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Brunel: pocket GIANTS: The Engineering Visionary
In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Churchill. It's often claimed that that through his ships, bridges,...
Guide to Urban Engineering: Infrastructure and Technology in the
If we are to understand the modern landscape it is vital to recognise its manmade features. Guide to Urban Engineering provides non-specialist readers with an introduction to the technology that...
Will Alsop: The Noise
Focusing on the refreshing process of design with which Will Alsop engages, Tom Porter reveals and traces the process, from public consultation to the privacy of Alsop's painting studio, from...
A Language of Contemporary Architecture: An Index of Topology and
As a way to understand the contemporary project in architecture, this book provides an index of ideas, theories, projects, and definitions that string into a methodology for evaluating the contemporary...
Research Methods in Construction
Providing guidance on research methods for construction students, this book is divided into three sections: producing a proposal, executing the research and reporting the results.
Man of Iron: Thomas Telford and the Building of Britain
Thomas Telford's name is familiar; his story less so. Born in 1757 in the Scottish Borders, his father died in his infancy, plunging the family into poverty. Telford's life soared...
Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature
Explores the many ways in which the earth has been transformed by human effort throughout history. This book highlights the formal and functional characteristics of earthworks, and explores how people...
Voyaging the World's Civil Engineering Wonders
In this stunningly illustrated, detailed and deliberately entertaining book, John Laverick gives an insight into the exciting world of civil engineering, via fourteen individual case studies. Examples of enduring feats...