Product Description: Connect Management® is McGraw-Hill’s web-based assignment and assessment platform that connects you and your students to the coursework. Connect allows instructors to assign auto-graded chapter-end Illustration Capsule Mini Cases and selected cases, thereby enabling you to easily assess the learning that has occurred...read more

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This book explains how architects obtain and administer work from the moment the contract is signed, to the handing over of the finished building to the client and is an indispensible guide to all architecture students.This second edition has been thoroughly updated and expanded. It now includes significant additions to the section on design constraints, a new section on quality assurance and management and information on new acts and regulations introduced since the publication of the first edition. Other sections on subjects such as the Building Regulations, use of computers and standard forms and letters have been brought up to date.

Product Description: Whether or not they go on to practice as draughtspersons, an ability to interpret plans and drawings is essential to all "construction technicians", and it is through drawing that the necessary appreciation is usually developed. This text represents a foundation for anyone embarking on a construction-related course...read more

Ten-year-old Justin finds it a pain to live in a computer-controlled house, especially when the system starts malfunctioning, until several big events change his mind.