Construction in Cities
eBook - ePub

Construction in Cities

Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Construction in Cities

Social, Environmental, Political, and Economic Concerns

About this book

Today's construction environment is more complex than any previous era. The possible impediments to a project's successful completion include not only "bricks and mortar" issues like material availability or curtain wall testing, but a broad array of concerns involving the economic, political, social, environmental, archeological, community, and hi

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Editor
  6. Contributors
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Table of Contents
  9. Chapter 1 Not just bricks and mortar
  10. Chapter 2 The challenges of constructing major tunnels in Central London
  11. Chapter 3 How things you can’t see can cause problems
  12. Chapter 4 The contest with groundwater for underground space
  13. Chapter 5 Mobilization for a tunnel project in an urban environment
  14. Chapter 6 Siting the North River wastewater treatment plant
  15. Chapter 7 Getting along with the existing infrastructure
  16. Chapter 8 Exterior wall renovation in urban areas
  17. Chapter 9 Community relations and urban design: the New York Psychiatric Institute case study
  18. Chapter 10 Building under a city street
  19. Chapter 11 We’ve got an historic landmark, now what do we do?
  20. Chapter 12 Turning archaeological problems into assets
  21. Chapter 13 Trees in urban construction
  22. Chapter 14 Building for high performance
  23. Chapter 15 Construction labor in the urban setting
  24. Chapter 16 Women in construction
  25. Chapter 17 University of Washington case study
  26. Appendix – The international perspective
  27. Index