Download or read book Bulldozer written by Francesca Russello Ammon and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the decades following World War II stand out as an era of rapid growth and construction in the United States, those years were equally significant for large-scale destruction. In order to clear space for new suburban tract housing, an ambitious system of interstate highways, and extensive urban renewal development, wrecking companies demolished buildings while earthmoving contractors leveled land at an unprecedented pace and scale. In this pioneering history, Francesca Russello Ammon explores how postwar America came to equate this destruction with progress. The bulldozer functioned as both the means and the metaphor for this work. As the machine transformed from a wartime weapon into an instrument of postwar planning, it helped realize a landscape-altering “culture of clearance.” In the hands of the military, planners, politicians, engineers, construction workers, and even children’s book authors, the bulldozer became an American icon. Yet social and environmental injustices emerged as clearance projects continued unabated. This awareness spurred environmental, preservationist, and citizen participation efforts that have helped to slow, though not entirely stop, the momentum of the postwar bulldozer.
Download or read book Environmental Handbook for Building and Civil Engineering Projects written by Roger Venables and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 1994 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook contains information and practical guidance on the environmental issues likely to be encountered at each stage in the tendering and construction phases of a builidng or civil engineering project. It is aimed at informing construciton managers, clients, designers and other consultants, engineers and scientists on their obligations and the opportunities open to them to improve the industrys environmental performance.
Download or read book CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual written by Stuart D. Summerhayes and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-09-26 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CDM REGULATIONS CDM REGULATIONS 2015 PROCEDURES MANUAL The Construction (Design and Management) Regulations (CDM Regulations) initially came into force on 31 March 1995 to promote an integrated, holistic approach to the consideration of health and safety issues associated with all aspects of construction projects. The Regulations were updated in 2007, with the current version coming into force on 6 April 2015. The Regulations require all those involved in construction to adopt a team-based approach to health and safety, to be delivered through dutyholder responsibilities via project team risk management, accountability and effective, timely communication. The CDM Regulations 2015 Procedures Manual articulates and explains the statutory duties, and provides a documentation system to ensure associated compliance. It has been thoroughly revised to take account of the amendments to the CDM Regulations brought about by the 2015 update, which requires both subtle and significant changes in the management of health and safety within the construction industry.
Download or read book Methods of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment written by Riki Therivel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-13 with total page 733 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) is an important and often obligatory part of proposing or launching any development project. Delivering a successful ESIA needs not only an understanding of the theory but also a detailed knowledge of the methods for carrying out the processes required. Riki Therivel and Graham Wood bring together the latest advice on best practice from experienced practitioners to ensure an ESIA is carried out effectively and efficiently. This new edition: • explains how an ESIA works and how it should be carried out • demonstrates the links between socio-economic, cultural, environmental and ecological systems and assessments • incorporates the World Bank’s IFC performance standards, and best practice examples from developing as well as developed countries • includes new chapters on emerging ESIA topics such as climate change, ecosystem services, cultural impacts, resource efficiency, land acquisition and involuntary resettlement. Invaluable to undergraduate and MSc students of ESIA on planning, ecology, geography and environment courses, this internationally oriented fourth edition of Methods of Environmental and Social Impact Assessment is also of great use to planners, ESIA practitioners and professionals seeking to update their skills.
Download or read book Labor Compliance Manual Direct Federal and Federal aid Construction written by Public Roads Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Principles of Basic Construction Economics in the 21st Century written by Clinton Ohis Aigbavboa and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2024-09-16 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Principles of Basic Construction Economics in the 21st Century unravels and takes account of the widening and more sophisticated cost management and control services required by the discerning client in today’s construction industry.
Download or read book Disaster Planning Structural Assessment Demolition and Recycling written by E.K. Lauritzen and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains general recommendations for site clearing after man-made and natural disasters. It provides guidelines on the demolition of damaged structures and the reuse of demolition and construction materials. It has been prepared by an international task force originating from cooperation between RILEM and UNESCO.
Download or read book Urban Land written by Dieter D. Genske and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Urban land is an environmental key topic considering the increasing urbani sation of our world. The amounting pressure on resources especially in the urban environment demand awareness across technical and political sectors and solid concepts for workable solutions. This book will address those people, who are key in coping with the challenges of sustainable urban land use management: Professionals in the growing field of urban land recycling and graduate students from different disciplines including urban planning, environmental sciences and geotechnics. Processes that lead to urban land degradation include the extraction of resources, their transformation into goods, the production of waste and conflicts in the allocation of land. Industrial soil pollution, soil sealing and urban sprawl pose serious challenges to resource management in urban environments. The possible implications are not necessarily restricted to the urban area but do have feedback into the countryside. The reduction of arable land in urban peripheries often causes enhanced pressure on back-country natural ecosystems such as forests, grass- and wetlands. Urban land recycling especially in the developing world is to be seen in the context of poverty alleviation and sustainable development. Ifwe don't get a proper sustainable use of urban land, as well as of water and other natural resources that relate to them, sustainable development will not be reached.
Download or read book Project Finance for Construction written by Anthony Higham and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-12-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world of construction is intrinsically linked with that of finance, from the procurement and tendering stage of projects right through to valuation of buildings. In addition to this, things like administrations, liquidations, mergers, take-overs, buy-outs and floatations affect construction firms as they do all other companies. This book is a rare explanation of common construction management activities from a financial point of view. While the practical side of the industry is illustrated here with case studies, the authors also take the time to build up an understanding of balance sheets and P&L accounts before explaining how common tasks like estimating or valuation work from this perspective. Readers of this book will not only learn how to carry out the tasks of a construction cost manager, quantity surveyor or estimator, they will also understand the financial logic behind them, and the motivations that drive senior management. This is an essential book for students of quantity surveying or construction management, and all ambitious practitioners.
Download or read book Spon s External Works and Landscape Price written by Davis Langdon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-27 with total page 601 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 30th edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2011 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. All the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts are covered, forming an indispensable reference book for quantity surveyors, landscape architects, contractors and local authority managers – essential for compiling estimates, specifications, bills of quantities and works schedules – and no matter what the size of the project being undertaken. This edition includes new Major Works items: Priced Preliminary section A as NBC layout Brick and block piers Green screen Pleached trees Deadman tree anchoring Platipus tree watering systems Electrical infrastructure Street Furniture: Anti skate board devices, Recycled bollards, Cigarette bins, Plastic recycled outdoor seats, Cycle shelters, Smoking shelters, and Monolith sign boards and Minor Works items: Preliminary costs for small gardens Bespoke steel edging Terravent ground decompaction Brick and Block Piers Aco linear drainage products for minor works Electrical infrastructure Low voltage electrical lighting Green walls And lots of new approximate estimate items throughout major and minor works All the standard features that you expect from SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK remain: material and measured work prices covering contract items from preliminaries and site clearance and encompassing every external works activity with full breakdowns into labour, materials and other components detailed guidance on wage rates, landscape consultants’ fee scales extensive Approximate Estimates section for rapid spot estimating Updated, free of charge, two or three times a year – see inside for registration details. Updates are available online at www.pricebooks.co.uk. ? Buyers of this 2011 edition can make a free internet download of SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE price data, which will run to the end of 2011 and: produce estimate and tender documents generate priced or unpriced schedules access Spon’s Approximate Estimates rate data, as well as the Measured Works data adjust rates and data and enter rogue items export schedules into Excel carry out an index search. This year, for the first time, the resources include a versatile and powerful ebook.
Download or read book NRM1 Cost Management Handbook written by David P Benge and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-13 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive guide to measurement and estimating using NRM1, written by the author of NRM1 The 'RICS New rules of measurement: Order of cost estimating and cost planning of capital building works' (referred to as NRM1) is the cornerstone of good cost management of capital building works projects - enabling more effective and accurate cost advice to be given to clients and other project team members, while facilitating better cost control. The NRM1 Cost Management Handbook is the essential guide to how to successfully interpret and apply these rules, including explanations of how to: quantify building works and prepare order of cost estimates and cost plans use the rules as a toolkit for risk management and procurement analyse actual costs for the purpose of collecting benchmark data and preparing cost analyses capture historical cost data for future order of cost estimates and elemental cost plans employ the rules to aid communication manage the complete 'cost management cycle' use the elemental breakdown and cost structures, together with the coding system developed for NRM1, to effectively integrate cost management with Building Information Modelling (BIM). In the NRM1 Cost Management Handbook, David Benge explains in clear terms how NRM1 is meant to be used in familiar quantity surveying tasks, as well as a range of activities of crucial importance for professionals in years to come. Worked examples, flow charts, diagrams, templates and check lists ensure readers of all levels will become confident and competent in the use of NRM1. This book is essential reading for anyone working with NRM1, and is the most authoritative guide to practice available for those preparing to join the industry.
Download or read book The Reclamation of Former Coal Mines and Steelworks written by I.G. Richards and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 1993-10-11 with total page 751 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the result of studies undertaken on behalf of the European Commission, examines the current 'state of the art' techniques for the restoration of despoiled lands arising from the coal and steel industries. It provides technical guidance to aid the process of the regeneration of the coal and steel communities of Europe. The chapters are fully cross referenced in the text, and where more technical or specific detail is provided, this has been placed into boxes rather than in the main text.The book will be of great interest to environmental scientists and engineers, and to all those who are involved in mining, mineral waste, soil pollution and waste management and disposal.
Download or read book Spon s External Works and Landscape Price Book 2013 written by Davis Langdon and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-09-26 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This year's special focus is on water related issues.Now in its 32nd edition, SPON'S EXTERNAL WORKS AND LANDSCAPE PRICE BOOK 2013 offers the only comprehensive source of information for detailed external works and landscape costs. It covers all the items to be found in hard and soft landscape contracts, and forms an indispensable reference book for
Download or read book Spon s Railways Construction Price Book written by Franklin + Andrews and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-06-27 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over £6 billion is scheduled for investment in the UK's railway infrastructure over the next few years, with £1.2 billion committed to enhancement projects, £1.3 billion to infrastructure maintenance and £1.2 billion on track renewals. Significant investment is also planned in signalling, telecommunications, electrification, stations and depot buildings. Bidding for, winning and completing this work requires an accurate knowledge of the costs, work and resources involved. Spon's Railways Construction Price Book provides that knowledge. Any company looking to participate in the regeneration of the UK's railway network, will find the guidance provided here an essential strategic asset. Compiled from years of specialist experience, this book provides an understanding of the key drivers and components that affect the cost of railway projects. The first edition rapidly became essential reading for designers, engineers, surveyors, project managers, contractors and all those involved in the railway industry. This improved and extended second edition is destined to take its place.
Download or read book Knowledge Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems written by Rossitza Setchi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-09 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four-volume set LNAI 6276--6279 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, KES 2010, held in Cardiff, UK, in September 2010. The 272 revised papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 360 submissions. They present the results of high-quality research on a broad range of intelligent systems topics.
Download or read book Urban Renewal Manual written by United States. Urban Renewal Administration and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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