There is a long tradition of using wood as a distinct and ecologically sound building material. Wooden architecture conveys for today’s world the...
The environmental aspects involved in the production and use of cement, concrete and other building materials are of growing importance. CO2 emissions...
This book presents the proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Waste Materials in Construction, held in June 1997. The papers presented...
Waste Materials in Construction contains papers from the first international conference on the environmental implications of construction with waste...
As founder of the Bauhaus school, Walter Gropius (1883–1969) is one of the icons of 20the century architecture. While his early buildings in Pomerania...
The response of concrete under tensile loading is crucial for most applications because concrete is much weaker in tension than in compression...
What time is it? Why should we care? This book critically investigates our contemporary time crisis. The transformation of society from an agrarian to...
Transport Properties of Concrete: Modelling the Durability of Structures, Second Edition, covers how to measure transport properties and use the...
Transport Properties of Concrete covers how to measure the ability of ions and fluids to move through concrete material, and how to use the results to...
From long-standing worries regarding the use of lead and asbestos to recent research into carcinogenic issues related to the use of plastics in...