This book explores aspects of the historical and theoretical basis for portable architecture and provides an insight into the wide range of functions that it is used for today and the concerns and ideas for its future development.

A professional reference designed to assist surveyors, engineers, architects and contractors in diagnosing existing problems and avoiding them in new buildings.

This book, by a scientist, is not a textbook on English grammar: nor is it just one more book on how to write a technical report, or a thesis, or a paper for publication. It is about all the ways in which writing is important to scientists and engineers.

This is a fully revised edition of the UKs number one textbook on the law governing construction contracts and the management and administration of those contracts.

Housing Design Quality directly addresses the major planning debate of our time - the delivery and quality of new housing development.

This title will appeal to anyone interested in how we think and act in relation to cities, urban planning and governance.

The Design and Construction industry is in a state of attempted change. Improvement is a key word for Employer, Consultant and Contractor. Real steps forward are slow, and most damning is the continuous repetition of the same mistakes. Communication
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In an era of globalisation, there is an unprecedented scale and nature of contemporary migrant flows, as well as the flow of goods, capital, ideas, images and technology. This sheer number and mobility of contemporary migrants clearly has massively
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Buildings are responsible for 50% of C02 emissions and their design has become the focus of intense technical scrutiny. Knowing how to build more technically efficient, or more ecologically and being able to assemble the social resources to do so
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This E. & F. N. Spon title is now distributed by Routledge in the US and Canada