MCE E-Books: Recent submissions

  • Formwork for Concrete Structures Fourth Edition 
    Robert L. Peurifoy, arold D. Oberlender (The McGraw-Hill Companies, In, 2011)
    This book is written for architects, engineers, and constructors who are responsible for designing and/or building formwork and temporary structures during the construction process. It is also designed to serve either ...
  • Principles of Soil Dynamics 2nd Edition 
    Braja M. Das (Cengage Learning, 2011)
    This text was originally published as Fundamentals of Soil Dynamics with a 1983 copyright by Elsevier Science Publishing Company, New York. The first edition of Principles of Soil Dynamics was published by PWS-Kent ...
  • Towards Sustainable Urban Tran 
    Linas Kliucininkas (Peter Lang, 2012)
  • Illustrated 2009 Building Code Handbook 
    Terry L. Patterson (he McGraw-Hill Companies, In, 2010)
    Every effort has been made to provide accurate clarifi cations of the code sections selected. To this end, I attended public hearings and have examined hundreds of proposals for changes that were subsequently approved ...
  • Design Analysis in Rock Mechanics 
    William G. Pariseau (Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2007)
    A preface gives the author an opportunity to explain his work: what the objective is, what level of understanding is assumed, why some material is included and some not, and so forth. Like most experienced practitioners ...
  • The Official Highway Code 
    Unknown author (Driving Standards Agenc, 2007)
    The most vulnerable road users are pedestrians, particularly children, older or disabled people, cyclists, motorcyclists and horse riders. It is important that all road users are aware of the Code and are considerate ...
  • Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 
    John Perkins (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc, 2004)
    I wrote that in 1982, as the beginning of a book with the working title, Conscience of an Economic Hit Man. The book was dedicated to the presidents of two countries, men who had been my clients, whom I respected and ...
  • Green Roof Construction and Maintenance 
    Luckett, Leed A.P Kelly (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2009)
    Green roofs have been increasing in popularity in the United States for the last 10 years and in Europe over the last 40 years. The green roof concept represents a truly rare occurrence in modern economics: the creation ...
  • A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice 10th Ed 
    Michael Armstrong (Kogan Page Limited, 2006)
    This tenth edition of A Handbook of Human Resource Management Practice contains many additions and revisions. It refers to major developments in HR practice in the last two to three years such as the development of the ...
  • The Daily Stoic 
    Holiday Ryan (Penguin, 2016)
    T INTRODUCTION he private diaries of one of Rome’s greatest emperors, the personal letters of one of Rome’s best playwrights and wisest power brokers, the lectures of a former slave and exile, turned influential teacher. ...
  • Estimating Building Costs 
    Calin M. Popescu, Kan Phaobunjong (MARCEL DEKKER, INC., 2003)
    This book presents the state-of-the-art principles, practices, and techniques related to estimating building costs in metric. It is primarily designed as a textbook for graduate and upper-division undergraduate students ...
  • Open Channel Hydraulics 
    Terry W. Sturm (McGraw-Hill, 2001)
    The study of open channel hydraulics is a challenging and exciting endeavor becai.rse of the influence of gravity on free surface flows. The position of the free surface is not known a priori, and counterintuitive phenomena ...
  • Irrigation and Water Resources Engineering 
    G.L Asawa (New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, 2008)
    Since the publication of the book “Irrigation Engineering”, the author has been receiving suggestions to include a chapter on ‘Hydrology’ as, at many institutions in the country, Hydrology is being taught as part of the ...
  • Fundamentals of Durable Reinforced Concrete 
    Mark G. Richardson (Spon Press, 2002)
    This book has been written at a time of change in European concrete practice, particularly in respect of specifying for durability. The introduction to European practice of non-harmonised standard EN 206–1 Concrete – ...
  • The Design Life of Structures 
    Somerville (Blakiee, 1992)
  • Concrete Mix Design, Quality Control and Specification Third Edition 
    Ken W. Day (Taylor & Francis, 2006)
    Between writing this third edition and its actual publication, there have been some possibly quite significant developments in my situation. The assumption during writing the book was that I was fully retired and might ...
  • Plane and Geodetic Surveying 
    Aylmer Johnson (Spon Press, 2004)
    More than almost any other engineering discipline, surveying is a practical, hands-on skill. It is impossible to become an expert surveyor, or even a competent one, without using real surveying instruments and processing ...
  • Highway Engineering Handbook 
    Roger L. Brockenbrough, P.E (The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc, 2009)
    This new edition of the handbook has been updated throughout to reflect continuing changes and improvements in design trends and specifications. The chapter on bridge engineering has been revised to provide more comprehensive ...
  • Concrete Pavement Design, Construction, and Performance 
    Norbert Delatte (Taylor & Francis Books, Inc., 2008)
    There are too many people to thank for helping me with this book, but I will try anyway. To begin with, the members of American Concrete Institute Committees 325, Concrete Pavements, Committee 327, Roller Compacted Concrete ...
  • Virtual Reality and the Built Environment 
    Jennifer Whyte (Architectural Press Elsevier, 2002)
    Virtual reality is influencing the way that spaces are designed and it is changing our experience of the built environment. For example, in the summer of 2000, the artist Horst Kiechle was using a computer for design. ...

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