Project Management and Construction Engg books

The present edition, an SEI collaboration with the PMI Scheduling Community of Practice, provides readers with a reference guide that is like having an experienced scheduling professional at hand.The book itself is laid out in a way that follows the phases of building a project schedule: from project planning to project definition and schedule design, …

CPM scheduling for construction : best practices and guidelines Christopher Carson, Peter Oakander Read More »

Description With most of the easy gas and oil reserves discovered and prices rebounding, companies are now drilling far offshore in extreme weather condition environments. As deepwater wells are drilled to greater depths, engineers and designers are confronted with new problems such as water depth, weather conditions, ocean currents, equipment reliability, and well accessibility. Offshore Structure …

[2019] Offshore Structures: Design, Construction and Maintenance Mohamed A. El-Reedy Read More »

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk: Practical Methods for Engineers, Ninth Edition, has taught reliability and safety engineers techniques to minimize process design, operation defects, and failures for 35 years. For beginners, the book provides tactics on how to avoid pitfalls in this complex and wide field. For experts in the field, well-described, realistic, and illustrative examples …

[9th Ed] Reliability, Maintainability and Risk. Practical Methods for Engineers David J. Smith Read More »

This edition includes the time-tested approach and topics of previous editions and introduces signifi – cantly new print and electronic features useful to learning about and successfully applying the exciting fi eld of engineering economics. Money makes a huge difference in the life of a corporation, an individual, and a government. Learning to understand, analyze, …

ENGINEERING ECONOMY Leland Blank , P. E. Texas & Anthony Tarquin Read More »

Foundations of Risk Analysis presents the issues core torisk analysis – understanding what risk means, expressingrisk, building risk models, addressing uncertainty, andapplying probability models to real problems. The author providesthe readers with the knowledge and basic thinking they require tosuccessfully manage risk and uncertainty to support decisionmaking. This updated edition reflects recent developments onrisk and …

Foundations of risk analysis Book by T. Aven Read More »

The first book of Failure Analysis Case Studies selected from volumes 1, 2 and 3 of the journal Engineering Failure Analysis was published by Elsevier Science in September 1998. The book has proved to be a sought-after and widely used source of reference material to help people avoid or analyse engineering failures, design and manufacture …

Failure Analysis Case Studies II Book by David R. H. Jones Read More »

Root Cause Failure Analysis provides the concepts needed to effectively perform industrial troubleshooting investigations. It describes the methodology to perform Root Cause Failure Analysis (RCFA), one of the hottest topics currently in maintenance engineering. It also includes detailed equipment design and troubleshooting guidelines, which are needed to perform RCFA on machinery found in most production …

Root Cause Failure Analysis Book by R. Mobley Read More »

For over 30 years, Reliability, Maintainability and Risk has been recognised as a leading text for reliability and maintenance professionals. Now in its seventh edition, the book has been updated to remain the first choice for professional engineers and students. The seventh edition incorporates new material on important topics including software failure, the latest safety …

Reliability, Maintainability and Risk by David Smith Read More »

The first European edition of Francis DK Ching’s classicvisual guide to the basics of building construction. For nearly four decades, the US publication BuildingConstruction Illustrated has offered an outstanding introduction tothe principles of building construction. This new European editionfocuses on the construction methods most commonly used in Europe,referring largely to UK Building Regulations overlaid with …

Building construction illustrated Book by Frank Ching Read More »

For two decades, Ben Gerwick’s ability to capture the current state of practice and present it in a straightforward, easily digestible manner has made Construction of Marine and Offshore Structures the reference of choice for modern civil and maritime construction engineers. The third edition of this perennial bestseller continues to be the most modern and …

Construction of Offshore Structures Book by Ben Gerwick Read More »

Following on from the previous joint publications, this new edition of EAU 1996 contains the safety concept with partial safety factors in accordance with the Eurocodes or the European prestandards as well as with the corresponding German standards and prestandards, while taking into account the National Application Document (NAD). This revised version follows the goal …

Recommendations of the Committee for Waterfront Structures Harbours and Waterways EAU 2004 Read More »

The Seventh Edition of Construction Planning, Equipment, and Methods, follows in the footsteps of the previous editions by providing the reader with the fundamentals of machine utilization and production estimating in a logical, simple, and concise format. Our text features expanded coverage of building in today’s global environment. Hundreds of photos and illustrations have been …

Construction planning, equipment and methods Book by R. Peurifoy [7th Edition] Read More »

Design and Construction of Silos and Bunkers Book by Ernest C. Harris and Sargis S. Safarian

The chance of being claimed against is now a major risk factor for every building designer, engineer, quantity surveyor and project manager. Apart from the cases that go to court, many other claims are settled before they reach that stage. The cost of insurance to meet claims is now a substantial component of every practice’s …

Avoiding Claims in Building Design: Risk Management in Practice Book by Malcolm Taylor Read More »