Building with Earth
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? The manual Building with Earth, which has been translated into many languages, describes the building technology of this material. The physical properties and characteristic values are explained in a hands-on manner: with proper moisture protection, earth buildings are very durable, and in particular the combination with wood or straw allows a wide spectrum of design options. Numerous built examples demonstrate the range of applications for this fully recyclable material. * Fifth and revised edition of the reference work on rammed earth construction * With seven new and relevant international case studies * Many drawings illustrate various construction methods
Building with Earth
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? ...
Light Earth Building
The interest in clay as a building material - which has proved its sustainable characteristics over centuries - is growing. Light clay, which is light in weight and easy to work, is presented here as a versatile and forward-looking building materi...
Rebuilding Earth
Rebuilding Earth
Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives. These initiatives have used b...
Building with Steel
Detail Practice: Building with Steel is a handbook for quick, goal-oriented reading and implementation. Case study projects exemplify common norm details using large-scale drawings. The fundamentals of planning load-bearing structures provide desi...
Building With Logs
Now completely revised and updated, B. Allan This classic is still considered the best book ever written on making a full sized log home. This enlarged eighth edition, revised in 1997, is filled with numerous major construction improvements, and c...
Building with Bamboo
Als Baumaterial der warmen Klimazonen erfreut sich Bambus eines wachsenden Interesses unter Architekten der nördlichen Hemisphäre: Bambus hat bei großer Stabilität nicht nur ein geringes Gewicht und ist ausgesprochen elastisch, sondern ist auch reichlich verfügbar. Die Anwendungsbereiche von Bambus in der Architektur haben sich erheblich diversifiziert, sodass heute sogar weitgespannte Konstruktionen wie Brücken daraus gebaut werden. Bambuswerkstoffe, zu denen an renommierten Hochschulen wie der ETH Zürich oder der SUTD in Singapur geforscht wird, haben ebenso die Verwendung erweitert. Die Neuausgabe bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Verarbeitungstechniken dieses nachwachsenden Materials. Die Präsentation von wegweisenden Bambusbauten wurde durch neuere Projekte aktualisiert.
Building with Hardwood
Der weltweit boomende Holzbau und dessen rasante Entwicklung bis über die Hochhausgrenze hinaus verlangt Hochleistungswerkstoffe, die durch Laubholz möglich werden. Innovative Produktionsmethoden und Verarbeitungsprozesse lassen wirtschaftlich kon...
Building with Stone
Enhance your life with beautiful and durable stone structures. With easy-to-follow instructions and an approachable style, master stonemason Charles McRaven guides you through a variety of building projects that include walls, dams, bridges, and m...
Building with Logs
Building with Logs
Building with Paper
Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing. They can be produced inexpensively, are made from renewable raw materials and are completely recyclable. The focus of their application is on ...
Building with Paper
Building with Paper
Building with Water
Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods...
Building with Cob
The ancient method of cob building uses a simple mixture of clay sub-soil, aggregate, straw and water to create solid structural walls built without shuttering or forms, onto a stone plinth. It is now undergoing a renaissance as an 'eco-friendly' ...
Building With Wood
Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both application and sustainability, it is being used across the world to create new and surprising styles. This e...
Intelligent Buildings and Building Automation
Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects. It focuses o...
Adobe and Rammed Earth Buildings
Earth is the oldest and most widely used building material in the world today. It's abundant, inexpensive, and energy-efficient. But if you're building with earth, simplicity of material needn't be an excuse for poor planning. Paul Graham McHenry,...
Building Physics of the Envelope
The facade is the buildings interface with its environment. It is here that building physics parameters such as heat, humidity, sound and light interact with the building. All these influences need to be controlled by the building envelope in orde...
Living with Buildings
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, soci...
Building Tools with GitHub
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service's powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chap...
Building Applications with iBeacon
High-precision location information is increasingly useful for mobile application developers, since it allows devices to interact with the world around them. This practical book shows you how to achieve arm's reach accuracy with iBeacons, simple t...
Building Chatbots with Python
Build your own chatbot using Python and open source tools. This book begins with an introduction to chatbots where you will gain vital information on their architecture. You will then dive straight into natural language processing with the natural...
Building Forms with Vue.js
Learn how to build dynamic schema-driven forms with Vue from scratch Key Features Understand the basics of form component composition Scale and integrate your forms with libraries such as Vuex and Vuelidate Convert any form into a self-generated s...
Building Microservices with Go
Your one-stop guide to the common patterns and practices, showing you how to apply these using the Go programming language About This Book * This short, concise, and practical guide is packed with real-world examples of building microservices with...
Building with Straw Bales
An updated, fully revised, full-colour edition of the definitive manual on building with straw bales, described by Grand Designs as an 'essential guide'. Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective, easy to build and highly energy efficient, enabling ...
Open Building for Architects
Open Building is an internationally recognized approach to the design of buildings and building complexes with roots in the way the ordinary built environment grows and regenerates. The Open Building approach recognizes that both stability and cha...
Earthbag Building
Over 70 percent of Americans cannot afford to own a code-enforced, contractor-built home. This has led to widespread interest in using natural materials-straw, cob, and earth-for building homes and other buildings that are inexpensive, and that re...
Technology for Facility Managers
From BIM (building information modeling) to RFID (radio frequency identification) to BAS (building automation and control systems), facility managers of today's commercial buildings are often asked to work with a variety of technologies w...
Building Physics
The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and elect...
Basics Baukonstruktion
Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as masonry or timber buildings. On the b...
Basics Building Construction
Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as masonry or timber buildings. On the b...
Building Soil: A Down-to-Earth Approach
This is your down-to-earth, complete manual for achieving great gardening results with your own rich, organic soil!How do you recognize healthy soil? How much can your existing soil be improved? What are the best amendments to use for your soil? L...
Essential Rammed Earth Construction
Everything you need to know to build with rammed earth in warm and cold climates. Rammed earth - sand, gravel, and clay or lime/cement binder packed into forms - is a low-energy, high-performance building method, yielding beautiful, sustainable re...
Garth Marenghi's This Bursted Earth
'I wish I was half as critically respected as Garth Marenghi, even if I currently trounce him sales-wise (for now)' RICHARD OSMAN 'I bought all three novels of the TerrorTome trilogy in a bargain slipcase edition and have read two of them already....
Quilting with Curves
Discover how exciting (and easy) it is to sew curves in your patchwork projects with 20 geometric-patterned quilt patterns. Sew basic to complex curves in small and large quilts.