Structure Design and Degradation Mechanisms in Coastal Environments

General Introduction  Any type of construction must ensure, from its inception, certain safety conditions for its users. This primarily occurs due to the mechanical performance of the structure which must be designed to account for cost optimization. Therefore, man has, over time, built structural codes based on the advancement of knowledge in the mechanical behavior of component materials of structures. These codes were... Read More »

Graphic Standards Field Guide to Home Inspections

Introduction Welcome to Wiley’s Graphic Standards Field Guides!  We know that when you’re on a job site or in a meeting, questions come up.Even the most seasoned professionals may wish they could look up that one piece of information that is just outside their instant recall or just beyond their current experience. There is a real need to make immediate on-site decisions—to access... Read More »

Urban Rhythms: Mobilities, Space and Interaction in the Contemporary City

Chris Shilling (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); The publication of a Sociological Review Monograph on urban issues and processes is timely, both sociologically and politically. With the global recession of 2008 placing cities near the top of policy-making agendas, urban environments came to represent an ideal medium through which to explore the conjunction of ‘public issues’ and ‘private troubles’ that had exercised the... Read More »

Sustainable Construction 2

Foreword The Roman architect, Vitruvius, once defined the purposes of architecture as creating commodity, firmness, and delight—roughly translated as usefulness, stability, and beauty. To that list, we now must add a fourth purpose, harmony, by which I mean the fit between buildings and the built environment broadly with the ecologies of particular places. In contrast to architecture as utilitarian orasformmaking,placemakingposesuniquechallenges.Thefirstruleof place making is... Read More »

The Built Environment

Editors’ Notes and Acknowledgments he built environment is a challenging subject. It is pervasive and relevant to all who live in the human-made or arranged world—to all who live on this planet. A healthy built environment makes significant contributions to human life. It fulfills human needs and values; it extends and increases comfort, productivity, and enjoyment. A quality environment can foster a greater... Read More »

Sustainable Construction

Introduction and Overview  In the short quarter century after the first significant efforts to apply the sustainability paradigm to the built environment in the early 1990s, the resulting sustainable construction movement has gained significant strength and momentum. In some countries—for example, the United States—there is growing evidence that this responsible and ethical approach is dominating the market for commercial and institutional buildings, including... Read More »

MATERIALS FOR ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS

PREFACE Materials for Architects and Builders is written as an introductory text to inform students at undergraduate degree and national diploma level of the relevant visual and physical properties of a wide range of building materials.The third edition has been significantly enhanced by the incorporation of full colour images throughout, illustrating the materials and in many cases their use in buildings of architectural... Read More »

Architectural Knowledge

Preface To the social historian the record of the professions in the twentieth century has been one of continuous and indeed accelerating success. My own experience as president of the Royal Institute of British Architects for two years in the mid-1990s felt very different. From this particular perspective, whatever collective successes the architectural profession may or may not have achieved over the last... Read More »

Sustainable Construction Processes

This text follows the process of sustainable construction from an idea to the creation of a sustainable building. When a client or architect imagines a sustainable building, there are a myriad of systems, processes, guidelines, and standards that are negotiated in the journey from blueprint to completed building. Sustainable Construction Processes: A Resource Text provides a source guide along this journey, whilst also... Read More »

Super Tall Building Design Approach

Thornton Tomasetti Inc. is a Registered Provider with The American  Institute of Architects Continuing Education Systems.  Credit earned on  completion of this program will be reported to CES Records for AIA  members.  Certificates of Completion for non­AIA members are  available on request.  This program is registered with the AIA/CES for continuing professional  education.  As such, it does not include content that may be... Read More »