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Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avoidance

This book gives practical guidance on the prevention of failure by describing the nature and cause of the most common defects in buildings, and then shows how they should be avoided in design and construction.

By W. H. Ransom

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Hardcover:

9780419142607 | 2 sub edition (Spon Pr, February 1, 1988), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This book gives practical guidance on the prevention of failure by describing the nature and cause of the most common defects in buildings, and then shows how they should be avoided in design and construction.

Paperback:

9780419142706 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 1, 1988), cover price $47.95 | About this edition: In recent years building failures and the resulting lawsuits and awards for damages have frequently been in the news.

Miscellaneous:

9780203473016 | 2 edition (Spon Pr, November 1, 2002), cover price $47.99

Defects and Deterioration in Buildings

Product Description: A professional reference designed to assist surveyors, engineers, architects and contractors in diagnosing existing problems and avoiding them in new buildings. Fully revised and updated, this edition, in new clearer format, covers developments in building defects, and problems such as sick building syndrome...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Barry A. Richardson

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Hardcover:

9780419252108 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 1, 2001), cover price $200.00 | About this edition: A professional reference designed to assist surveyors, engineers, architects and contractors in diagnosing existing problems and avoiding them in new buildings.

9780419149200 | Chapman & Hall, January 1, 1991, cover price $84.95 | About this edition: There are many types of defects and deterioration which can occur in buildings.

Uses of Risk Analysis to Achieve Balanced Safety in Building Design and Operations

By Andrew C. Lemer (editor) and Bruce D. McDowell

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Paperback:

9780309046800 | Natl Academy Pr, March 1, 1992, cover price $19.00

Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail

An examination of the failure of some architectural designs presents more than two hundred illustrations and takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa.

By Matthys Levy, Mario Salvadori and Kevin Woest (illustrator)

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9780393033564 | W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1994, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: Takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Paperback:

9780393311525 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, June 1, 1994), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Takes readers on a journey through the history of architectural and structural disasters, from the Parthenon to the Tower of Pisa to the Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Construction Failure

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By Kenneth L. Carper and Jacob Feld

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Hardcover:

9780471574774 | 2 sub edition (Wiley-Interscience, December 26, 1996), cover price $199.00

The Technology of Building Defects

Product Description: The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation. General educational objectives are set out which offer the reader the opportunity of self-assessment...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Geoff Cook and John Hinks

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9780419197805 | Routledge, May 1, 1997, cover price $65.95 | About this edition: The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject.

Structural Collapse and User Operations

Product Description: Book by National Fire Service Incident Management System

By National Fire Service Incident Management System

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Paperback:

9780879391584 | Intl Fire Service Training Assn, November 1, 1998, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Book by National Fire Service Incident Management System

Collapse: When Buildings Fall Down

Examines first-hand accounts, architectual designs, causes, and follow-up investigations by forensic engineers into such structual collapses as the Hyatt Regency, Point Pleasant Bridge, and Vaiont Dam.

By Phillip Wearne

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Hardcover:

9781575001449 | TV Books Inc, June 1, 2000, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines first-hand accounts, architectual designs, causes, and follow-up investigations by forensic engineers into such structual collapses as the Hyatt Regency, Point Pleasant Bridge, and Vaiont Dam.

Building Pathology: Deterioration, Diagnostics, and Intervention

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By Samuel Y. Harris

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Hardcover:

9780471331728 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, March 1, 2001, cover price $160.00

Roofing Failures

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By Carl G. Cash

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Hardcover:

9780415299251 | Routledge, November 1, 2003, cover price $145.00

Commercial Structures

By Carson Dunlop & Associates

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Paperback:

9780793180929 | Real Estate Education Co, June 2, 2003, cover price $12.15

Falling Glass: Problems and Solutions in Contemporary Architecture

Product Description: Problems in construction have existed for as long as architecture itself has enclosed our spaces, and the types of defects and their causes are as varied as the architecture itself. Particularly in glass structures there have been some catastrophic problems in recent years...read more

By Patrick Loughran

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9783764367121 | Birkhauser, July 1, 2003, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Problems in construction have existed for as long as architecture itself has enclosed our spaces, and the types of defects and their causes are as varied as the architecture itself.

Falling Glass: Glasschaden Und Losungen in Der Neueren Architektur

By Patrick Loughran

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9783764367138 | Birkhauser, August 1, 2003, cover price $80.00

Technical Rescue for Structural Collapse

By Tom Connell (editor), Jeff Fortney (editor) and Lynne Murnane (editor)

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Paperback:

9780879392253 | Ill edition (Intl Fire Service Training Assn, December 31, 2003), cover price $35.00

Structural Appraisal of Traditional Buildings

Product Description: Structural appraisal is important to professionals concerned with the repair, maintenance or refurbishment of traditional buildings. It involves recognizing and establishing the cause of any structural damage and, if the damage is still active predicting its course...read more

By Patrick Robson

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Hardcover:

9781873394687 | Routledge, February 6, 2013, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Structural appraisal is important to professionals concerned with the repair, maintenance or refurbishment of traditional buildings.

9780566090813 | Gower Pub Co, December 1, 1990, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: This book promotes efficient structural appraisal which depends on identifying the causes of damage.

Failed Stone: Problems And Solutions With Concrete And Masonry

By Patrick Loughran

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Paperback:

9783764373290 | Birkhauser Architecture, December 1, 2006, cover price $76.95

Understanding Building Failures

By James Douglas and Bill Ransom

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Hardcover:

9780415508780 | 4th edition (Spon Pr, May 23, 2013), cover price $180.00

9780415370820 | 3 edition (Routledge, June 22, 2007), cover price $170.00

Paperback:

9780415508797 | 4th edition (Spon Pr, May 22, 2013), cover price $59.95

Miscellaneous:

9780203030141 | 3 edition (Spon Pr, May 18, 2007), cover price $55.00

Understanding Building Failures

By James Douglas

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Paperback:

9780415370837 | 3 edition (Routledge, June 22, 2007), cover price $57.95

Subsidence Damage to Domestic Buildings: A Guide to Good Technical Practice (Fb 13)

Product Description: First published in 2007. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

By Richard Driscoll

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9781860819773 | Taylor & Francis, November 4, 2010, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: First published in 2007.

Collapse Operations for First Responders

Product Description: Collapse Operations for First Responders discusses in detail the common warning signs of structural collapse and what to do when they are encountered, providing a practical, hands-on approach to operating safely and effectively in collapse rescue situations...read more

By John O'Connell

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Hardcover:

9781593702632 | Pennwell Corp, November 28, 2011, cover price $69.00 | About this edition: Collapse Operations for First Responders discusses in detail the common warning signs of structural collapse and what to do when they are encountered, providing a practical, hands-on approach to operating safely and effectively in collapse rescue situations.

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