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Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era (2023)
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Manu, P., Gao, S., Bartolo, P. J. S., Francis, V., & Sawhney, A. (Eds.). (2023). Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge). https://doi.org/10.1201/9781003213796

This Handbook seeks to examine and advance current understanding of the confluence of construction health, safety and well-being and the broad range of Industry 4.0 technologies in use in the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) industry.... Read More about Handbook of Construction Safety, Health and Well-being in the Industry 4.0 Era.

Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved (2023)
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Carless, T., Sarjeant, R., Benedict Brown, J., Hynam, M., & Roush, P. (2023). T. Carless (Ed.). Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved. London: msdm London

https://www.msdm.org.uk/wide-load This book is a photographic archive and written essays of a house move in Northern Sweden. It considers the historic, cultural, technical and material significance of house moving in the region, through a single his... Read More about Wide Load [Bred Last] A House Moved.

EURA Conversations May 2020 - May 2022 (2022)
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Hambleton, R., Jones, A., Long, L. A., & Vinci, I. (Eds.). (2022). EURA Conversations May 2020 - May 2022. Dortmund, Germany: European Urban Research Association

In May 2020 the European Urban Research Association (EURA) launched a series of ‘conversations’ on the EURA website. The purpose of this initiative was to create a new space where EURA members could discuss the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cit... Read More about EURA Conversations May 2020 - May 2022.

Mini Cooper 1961-2000 (2021)
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Barker, P. (2021). Mini Cooper 1961-2000. Stroud, Gloucestershire, England UK: Amberley Publishing

From its launch on 20 September 1961 the Mini Cooper caused a sensation. The world’s first sports saloon, the diminutive Cooper combined the glamour and racing heritage of 1959 and 1960 Formula 1 champions the Cooper Car Company with the outstanding... Read More about Mini Cooper 1961-2000.

Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions (2021)
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Bisello, A., Vettorato, D., Ludlow, D., & Baranzelli, C. (Eds.). (2021). Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions. Springer (part of Springer Nature). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-57764-3

This open access book offers a selection of research papers and case studies presented at the 3rd international conference “Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions”, held in December 2019 in Bolzano, Italy, and explores the concept of s... Read More about Smart and Sustainable Planning for Cities and Regions: Results of SSPCR 2019—Open Access Contributions.

Irúsan or, canting for architects (2020)
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Drofiak, N. (2020). Irúsan or, canting for architects. Zurich: gta Verlag / ETH Zurich

In 1931, architect Ivan Il’icˇ Leonidov was sent 2,800 kilometres northeast of Moscow to assist in constructing the new Soviet arctic port of Igarka. The city, though presented as an inscription of the future into the vast void of Siberia, in fact st... Read More about Irúsan or, canting for architects.

Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better (2020)
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Hambleton, R. (2020). Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better. Bristol, UK: Bristol University Press

The COVID-19 virus outbreak has rocked the world and it is widely accepted that there can be no return to the pre-pandemic society of 2019. However, many suggestions for the future of society and the planet are aimed at national governments, interna... Read More about Cities and Communities Beyond Covid-19. How Local Leadership Can Change Our Future for the Better.

Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society (2019)
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Meraz, F., Rice, L., & Jones, M. (2019). F. Meraz, L. Rice, & M. Jones (Eds.), Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society. Delaware, United States: Vernon Press

Rapid urbanization represents major threats and challenges to personal and public health. The World Health Organisation identifies the ‘urban health threat’ as three-fold: infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases; and violence and injury from,... Read More about Designing for Health & Wellbeing: Home, City, Society.

Gender and Religion in the City (2019)
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Greed, C. (2019). Gender and Religion in the City. London: Taylor & Francis (Routledge)

this book comprises a collection of 15 chapters by a range of contributors covering the main branches of Christianity, plus Islam, secularism and paganism, The book seeks to investigate how gender, urban space and religion interact in shaping urban s... Read More about Gender and Religion in the City.

Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers (2018)
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Treadaway, C., Fennell, J., Prytherch, D., Kenning, G., Prior, A., Walters, A., & Taylor, A. (2018). Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers. Cardiff Met Press

One of the major challenges facing the world today is how to care for the increasing numbers of older people in society and help them to live well, right until the end of their lives. The World Health Organisation and Alzheimer’s International have i... Read More about Compassionate Design: How to Design for Advanced Dementia – a toolkit for designers.

Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry (2018)
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Mahdjoubi, L. (2018). L. Mahdjoubi, C. A. Brebbia, & A. Galiano (Eds.), Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry. Southampton UK: WIT Press

The selected papers in this book deal with Building Information Modelling (BIM) in Design, Construction and Operations. Application of BIM throughout the construction industry is progressing at an accelerated rate, with the development of new softwar... Read More about Building Information Systems in the Construction Industry.

International Construction Measurement Standards: Global Consistency in Presenting Construction Costs (2017)
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See-Lian, O., Muse, A., O’Sullivan, G., Aronsohn, A., Fry, C., Baharuddin, D., …Smedley, S. (2017). International Construction Measurement Standards: Global Consistency in Presenting Construction Costs. London: International Construction Measurement Standards Coalition (ICMSC)

This publication presents an international cost classification system for infrastructure projects. It aims to provide global consistency in classifying, defining, measuring, analysing and presenting the cost of infrastructure projects.

Heritage Building Information Modelling (2017)
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Arayici, Y., Mahdjoubi, L., & Counsell, J. (2017). Heritage Building Information Modelling. Abingdon UK: Routledge

This book is about Heritage Building Information Modelling (HBIM). This is a term that has only begun to be used in the latter part of the last decade, since Building Information Modelling (BIM) superseded 3D digital modelling and computer aided desi... Read More about Heritage Building Information Modelling.

Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS (2016)
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Charlesworth, S. M., & Booth, C. A. (2016). Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS. https://www.wiley.com/en-gb

This book emphasises the SuDS philosophy and elaborates the sustainable surface water management agenda with a wealth of insights that are brought together through the experts who have contributed. By integrating physical and environmental sciences,... Read More about Sustainable surface water management: A handbook for SuDS.

Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 (2016)
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Manu, P., Westcott, T., & Spedding, A. (2016). A. Spedding, T. Westcott, & P. Manu (Eds.), Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016. Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy

This is the proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016 jointly organised with Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS), Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors (NIQS) and Nigerian Institution of... Read More about Proceedings of the Commonwealth Association of Surveying and Land Economy (CASLE) Conference 2016.