Foundation in Construction and Building Services Engineering: Core (Wales)

Foundation in Construction and Building Services Engineering: Core (Wales)

Author: Mike Jones

Publisher: Hodder Education

Published: 2021-08-20

Total Pages: 373

ISBN-13: 1398327956

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Lay the foundation for a career in the Construction and Building Services Engineering industries with this comprehensive textbook published in association with City & Guilds. With complete coverage of the Foundation qualification's six core units, this book will equip you with the skills you need to approach the next step in your career, as you prepare for assessment and choose your trade pathway. Topic coverage includes: an introduction to the built environment, health and safety, employability, emerging technologies and the built environment lifecycle. - Break down complex topics with summary tables and more than 250 images and artworks. - Re-cap knowledge and understanding with 'Key terms' features and a detailed glossary. - Get ready for the workplace with 'Industry tips', 'Health and safety' reminders and 'Improve your maths/English' tasks. - Get to know your local built environment with engaging activities and historical examples. - Prepare for assessment with end-of-chapter multiple-choice questions and example guided discussion questions. - Hone core skills with expert author Mike Jones, who draws on his extensive teaching and industry experience.


LAXTON'S BUILDING PRICE BOOK 2007

LAXTON'S BUILDING PRICE BOOK 2007

Author: V B Johnson

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2006-10-16

Total Pages: 1467

ISBN-13: 008046484X

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Now in its 179th edition, Laxton’s has become a firm favourite in the UK Building Industry. With more prices and more in-depth build-ups, Laxton’s offers more practical and complete information than any other price book available This new edition takes into account major price variations that stem frm raw material costs in the last few months. * Higher-fuel costs have impacted on prices across the board, in particular costs of non-ferrous metals in increased * Copper sheet and pipe show prince increases of well above 50% in the last year, while zinc, lead and aluminium prices have also risen significantly * There are savings in plaster and drainage goods, prices are down All the prices in Laxton's are based on the new 3 year Construction Industry Joint council wage rate agreement that came into force at the end of June 2006 *Saving you time - comprehensive basic price and approximate estimating sections make putting together outline costings quicker and easier *Saving you effort - all the information you need on each measured item is clearly set out on a single page, with a full break down of costs *Saving you money - all 250,000 prices are individually checked and updated to make sure that your tender costs are precise


Foundation in Construction and the Built Environment: Core (Qualifications Wales)

Foundation in Construction and the Built Environment: Core (Qualifications Wales)

Author: Mike Jones

Publisher:

Published: 2021-07-30

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781398328051

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Lay the foundation for a career in the Construction and Building Services Engineering industries with this comprehensive textbook published in association with City & Guilds. With complete coverage of the Foundation qualification's six core units, this book will equip you with the skills you need to approach the next step in your career, as you prepare for assessment and choose your trade pathway. Topic coverage includes: an introduction to the built environment, health and safety, employability, emerging technologies and the built environment lifecycle. - Break down complex topics with summary tables and more than 250 images and artworks. - Re-cap knowledge and understanding with 'Key terms' features and a detailed glossary. - Get ready for the workplace with 'Industry tips', 'Health and safety' reminders and 'Improve your maths/English' tasks. - Get to know your local built environment with engaging activities and historical examples. - Prepare for assessment with end-of-chapter multiple-choice questions and example guided discussion questions. - Hone core skills with expert author Mike Jones, who draws on his extensive teaching and industry experience.


Laxton's Building Price Book 2002

Laxton's Building Price Book 2002

Author: V B Johnson

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2001-10-10

Total Pages: 817

ISBN-13: 0080546153

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Laxton's gives you access to the most reliable and current data. All 250,000 price elements have been individually checked and updated for the 2002 edition so that your estimates are always accurate and cost competitive. Laxton's makes analytical estimating simple and straightforward by displaying a complete breakdown for all measured items under 10 separate headings, all on a single page. This shows you a complete price build-up at a glance - and gives you the option to make price adjustments wherever necessary. You can find the sections you need quickly and easily, via the special marker system on the front cover and page edges. The free CD with this price book contains Masterbill's ESTIMATOR software and fully resourced data on all the price elements in Laxtons. Not only does the CD offer fast and efficient pricing at the touch of a button, it gives details of all the resources required to do the job. Laxton's approximate estimating section gives all in pricing for quick reference on the cost of composite items such as floors helping you calculate the cost implications of using plywood sheeting rather than softwood boarding, for example. Laxton's Basic Price section gives you a quick price on hundreds of items - from concrete work to roofing materials - to save you going through hundreds of lists from suppliers, manufacturers and building merchants. Laxton's Brand and Trade Names section lists over 12,000 brands and trade names and company addresses to help you locate specific items. Latest wage rates, fees and allowances All 250,000 price elements checked and updated


Construction Technology

Construction Technology

Author: Eric Fleming

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-12

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 1405148160

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This new textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to everyaspect of the technology of low-rise construction. It includessub-structure (site work, setting out and foundations) andsuperstructure (flooring, roofs, finishes, fittings and fixtures).The material here covers the first year course requirement of allcourses on which construction technology is taught - no matter whatthe ultimate qualification. It offers tried and tested solutions to a range of constructionproblems and is organised following the sequence of construction.It will show what has been done in the past, demonstrating goodpractice - what works and what doesn't - and common faults. Thereare summaries of the more important BSI documents and reference tothe latest building regulations. Lengthy explanations are avoided by relying heavily on hundreds ofillustrations, pairing detail drawings with clear photographs toshow real life construction situations. The supporting spreadsheet referred to in the book can be found atthis linkhttp://www.blackwellpublishing.com/pdf/fleming/Fleming_spreadsheet.xls


Building Adaptation

Building Adaptation

Author: James Douglas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2006-08-11

Total Pages: 680

ISBN-13: 1136425101

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As existing buildings age, nearly half of all construction activity in Britain is related to maintenance, refurbishment and conversions. Building adaptation is an activity that continues to make a significant contribution to the workload of the construction industry. Given its importance to sustainable construction, the proportion of adaptation works in relation to new build is likely to remain substantial for the foreseeable future, especially in the developed parts of the world. Building Adaptation, Second Edition is intended as a primer on the physical changes that can affect older properties. It demonstrates the general principles, techniques, and processes needed when existing buildings must undergo alteration, conversion, extension, improvement, or refurbishment. The publication of the first edition of Building Adaptation reflected the upsurge in refurbishment work. The book quickly established itself as one of the core texts for building surveying students and others on undergraduate and postgraduate built environment courses. This new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all the key issues relating to the adaptation of buildings. It deals with any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance.


Foundation Analysis and Design

Foundation Analysis and Design

Author: Joseph E. Bowles

Publisher:

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 1175

ISBN-13: 9780071188449

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The revision of this best-selling text for a junior/senior course in Foundation Analysis and Design now includes an IBM computer disk containing 16 compiled programs together with the data sets used to produce the output sheets, as well as new material on sloping ground, pile and pile group analysis, and procedures for an improved anlysis of lateral piles. Bearing capacity analysis has been substantially revised for footings with horizontal as well as vertical loads. Footing design for overturning now incorporates the use of the same uniform linear pressure concept used in ascertaining the bearing capacity. Increased emphasis is placed on geotextiles for retaining walls and soil nailing.