Authors:Building Intelligence Group, Chuck Ehrlich,
Publisher: Hands-on-Guide
Keywords: building, design, construction, management, integrated, smart, dictionary, terminology, intelligent
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2007-08-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0979640830
ISBN-13: 9780979640834
The Intelligent Building Dictionary provides clear concise definitions for the specialized terms and acronyms encountered in sophisticated buildings and high technology construction projects. It is designed for use by all stakeholders in advanced real estate including owners, developers, and tenants.
Author: LASTBPL (Blackwell Publishing Limited)
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: building, life, lifeplans, plans, manual, services, component
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2001-02-15
List price: $264.99
ISBN-10: 0632058870
ISBN-13: 9780632058877
Here at last is the definitive source of robust data on the durability and maintenance requirements of mechanical and electrical plants. This unique manual provides much-needed guidance on the whole-life performance of building services components - which often account for 60% of a building’s running costs. Service lives of components are explained - from control valves to hydraulic lifts, and are ranked according to recognized quality benchmarks, with adjustment factors for differing environments, use patterns and operating regimes. Summaries of typical inspection and maintenance requir
Author: Committee on New TechnologyInnovation in Building
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: building, technology, studies, management, series, public, innovation, fostering, new, role, agencies
Number of Pages: 142
Published: 1992-01-01
List price: $28.00
ISBN-10: 0309047838
ISBN-13: 9780309047838
This book explores innovation in the U.S. construction-related industries (i.e., design services, construction, building materials and products manufacture, and facilities operation and maintenance) and recommends a strategy for fostering new technology. These industries account for about ten percent of the U.S. economy; federal agencies themselves spend some $15 billion annually on construction. A government strategy based on federal agencies that encourage applications of new technology for their own projects, activities to enhance the pursuit and effective transfer of new technology to the
Author:
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Keywords: building, series, block, blocks, seagram
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1568982011
ISBN-13: 9781568982014
These new titles in the Building Blocks series showcase four more icons of modern architecture, as portrayed by renowned architectural photographer Ezra Stoller. Two buildings by Frank Lloyd Wright, Fallingwater and Taliesin West, Louis Kahn’s Salk Institute, and Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building are shown in original condition, with original furnishings, as the architects intended them to be seen. Wright’s integration of architecture and landscape, Kahn’s dramatic yet humane monumentality, and Mies’s austere elegance are revealed and preserved in Stoller̵
Author: Joel Lurie Grishaver
Publisher: Torah Aura Productions
Keywords: life, jewish, building, passover
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1998-06-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0933873166
ISBN-13: 9780933873162
Passover is living history. Every symbol of the Seder has its own story to tell. This book helps families use the Seder to remember what it was like when we were slaves in Egypt. A guide for parents is included.Also available:Building Jewish Life: Shabbat - ISBN 0933873514Building Jewish Life: Sukkot and Simhat Torah - ISBN 0933873131Torah Aura Productions publishes books for Jewish schools and families that help celebrate our heritage and our faith.We have over 25 years of experience as the leading creator of high quality educational materials that enable Jewish children to become empowered J
Author: Joel Lurie Grishaver
Publisher: Torah Aura Productions
Keywords: life, jewish, building, purim
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 1988-05-01
List price: $4.95
ISBN-10: 0933873123
ISBN-13: 9780933873124
Purim is both a fun and meaningful holiday. Making lots of noise when Haman’s name is read teaches us that when we work together we are stronger than evil. The triumphant story of Esther teaches us that every person can be a hero. Purim is both a fun and meaningful holiday. Making lots of noise when Haman’s name is read teaches us that when we work together we are stronger than evil. The triumphant story of Esther teaches us that every person can be a hero.Also available:Building Jewish Life: Shabbat - ISBN 0933873514Building Jewish Life: Sukkot and Simhat Torah - ISBN 0933873131To
Authors:Clarke Snell, Tim Callahan,
Publisher: Lark Books
Keywords: building, guide, alternative, complete, cordwood, cob, living, bale, roofs, earth, new, methods, plaster, straw
Number of Pages: 616
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 1600595340
ISBN-13: 9781600595349
The best-selling and highly regarded reference to sustainable construction gets an update! It’s refreshed with a completely revised introduction, a bright new cover, and extensive online resource tie-ins. Plus, it’s now printed on recycled paper with agri-based inks, so it’s greener than ever!This groundbreaking book doesn’t just tell you about “green” house-building techniques: it actually shows you, with more than 1,200 step-by-step photographs that follow the actual erection of an alternative building from site selection to final-touch interior details. Readers will get a clear
