Download or read book Enhancing Building Performance written by Shauna Mallory-Hill and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Performance Evaluation (BPE) informs and enhances the usability and sustainability of building designs with lessons learned from evaluation of building performance throughout the building life cycle, from initial planning through occupancy to adaptive re-use. A key feature of BPE is that it examines design and technical performance of buildings alongside human performance criteria. That is, it seeks to examine facilities in order to determine whether they will work for the people that will use and occupy them. Rigorous BPE helps to improve design practice by providing feedback on the effectiveness of the choices made about the building to ensure that its design is optimised for stakeholders’ uses. The overarching theme for Enhancing Building Performance is to present the next generation of BPE work. The book provides an updated systematic approach for BPE as well as chapters written by experts from around the world who demonstrate how to apply BPE to enhance building design. Topics covered include: evidence-based and integrative design processes, evaluation methods and tools, and education and knowledge transfer. In addition, case studies provide specific examples of how BPE has been used to study such things as the impact of workplace design on human productivity and innovation. Written primarily for design professionals and facility managers who wish to use BPE to deliver improved building performance that is responsive to the needs of stakeholders, Enhancing Building Performance will also be of great value to researchers and students across a range of architecture and construction disciplines.

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Download or read book Learning from Vernacular written by Pierre Frey and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1964, Bernard Rudofsky curated the exhibition Architecture Without Architects at The Museum of Modern Art in New York, thereby drawing the attention of the postwar Western public to traditional architectures, rescuing them from the ignominy to which they had been consigned by the 'national' ideologies of Europe in the 1930s. In the early 1980s, Ivan Illich published a number of radical critiques of modernity in which he drew attention to 'vernacular' values, proposing a trenchant but hospitable definition of this term. It derives from Roman law, in which everything produced within the household for consumption within the household and not for sale or exchange is vernacular. In order to locate this proposition within the field of architectural criticism, this book borrows with ironic intent part of the title of Robert Venturi's celebrated work, Learning from Las Vegas (1977), which launched the fashion for post-modernism in architecture. Taking advantage of a collection of maquettes of vernacular architecture (the only one of its kind in the world), whose special attributes he highlights and whose value he underlines, the author selects contemporary realisations by architects from Africa, Asia, America and Europe that seem to him to constitute a 'new vernacular architecture'. The emphasis here is on materials available on the fringes of the market, on the safeguarding and development of traditional know-how, on the social role of the architect and on the teaching of architecture.

Download or read book Rural Studio written by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-02 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using salvaged lumber and bricks, discarded tires, hay and waste cardboard bales, concrete rubble, colored bottles, and old license plates, they create inexpensive buildings in a style Mockbee describes as "contemporary modernism grounded in Southern culture."".

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Download or read book Res Rusticae Country Matters written by Marcus Terentius Varro and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-10 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC) wrote this work when he was 73 years old. He was a very learned man and had a wide knowledge in many different dfisciplines. He was also a revered Roman political figure. This work, Res Rusticae, is voluminous. He wrote it for his wife, Fundania. It is about the management of large slave-run estates.

Download or read book Corrosi n en las estructuras de hormig n armado written by José A. González Fernández and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actualmente la fabricación de estructuras de hormigón supera a la del resto de materiales de construcción considerados conjuntamente. Este hecho unido a la importancia técnica, económica y social del sector de la construcción explica que el deterioro de las estructuras de hormigón armado se haya constituido en el reto principal de la ingeniería civil en el mundo desarrollado. Los autores de este libro, basándose en su experiencia de más de tres decenios, pretenden despertar en los estudiantes, técnicos e investigadores la inquietud por el análisis de las causas que provocan la corrosión y la descripción de los métodos de prevención, protección, rehabilitación y reparación más eficaces.

Download or read book Proceed and Be Bold written by Andrea Oppenheimer Dean and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2005-02-11 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, Samuel Mockbee launched the Rural Studio to create homes and community buildings for the poor while offering hands-on architecture training for coming generations. This new book explains the changes the studio has undergone since his death.176 pp.

Download or read book An lisis de las patolog as en las estructuras de Hormig n Armado written by Hugo Donini and published by Nobuko. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "El presente libro es un modesto aporte en la comprensión de los fenómenos patológicos que agreden al hormigón armado y a las estructuras que con este material se construyen. Los primeros capítulos permiten introducir al lector en los conceptos generales del hormigón armado como material y sus características. En los siguientes capítulos se efectúa un análisis de los procesos físicos, mecánicos, químicos y biológicos que afectan la durabilidad del hormigón armado. La profundidad del desarrollo de los procesos procura ahondar en aquellos que no siempre son tratados con detalle y no en los que se poseen amplio desarrollo en la bibliografía disponible. Existe un apartado especial para las estructuras con requerimientos de estanqueidad, en el que se detallan algunas medidas para incrementar el control de la fisuración y su durabilidad. Al respecto, la fisuración, el control de las deformaciones y la acción del fuego tienen un tratamiento particular en los Capítulos 8, 9, 10 y 11. En el Capítulo 12 se mencionan algunos de los principales procesos patológicos ocurridos en las fundaciones. En el Capítulo 15, se hace hincapié en las medidas de protección, refuerzo y reparación, al desarrollar conceptos como el recrecido de vigas y columnas, refuerzos con perfiles de acero o materiales como el CFRP. En el Capítulo 16 se incluye un apartado referido al uso de micropilotes inyectados para el recalce de fundaciones. Finalmente, en el Anexo I se desarrollan conceptos básicos sobre la elaboración y uso de hormigón autocompactante que tiene un ámbito de aplicación importante, entre otros, en el recrecido y refuerzo de las estructuras de hormigón armado. Se ha procurado amenizar la lectura del texto y plasmar los conceptos con soluciones numéricas, superando las 350 figuras y los 36 ejemplos de aplicación. No obstante, y a pesar de hacer mención a procesos patológicos, el texto procura ser precautorio, es decir, desarrolla contenidos para prevenir la ocurrencia de fallas y mecanismos que puedan agredir al hormigón."

Download or read book Corrosion of Reinforcing Steel in Concrete written by D. E. Tonini and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1980 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Corrosion of Reinforcement in Concrete EFC 25 written by J. Mietz and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-08-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book compiles the full papers presented in the successful session "Corrosion of Steel in Concrete" at EUROCORR '97. It highlights the areas of technical development in this field, including monitoring of steel reinforcement corrosion, prevention of corrosion and electrochemical repair methods.

Download or read book Durabilidad del concreto reforzado written by José Gabriel Goméz Cortés and published by Universidad Nacional de Colombia. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Durabilidad del concreto reforzado es un libro de divulgación académica que presenta los temas esenciales sobre el comportamiento del concreto simple y reforzado ante la acción física y química de diferentes agentes externos. Adicionalmente, este libro recoge los resultados de investigaciones realizadas por el autor y sus experiencias en el área de la patología de estructuras en dicho material. En la actualidad, la permanencia de las construcciones es un aspecto determinante de la seguridad estructural, por esta razón se invita a considerar la durabilidad "por convicción mas que por coacción" en el diseño de las estructuras de concreto reforzado. La obra describe las propiedades físicas y químicas del concreto, haciendo énfasis en su permeabilidad. También presenta los diferentes agentes químicos que pueden atacarlo, como los sulfatos y los ácidos. Una parte importante del libro está dedicada a la reactividad del álcali en las partículas de agregado y a los procesos de carbonatación en el concreto. De igual manera, en su contenido se aborda el comportamiento de la piel del concreto normal y las particularidades en la durabilidad de los concretos de alto desempeño. Se cierra esta obra con la descripción del fenómeno de corrosión de las barras de acero de refuerzo.

Download or read book Corrosion of Steel in Concrete written by John P. Broomfield and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Corrosion of Steel in Concrete: Understanding, Investigation and Repair is a guide for designing, constructing and maintaining reinforced concrete structures, such as buildings and bridges which are subject to reinforcement corrosion. It presents the basics of theory and practice in steel corrosion in concrete and reviews the latest research and developments, such as progress on measuring the corrosion threshold for chloride-induced corrosion. This third edition compares the currently proliferating major national and international standards and guidance documents. New developments are considered, such as hybrid anodes for electrochemical treatment and the latest research and developments in assessment, such as the use of ground penetrating radar to measure the chloride content of the concrete cover. It overhauls coverage of electrochemical repair and rehabilitation techniques and outlines recent innovations in structural repair and construction and investigates their implications for durability. The book is ideal for practitioners and graduate students in structural engineering and concrete technology.

Download or read book Corrosion Forms and Control for Infrastructure written by Victor Chaker and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1992 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-five papers originally presented at the ASTM symposium held in San Diego, Calif., November 1991, provide innovative, successful techniques for the practicing engineer, scientist, and others involved with corrosion control for infrastructure. Practical experiences and applications as well as n

Download or read book Corrosion of Reinforcement in Concrete written by M Raupach and published by Woodhead Publishing. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the widespread use of reinforced concrete in infrastructure, understanding the corrosion of this material is of major importance. As a result there has been a wealth of research into catalysts, inhibitors and effective means of monitoring the rate of corrosion. Corrosion of reinforcement in concrete: mechanisms, monitoring, inhibitors and rehabilitation techniques summarises some of the most significant research and its implications.The book begins by reviewing findings from various experiments designed to test the corrosion rate of metals induced by a range of factors. Later chapters discuss techniques for monitoring and testing for corrosion. The book concludes by assessing important methods of prevention, including corrosion inhibitors, protective coatings and electrochemical methods for protection, together with rehabilitation procedures for susceptible structures.Filled with practical examples and written by a distinguished team of international contributors, Corrosion of reinforcement in concrete: mechanisms, monitoring, inhibitors and rehabilitation techniques is an essential reference for civil engineers using reinforced concrete. - Summarises research into catalysts, inhibitors and effective means of monitoring the rate of corrosion - Concludes by assessing important methods of prevention

Download or read book Corrosion of Steel in Concrete written by Luca Bertolini and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Steel-reinforced concrete is used ubiquitously as a building material due to its unique combination of the high compressive strength of concrete and the high tensile strength of steel. Therefore, reinforced concrete is an ideal composite material that is used for a wide range of applications in structural engineering such as buildings, bridges, tunnels, harbor quays, foundations, tanks and pipes. To ensure durability of these structures, however, measures must be taken to prevent, diagnose and, if necessary, repair damage to the material especially due to corrosion of the steel reinforcement. The book examines the different aspects of corrosion of steel in concrete, starting from basic and essential mechanisms of the phenomenon, moving up to practical consequences for designers, contractors and owners both for new and existing reinforced and prestressed concrete structures. It covers general aspects of corrosion and protection of reinforcement, forms of attack in the presence of carbonation and chlorides, problems of hydrogen embrittlement as well as techniques of diagnosis, monitoring and repair. This second edition updates the contents with recent findings on the different topics considered and bibliographic references, with particular attention to recent European standards. This book is a self-contained treatment for civil and construction engineers, material scientists, advanced students and architects concerned with the design and maintenance of reinforced concrete structures. Readers will benefit from the knowledge, tools, and methods needed to understand corrosion in reinforced concrete and how to prevent it or keep it within acceptable limits.

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