Opportunities in Landscape Architecture, Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Careers

Opportunities in Landscape Architecture, Botanical Gardens and Arboreta Careers (Opportunities in)
By Blythe Camenson
* Publisher: McGraw-Hill
* Number Of Pages: 160
* Publication Date: 2007-03-26
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071476083
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071476089

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Put your career in full bloom!
Get started in a career that has a promising future and is financially rewarding. Opportunities in Landscape Architecture, Botanical Gardens, and Arboreta Careers provides you with a complete overview of the job possibilities, salary figures, and experience required to get started in this creative industry.

This career-boosting book will help you:

* Determine the specialty that’s right for you, from landscape design to conservation to urban planning
* Acquire in-depth knowledge of landscape planning, cultivation, maintenance, and plant and flower care
* Find out what kind of salary you can expect
* Understand the daily routine of your chosen field
* Focus your job search using industry resources

ENJOY A GREAT CAREER AS A:
landscape designer * arborist * golf course superintendent * groundskeeper * irrigation specialist * gardener

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Facility Manager’s Handbook

By Joseph F. Gustin
* Publisher: Fairmont Press
* Number Of Pages: 364
* Publication Date: 2002-11-20
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0824709330
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780824709334

 

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The “bricks and mortar” issues of facility management – HVAC, lighting, electrical, plumbing, space allocation, security and grounds maintenance – continue to be at the core the facility manager’s role. However, the processes involved in addressing these areas have become more complex. The proliferation of regulatory mandates, worker compensation issues, increased employee litigation, and violence in the workplace have redefined the role of the facility manager beyond “gatekeeper” to that of full-scale operations manager. Today’s corporations, organizations, and business partnerships invest heavily in their physical plants. It naturally follows that they expect to maximize the return on their investment. Facility managers are seen as the catalysts for ensuring that optimal return. The Facility Manager’s Handbook addresses all of these issues, and provides a multitude of tested ideas, procedures and examples for successfully and cost-effectively managing facility operations. Written in a plain-language, reader-friendly style, it provides a panoramic view of the process by isolating the key areas the facility manager must address, including real estate, space and change management, indoor air quality, emergency preparedness and response planning, communications systems, regulatory mandates and more

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Glass Structures: Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins By Jan Wurm

Glass Structures: Design and Construction of Self-supporting Skins
By Jan Wurm
* Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
* Number Of Pages: 255
* Publication Date: 2007-08-17
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 3764376082
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9783764376086

 

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Flat glass opens up more possibilities for the planner than virtually any other material. Because of the technological complexity of using it, however, no specific structural forms have been developed for glass supporting frameworks as they have been for wood, concrete, and steel. This book is thus the first to present a coherent guide to the planning and design of glass supporting frameworks. The focus is on the pressure-resistant, flat supporting element as a basic building block for broad supporting structures. The spatial and constructive forms of multifunctional, self-supporting glass envelopes are vividly illustrated and systematically explained. The constructions presented exhibit new aesthetic qualities, based not on the dictum of “dematerialization” but on the poetry of gleaming and transparent planes. They ring in a new chapter in the history of glass architecture

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Private Dwelling: Contemplating The Use Of Housing

Private Dwelling:
Contemplating The Use Of Housing
By Peter King
* Publisher: Routledge
* Number Of Pages: 208
* Publication Date: 2004-10-26
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 041533621X
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415336215

 

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What do housing professionals, architects, estate agents and town planners do when they go home at night? Presumably they do the same as the rest of the population. They indulge in that ubiquitous and unique activity called dwelling. They use the housing planned, designed, managed, bought and sold by professionals for uses specific to themselves: and while they are doing it, so is everybody else.

Housing is something that is deeply personal to us. It offers us privacy, security and allows us to be intimate with those we are close to. This book considers this private nature by looking at the nature of privacy and how we choose to share our dwelling. The book discusses the manner in which we talk about our housing, how it manifests and assuages our anxieties and desires and how it helps us come to terms with loss.

Private Dwelling offers a deeply original take on housing. The book proceeds through a series of speculations, using philosophical analysis and critique, personal anecdote, film criticism, social and cultural theory and policy analysis to unpick the subjective nature of housing as a personal place where we can be sure of ourselves. The book will be of interest to students, academics and researchers in housing, architecture, planning as well as social theory and philosophy

 

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Planning Middle Eastern Cities An Urban Kaleidoscope

Planning Middle Eastern Cities: An Urban Kaleidoscope
By Y. Elsheshtawy
* Publisher: Routledge
* Number Of Pages: 272
* Publication Date: 2004-08-01
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0415304008
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780415304009

Has globalization replaced colonization as a threat to the heritage and identity of the Middle East City of the twenty-first century? How did colonial influences change the urban form of the Arab capitals? And is today’s hybridization of architectural and urban discourse affecting the development of the cities, their spatial planning and design?

These are just some of the questions addressed by Yasser Elsheshtawy and his contributors using case study material for a diverse range of cities in the Arab world, included Algiers, Lake Tunis, Cairo, Khartoum, Baghdad, Sana’a and Dubai

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Architecture and Cubism

Architecture and Cubism
By Eve Blau, Nancy J. Troy
* Publisher: The MIT Press
* Number Of Pages: 278
* Publication Date: 1997-11-14
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0262024225
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780262024228

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A fundamental tenet of the historiography of modern architecture holds that cubism forged a vital link between avant-garde practices in early twentieth-century painting and architecture. This collection of essays, commissioned by the Canadian Centre for Architecture, takes a close look at that widely accepted but little scrutinized belief. In the first historically focused examination of the issue, the volume returns to the original site of cubist art in pre-World War I Europe and proceeds to examine the historical, theoretical, and socio-political relationships between avant-garde practices in painting, architecture, and other cultural forms, including poetry, landscape, and the decorative arts. The essays look at works produced in France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Czechoslovakia during the early decades of the twentieth century.

Together, the essays show that although there were many points of intersection — historical, metaphorical, theoretical, and ideological — between cubism and architecture, there was no simple, direct link between them. Most often the connections between cubist painting and modern architecture were construed analogically, by reference to shared formal qualities such as fragmentation, spatial ambiguity, transparency, and multiplicity; or to techniques used in other media such as film, poetry, and photomontage. Cubist space itself remained two-dimensional; with the exception of Le Cobusiers work, it was never translated into the three dimensions of architecture. Cubism’s significance for architecture also remained two-dimensional — a method of representing modern spatial experience through the ordering impulses of art

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Architect’s Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm

Architect’s Essentials of Starting, Assessing and Transitioning a Design Firm (The Architect’s Essentials of Professional Practice)
By Peter Piven, Bradford Perkins
* Publisher: Wiley
* Number Of Pages: 272
* Publication Date: 2003-04-21
* ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0471234818
* ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780471234814

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Written by two leading experts in the field this essential volume offers a step-by-step guide to understanding and evaluating the goals, risks and the rewards of starting a firm.

* Covers the basics of firm organisation, personnel requirements, legal considerations, fee setting, marketing issues and the essentials of strategic and business plans
* Addresses how to get started including how to create your first business plan, evaluate initial needs and costs, create a budget and a produce a list of action items to get started
* This volume is practical, applied, concise, portable, affordable and user-friendly

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Solar Architecture

In Detail: Solar Architecture

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* Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel
* Number Of Pages: 176
* Publication Date: 2003-11-24
* ISBN / ASIN: 3764307471

Book Description:
In the very near future energy-efficient building will be the rule rather than the exception. Insulating glazing, multi-functional facades and organic solar cells are examples of important new developments in the field of solar thermal technology, photo-voltaics, heating and ventilation technology which are suitable for a wide range of uses from large-scale urban-planning projects to individual single family houses, and can make significant contributions to the conservation of natural resources in sustainable building. Carefully selected articles provide information on planning methods and techniques which will enable the user to assess and apply appropriate measures. The essays are complemented by a selection of built examples which demonstrate innovative solutions and the importance of an integrated planning process in realized projects, complete with full plans and large scale details.

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Scaling of Structural Strength, 2nd Edition

Scaling of Structural Strength, 2nd Edition
Publisher: Butterworth | Pages: 336 | 2005-09-29 | ISBN 0750668490 | PDF | 25 MB

This book is concerned with a leading-edge topic of great interest and importance, exemplifying the relationship between experimental research, material modeling, structural analysis and design. It focuses on the effect of structure size on structural strength and failure behaviour.

Bazant’s theory has found wide application to all quasibrittle materials, including rocks, ice, modern fiber composites and tough ceramics. The topic of energetic scaling, considered controversial until recently, is finally getting the attention it deserves, mainly as a result of Bazant’s pioneering work. In this new edition an extra section of data and new appendices covering twelve new application developments are included.
* The first book to show the ‘size effect’ theory of structure size on strength
* Presents the principles and applications of Bazant’s pioneering work on structural strength
* Revised edition with new material on topics including asymptotic matching, flexural strength of fiber-composite laminates, polymeric foam fractures and the design of reinforced concrete beams

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Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide

Architecting Software Intensive Systems: A Practitioners Guide
416 pages | Auerbach Publications; 1 edition (November 18, 2008) | 1420045695 | PDF | 4 Mb

Focusing on the architecture centric design method (ACDM), this book provides deep insight into designing software architectures for systems and how to effectively use architectural design artifacts once created. The text describes how to integrate ACDM with existing organizational structures and processes. The author demonstrates how to tailor defined software process frameworks and methodologies to ACDM in order to design the architecture for a software intensive system. The chapters offer practical guidelines for the general iterative model, the general waterfall model, the rational unified process, the team software process, scrum, as well as extreme programming.

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Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook

 

CRC | 2008-06-24 | ISBN: 0849374928 | 1584 pages | PDF | 33.2 MB

The first edition of this comprehensive work quickly filled the need for an in-depth handbook on concrete construction engineering and technology. Living up to the standard set by its bestselling predecessor, this second edition of the Concrete Construction Engineering Handbook covers the entire range of issues pertaining to the construction and design of reinforced and prestressed concrete structures.

New and Updated Topics Include —
The latest advances in engineered concrete materials and special concrete applications including architectural concrete
Reinforced concrete construction and recommendations on the vast array of types of constructed facilities
Specialized construction techniques, including the latest provisions of the 2006 International Building Code (IBC) on the design of structures in high seismicity zones
Design recommendations for high performance and proportioning of concrete structural elements by the latest ACI 318-08 Building Code
New materials, design of precast seismic bracing systems, and aesthetics of long-span bridge construction

Put 1200 Years of Experience to Work

This new edition contains ten new chapters on the state of the art in emerging areas of concrete construction and design engineering by leading experts. Each chapter examines its topic with detail and depth of discussion and culminates with an extensive list of selected references for the user to consult beyond the scope of the handbook. The thirty-seven contributors are national or international leaders in research, design, and construction with a combined professional practice of at least 1,200 years. The wealth of up-to-date knowledge they provide allows you to design constructed concrete structures that are vastly better, more efficient, and longer enduring.

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Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies

Santi Caballe, Fatos Xhafa, Thanasis Daradoumis, Angel A. Juan, “Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies”
Information Science Reference | 2009 | ISBN: 1605668826 | 410 pages | PDF | 8,1 MB

Over the last decade, the needs of educational organizations have been changing in accordance with increasingly complex pedagogical models and with the technological evolution of e-learning environments with very dynamic teaching and learning requirements. Architectures for Distributed and Complex M-Learning Systems: Applying Intelligent Technologies explores state-of-the-art software architectures and platforms used to support distributed and mobile e-learning systems. Containing research from leading international experts, this advanced publication provides useful references to support learning practices for academicians, researchers, and practitioners.

Table of Contents:
TENTATIVE
Section I: Architectures, Frameworks, and Platforms for Mobile Learning Systems

Chapter I: Developing Tools that Support Effective Mobile and Game Based Learning: The COLLAGE Platform

Chapter II: Designing an Architecture to Provide Ubiquity in Mobile Learning

Chapter III: MobiGlam: A Framework of Interoperability and Adaptivity for Mobile Learning

Chapter IV: SW-Architecture for Device Independent Mobile Learning

Chapter V: Context – Awareness and Distributed Events in Mobile Learning

Chapter VI: An Intelligent Mobile e-Learning Service Platform

Section II: Technological Advances in Support for Mobile Learning

Chapter VII: Mobile Web 2.0: Bridging Learning Contexts

Chapter VIII: Mobile Grids: an Enabling Technology for Next Generation M-Learning Applications

Chapter IX: Intelligent m-learning frameworks: Information and communication technology applied in a laptop environment

Chapter X: Integrating Ontology based Content Management into a Mobilized Learning Environment

Chapter XI: Ubiquitous Technology, Linking The Learner, The Workplace And The Education Institute

Chapter XII: ‘Intelligent Context’ for Personalised Mobile Learning

Section III: Application and Case Studies on Mobile Learning Practices

Chapter XIII: Schools in Action: Pedagogical Evaluation of COLLAGE, a Case Study on Mobile and Location Game Game-based Learning

Chapter XIV: Technical Evaluation of Wireless Communications in a Mobile Learning Architecture

Chapter XV: Supporting Mobile Access to VLE Resources through MobiGlam

Chapter XVI: Using Technology to Support Quality Learning for School Activities Involving Field Studies

Chapter XVII: Exploring Learning Identities through M-Learning: Learning Across Regional and Knowledge Boundaries

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A Visual Dictionary of Architecture

Francis D. Ching, “A Visual Dictionary of Architecture”
Wiley | ISBN: 0471288217 | 1996-11-28 | PDF | 320 pages | 28 mb

This book defines over 5,000 terms relating to architectural design, history, and technology. It is the only dictionary that provides concise, accurate definitions illustrated with finely detailed, hand-rendered drawings, each executed in Mr. Ching’s signature style.

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Bill Hylton: How to Design and Construct Furniture That Works

Design and construct furniture that works. A visual source of information ranging from furniture styles and dimensions to joinery. 100 classic furniture pieces are captured in highly detailed, exploded drawings. 

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Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology

Narrating Architecture: A Retrospective Anthology
Publisher: Routledge | ISBN: 0415374359 | edition 2006 | File type: PDF | 516 pages | 26,4 mb

Covering a wide range of topics of central importance to architecture today, the papers also address the related topics to which architecture and architectural studies are inextricably linked. The invited authors draw on sociology, philosophy, cultural studies and the sciences to round out the collection and highlight the breadth and vitality of modern architectural studies, offering perspectives from different disciplines as well as different corners of the globe.

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ELLE Decor – April 2010

ELLE Decor – April 2010
PDF | 177 pages | 61.4 Mb | English

ELLE Decor – complete guide to decorating, design, building, remodeling and gardening.

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Handbuch Brücken: Entwerfen, Konstruieren, Berechnen, Bauen und Erhalten

Gerhard Mehlhorn, “Handbuch Brücken: Entwerfen, Konstruieren, Berechnen, Bauen und Erhalten”
PSpringer 2007 | ISBN-10: 354029659X | 1084 pages | PDF | 27,8 MB

Das umfassende Handbuch stellt das Grund- und Fachwissen für den Entwurf, die Konstruktion, die Berechnung, die Bauausführung und die Erhaltung von Brückenbauwerken vor. Hervorragende Fachautoren aus Praxis und Wissenschaft beschreiben ihre Erfahrungen zu Tragwerkstypen, Berechnungs-, Herstellungs- und Bauausführungsverfahren sowie Bauüberwachungsmethoden. Dabei ist die Verwendung der üblichen verschiedenen Baustoffe berücksichtigt. Ein Einführungskapitel zeigt die Entwicklung des Brückenbaus vom Altertum bis heute, in einem weiteren Kapitel werden die Bauingenieuraufgaben im Brückenbau erläutert. Nicht nur für Bauingenieure und Studierende des Bauingenieurwesens, sondern auch für alle, die am Brückenbau und seiner Entwicklung interessiert sind, ist dieses Buch ein unverzichtbarer Begleiter.

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Modern Architectures in History

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By their very nature, construction projects can create seemingly endless opportunities for conflict. Written by a best selling author with over 40 years of experiences in the construction and general contracting business, Construction Process Planning and Management provides you with the necessary tools to save time and money on your construction project. In this book, Sid Levy provides valuable advice for avoiding or working through the common problems that are a result of the long-term nature of construction projects, failure to select a ?project delivery system? appropriate to the project, incomplete drawing and specifications, unrealistic scheduling, poor communication and coordination among participants, and inadequate contract administration. From project genesis, through design development to contractor and contract selection, on to construction oversight, punch list and successful project close-out, this book will point out those pitfalls to avoid and offer practical advice at every step along the way.

Administer the general construction process including solicitation of contractor?s qualifications (pre-qualify bidders), comparative analysis of bid packages, recommendation for contract award, contract document negotiation and documentation of job change orders.

Provide Project Planning and on-site management and coordination of all construction projects.

Ensure compliance of building construction rules and regulations and collaborate with chief engineers to monitor quality of construction.

Conduct technical/plan review of construction documents and submit written responses identifying required corrections or changes.

Design, implement and oversee Company standards for construction policies, practices and processes. 

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Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility

Architects Without Frontiers: War, Reconstruction and Design Responsibility
Publisher: Architectural Press | ISBN: 0750668407 | edition 2006 | File type: PDF | 224 pages | 13,7 mb

Through selected case studies, Charlesworth examines the role of architects, planners, urban designers and landscape architects in three cities following conflict – Beirut, Nicosia and Mostar – three cities where the mental and physical scars of violent conflict still remain. This book expands the traditional role of the architect from ‘hero’ to ‘peacemaker’ and discusses how design educators can stretch their wings to encompass the proliferating agendas and sites of civil unrest.

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Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader

Urban Planning Today: A Harvard Design Magazine Reader
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press | ISBN: 0816647569 | edition 2006 | File type: PDF | 160 pages | 11 mb

American cities’ penchants for single-use zoning and free-market development in pursuit of economic growth have produced problems that have long been recognized: grueling commutes and dependency on automobiles, social isolation, expensive public infrastructure, needless destruction of countryside. Eminent domain disputes rage on, despite recent Supreme Court decisions. Outdated public housing and failed single-function projects litter the landscape. Addressing these urgent problems and debating the public’s role inurban planning, the contributors to Urban Planning Today report on real projects in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Omaha, Portland, and Vancouver. They bring varying, and sometimes divergent, perspectives from backgrounds in urban design and development, city and regional planning, criticism, and law to bear on the mixed bag of results observed in these cities.

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