBuilding
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: construction, projects, federal, estimates, accuracy, cost, improving
Number of Pages: 54
Published: 1990-01-01
List price: $10.00
ISBN-10: 0309062330
ISBN-13: 9780309062336

Author: Chartered Institute of Building
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: construction, development, management, project, practice, code
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2010-01-19
List price: $84.99
ISBN-10: 1405194200
ISBN-13: 9781405194204

First published in 1992 and written by the Chartered Institute of Building with representatives of other leading construction organisations, the Code of Practice for Project Management provides an authoritative guide to the principles and practice of construction project management and outlines the roles and responsibilities of all members of the professional construction team. Effective project management involves the assessment and management of risk, and this is a strong theme throughout the Code.

Author: The Chartered Institute of Building
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: practice, estimating, code
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2009-07-27
List price: $94.99
ISBN-10: 1405129719
ISBN-13: 9781405129718

This code of practice, long established as a leading publication for the construction industry, provides an authoritative guide to essential principles and good practice in estimating for building work. The seventh edition includes new material on estimating strategy, tendering, procedures and best practice, as well as the build-up of unit rates of cost, overheads and profit, and e-commerce.

Author: National Building Publications
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: plans, floor, designs, house, distinctive
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2003-02-14
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 048642331X
ISBN-13: 9780486423319

An annual publication intended as a reference work for contractors, suppliers, architects, and homeowners, the 1929 Home Builders Catalog offered a beautifully illustrated look at a variety of homes. Painstakingly reproduced from a rare edition, this volume offers old-house restorers, preservationists, and lovers of 1920s architecture an authentic view of American homes of the era.

Author: Netherlands) International Conference on Building
Publisher: Ios Pr Inc
Keywords: knowledge, amp, sharing, building, bases, large, towards
Number of Pages: 314
Published: 1995-01-01
List price: $120.00
ISBN-10: 9051992173
ISBN-13: 9789051992175

In the early days of artificial intelligence it was widely believed that powerful computers would, in the future, enable mankind to solve many real-world problems through the use of very general inference procedures and very little domain-specific knowledge. With the benefit of hindsight, this view can now be called quite naive. The field of expert systems, which developed during the early 1970s, embraced the paradigm that "Knowledge is Power" - even very fast computers require very large amounts of very specific knowledge to solve non-trivial problems. Thus, the field of large knowledge bases

Author: International Council for Building Research Studi
Publisher: Spon Press
Keywords: development, organizations, information, research, directory, building, international
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1986-08-28
List price: $350.00
ISBN-10: 0419129901
ISBN-13: 9780419129905

This international directory provides detailed information on over 600 research insitutes, governemtn organizations, universities and provate companies in 52 countries around the world.