An illustrated textbook designed to meet the needs of students studying for NVQ levels 2 and 3 in carpentry and joinery. Each chapter covers a specific activity such as constructing stairs or windows, and includes the selection of produced components, the setting out, marking out, assembly and fixing.

This book will provide urban and landscape designers, and other development related professions, with metrics, rules-of-thumb, and other necessary design guidance to integrate renewable energy technologies and decentralized utility infrastructure into master-planned developments. The urban planning profession is founded on designing for the future and should include safeguarding access to energy and resources. This book will be an indispensible professional tool and will enable designers to embed sustainability and resiliency within their plans for the built environment. Highly illustrated and accessible, the book will create a methodology based on the tools within an urban planner s professional repertoire."

Product Description: In The Structure of Design, Leslie Earl Robertson recounts a storied career in engineering which has generated among the most innovative and formally daring buildings of the modern era, as well as his extensive collaborations with several titans of the practice: Minoru Yamasaki, Philip Johnson, Max Abramovitz, Romaldo Giurgola, I...read more

Product Description: Conservation geotechnics is about protecting above ground structures during subsurface engineering activities such as excavations, tunnels, dewatering, and blasting. Successful protection may require the strengthening of existing subsurface structures, as well as the buildings themselves...read more

Product Description: Contemporary practice of Heritage Preservation is currently regulated by a plethora of charters, decrees, conventions and recommendations, aiming to guide all aspects of heritage protection and management. However, despite all this specific technical and practical guidance, there has been far less emphasis on developing conceptual and theoretical tools which would enable a comprehensive consideration of heritage values...read more