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The Design Manager's Handbook by John Eynon
RRP: £49.95Booksplease Price: £45.30Design management as a recognised role in the built environment industry is relatively new, initially arising from the need for better co-ordination and delivery of design information from design... -
Simplified Design of Concrete Structures James Ambrose (University of Southern California) 9780470044148
RRP: £98.95Booksplease Price: £84.93For over sixty years, the primary source for design of concrete structures--now revised and updated Simplified Design of Concrete Structures, Eighth Edition covers all the latest, commonly used... -
Simplified Design of Wood Structures by James Ambrose
RRP: £98.95Booksplease Price: £95.70SIMPLIFIED DESIGN of WOOD STRUCTURES Architecture Newly updated-the most accessible, thorough introduction to the basics of wood structure design No architect's education would be complete without a... -
The Technology of Building Defects by John Hinks
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.89The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique review of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation. General educational... -
Property Investment Decisions: A quantitative approach by Stephen Hargitay
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £86.44The importance of property as an investment medium continues to grow. Investors in property or those involved with the provision of expert advice to investors have had to improve the effectiveness... -
Building Services Engineering David V. Chadderton (Consultant, Australia) 9780415699327
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £61.24Engineering services within buildings account for ongoing energy use, greenhouse gas contribution and life safety provisions. This fully updated sixth edition of David Chadderton's leading textbook... -
Understanding Building Failures by James Douglas
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £51.89Building defects still continue to plague the construction industry. The lessons learned over the last forty years have not been fully applied. Many new or refurbished buildings still leak or crack... -
Spon's Estimating Costs Guide to Minor Works, Alterations and Repairs to Fire, Flood, Gale and Theft Damage: Unit Rates and Project Costs, Fourth Edition by Bryan Spain
RRP: £72.99Booksplease Price: £66.88All the cost data you need to keep your estimating accurate, competitive and profitable.Do you work on jobs between GBP50 and GBP50,000? Then this book is for you.Specially written for contractors,... -
Economics for the Modern Built Environment by Les Ruddock
RRP: £67.99Booksplease Price: £62.64Recent decades have seen a major social and economic changes across the developed world and consequent changes in the construction and property industries. The discipline of construction economics... -
Facilities Management: Innovation and Performance by Keith Alexander
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89Facilities Management sets out a new framework for the discipline of facilities management which challenges many of the norms and which sets out new methods for optimising the performance of a... -
Writing Engineering Specifications by Paul Fitchett
RRP: £65.99Booksplease Price: £60.94Engineers need to understand the legal and commercial context in which they draw up technical specifications. This thoroughly up-dated edition of Haslam's successful Writing Engineering... -
Domestic Central Heating Wiring Systems and Controls by Raymond Ward
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04This unique A-Z guide to central heating wiring systems provides a comprehensive reference manual for hundreds of items of heating and control equipment, making it an indispensable handbook for... -
Curing Concrete Peter C. Taylor 9780367865566
RRP: £60.99Booksplease Price: £56.69Curing is one of those activities that every civil engineer and construction worker has heard of, but in reality does not worry about much. In practice, curing is often low on the list of priorities... -
Global Structural Analysis of Buildings Karoly Zalka (formerly at Szent Istvan University, Hungary) 9780367864545
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33Global Structural Analysis of Buildings is a practical reference on the design and assessment of building structures which will help the reader to check the safety and overall performance of... -
Measuring Construction: Prices, Output and Productivity by Rick Best
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Despite the size, complexity and importance of the construction industry, there has been little study to date which focuses on the challenge of drawing reliable conclusions from the available data... -
Engineering Aspects of Howrah Bridge at Kolkata (1943) by Amitabha Ghoshal
Booksplease Price: £60.08Howrah Bridge is an iconic engineering structure of Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) and is in excellent condition after 78 years of extensive use. The bridge is a balanced cantilever structure, has a... -
Reinforced Soil Walls and Slopes: Design and Construction Mauricio Ehrlich 9780367383428
RRP: £69.99Booksplease Price: £64.33When it comes to using reinforcements to grant better mechanical performance to soils, geosynthetics, one of the newest groups of building materials, have become mandatory in almost all works of... -
Value and Waste in Lean Construction by Fidelis A. Emuze
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24Non-value adding activities are otherwise known as 'waste' in the lean construction lexicon. The aim of this collection is to build a common understanding of the role and contribution of value-adding... -
Plane and Geodetic Surveying by Aylmer Johnson
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £110.39Plane and Geodetic Surveying blends together theory and practice, conventional techniques and satellite-based methods, to provide the ideal book for students of surveying. It gives detailed guidance... -
Quality Lighting for High Performance Buildings by Michael Stiller
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £106.11This book provides an overview of the basic concepts of quality, indoor lighting, and explains concepts like visual comfort, visual interest, and integrated design as they relate to the practice of... -
Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes: A Guide to Collaborative Practice in the UK Martin Field (Centre for Comparative Housing Research, De Montfort University) 9781447344391
Booksplease Price: £12.99In Creating Community-Led and Self-Build Homes, Martin Field explores the ways in which people and communities across the UK have been striving to create the homes and neighbourhood communities they... -
Brickmaking: History and Heritage by Dr David Johnson
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.68Across much of the country buildings have been made of brick, rather than stone, from the Roman period onwards. High-status buildings of the Tudor and Stuart eras were often built of clay brick, but... -
Painting and Decorating Derek Butterfield (Curriculum Manager for Construction Crafts at Reading College and School of Arts & Design.) 9781444335019
RRP: £31.95Booksplease Price: £29.83This textbook presents a series of concise, simply written and well illustrated technical information sheets, providing essential job knowledge and understanding for the painter and decorator. It... -
Engineering Project Management Nigel J. Smith (University of Leeds) 9781405168021
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £50.44Engineering Project Management provides a clear description of the aims of project management, based on best practice, and discusses the theory and practice in relation to multi-disciplinary... -
The City & Guilds Textbook: Painting and Decorating for Level 1 and Level 2 Barrie Yarde 9781398305779
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £40.22Brush up on the skills you'll need for your career with this comprehensive new textbook published in association with City & Guilds and covering the 7907 and 6707 Painting and Decorating... -
Building Procurement by R Morledge
RRP: £58.95Booksplease Price: £53.19As an industrial process, construction is unique. The procurement processes used to achieve the successful completion of built assets requires a different approach to that adopted in most other... -
A Handbook for the Sustainable Use of Timber in Construction Jim Coulson (Director and Technical Timber Consultant, Technology for Timber Ltd, Ripon, N. Yorkshire) 9781119701095
RRP: £73.95Booksplease Price: £67.16There is a growing interest in the use of wood in new building, not least because it has low embodied energy and it is an infinitely renewable resource. Despite a great deal of innovation in the use... -
Tolley's Industrial and Commercial Gas Installation Practice: Gas Service Technology by John Hazlehurst
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.34This is the third of three essential reference volumes for those concerned with the installation and servicing of domestic and industrial gas equipment. This volume explains the basic principles... -
Brickwork Level 2: For Construction Diploma, Technical Certificate and Apprenticeship Programmes by Malcolm Thorpe
Booksplease Price: £31.99Brickwork Level 2 has been adapted from John Hodge's classic Brickwork for Apprentices - the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Designed to meet new requirements of the City and... -
Brickwork Level 1 Malcolm Thorpe (past President of the Guild of Bricklayers and former college lecturer, UK) 9780367625351
RRP: £94.99Booksplease Price: £91.48Brickwork Level 1 has been adapted from John Hodges's classic Brickwork for Apprentices - the established textbook on brickwork for bricklayers. Designed to meet new requirements of the City and... -
International Directory of Building Research Information and Development Organizations by International Council for Building Research, Studies and Documentation
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Every entry follows a standard pattern: after the address and telephone number of the institution there is a brief description of its history and financial support, followed by the names of the... -
Air Conditioning Engineering W.P. Jones 9780367578879
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.48Designed for students and professional engineers, the fifth edition of this classic text deals with fundamental science and design principles of air conditioning engineering systems. W P Jones is an... -
Building with Reclaimed Components and Materials: A Design Handbook for Reuse and Recycling by Bill Addis
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18Interest in green and sustainable design is growing throughout the world. Both national and local governments are active in promoting reuse and recycling in order to reduce the amount of waste going... -
New Aspects of Quantity Surveying Practice Duncan Cartlidge (Construction Procurement Consultant, UK) 9781032275956
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18The construction industry is undergoing great change particularly with the introduction of digital technologies and the increasing emphasis on sustainability and ethical practice. The fifth edition... -
Building Surveys by Peter Glover
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Building Surveys has been a trusted guide for both students and professionals for nearly 40 years, evolving throughout its nine editions to address the challenges and responsibilities of the building... -
Testing and Balancing HVAC Air and Water Systems Samuel C. Sugarman (Private Consultant, Newport Beach, California, USA) 9788770223539
RRP: £125.00Booksplease Price: £110.40This thoroughly revised book will provide the reader with an understanding of the principles and practices of testing and balancing (TAB) heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) air and... -
International Construction Management: How the Global Industry Reshapes the World by Igor Martek
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49This book tells you everything you need to know about international construction: the companies, their markets, the types of projects they build, how they compete and operate and how it affects us... -
Sustainable Construction Supervisor TG by NCCER
RRP: £58.19Booksplease Price: £53.21This new module was developed to instruct construction supervisors on sustainable construction management techniques, especially as they relate to the construction-phase LEED points targeted for... -
Fundamentals of Residential Construction, Fifth Ed ition by Allen
RRP: £107.95Booksplease Price: £95.21FUNDAMENTALS OF RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION THE NEW EDITION OF THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE TO PROFESSIONAL HOME CONSTRUCTION, FULLY UPDATED AND REVISED Fundamentals of Residential Construction provides clear,... -
Carpentry Framing & Finish Level 2 Trainee Guide, Paperback by NCCER
RRP: £105.81Booksplease Price: £95.69This exceptionally produced trainee guide features a highly illustrated design, technical hints and tips from industry experts, review questions and a whole lot more! Key content includes: Commercial...