Basic Remodeling Techniques


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This comprehensive guide covers financing through to design and construction. Whether you're installing a skylight or remodeling your entire house, this helpful, lavishly illustrated book gives you step-by-step instructions that make each task clear and easy to follow. Save money with good design, solid plans, and sound, professional remodelling techniques.




Remodel This!


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Providing checklists, indexes, and technical information, a guide to home renovation for women features guidelines for a range of dwelling types and includes coverage of everything from managing a budget and proofing a contract to working with designers and negotiating male-dominated arenas. Original. 25,000 first printing.




Shield Construction Techniques in Tunneling


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Shield Construction Techniques in Tunnelling presents the latest on this fast, environmentally-friendly and relatively safe construction technique, reflecting on its technical risks and challenges as seen in China. Sections introduce the type of shields, the history of the technique, shielding principles, selection, management, the latest techniques in operation, consider engineering cases, discuss construction in gravel, soft-soil, composite, and rock strata, and present video clips of construction that are accessible through QR codes embedded in the text. The book combines theory and practical experience, giving the reader unique insights into shield equipment and construction techniques. The shield tunneling technique is being used very widely, particularly in China, which is building urban-rail transit systems at an unparalleled scale and speed. The use of tunneling-shields provides a fast, relatively-safe, and ecologically-friendly method for the construction of tunnels. However, a number of incidents have shown the risks involved in tunnelling through geologically complex areas. - Gives the principles and practice of shield construction techniques, including shield selection and operation - Demonstrates the latest technologies in shield construction that can be applied in practice - Reflects on the technical risks and challenges of shield construction, based on extensive use of the technique for tunnel construction in China - Discusses challenges in construction in gravel, soft-soil, composite and rock strata - Provides engineers with applicable insights into shield equipment and construction techniques




No-regrets Remodeling


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In No-Regrets Remodeling, the editors of Home Energy magazine show how new technologies and building practices can turn typical remodeling projects into opportunities for long-term benefits that add comfort and value to a home. Using over 100 detailed illustrations, the book describes how to avoid recurring problems including drafts, overheating, mold and mildew, peeling paint, rotting roofs, and indoor air pollution. Guides to selecting heating, cooling, and ventilation equipment, water heaters, insulation lights, and windows demonstrate the advantages of integrating energy efficiency into any remodeling plan.




Renovating & Restyling Vintage Homes


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Homeowners can learn how to identify and economically add improvements to older homes without getting bogged down in never-ending repairs. This comprehensive guide teaches readers how to fix roofs, doors, windows, structural problems, plumbing and bathrooms for the least amount of money and the greatest reward.







Radon-Resistant Construction Techniques for New Residential Construction


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Provides homeowners and builders with a basic understanding of operating principles and installation details of radon-resistant new home construction. Includes: soil depressurization, mechanical barriers, site evaluation, planned ventilation, and much more. Illustrations. Also includes a report by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), "Home Buyer's and Seller's Guide to Radon."




Specialty Construction Techniques for Dam and Levee Remediation


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Dam and levee remediation has become more prevalent since the start of the twenty-first century. Given the vastness and complexity of the infrastructures involved, keeping up with maintenance needs is very difficult. Major surges in repair are usually triggered by nature‘s wake-up calls, such as hurricanes, floods, and earthquakes. The challenge ha




Stability Assessment for Underground Excavations and Key Construction Techniques


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This book examines how the state of underground structures can be determined with the assistance of force, deformation and energy. It then analyzes mechanized shield methods, the New Austrian tunneling method (NATM) and conventional methods from this new perspective. The book gathers a wealth of cases reflecting the experiences of practitioners and administrators alike. Based on statistical and engineering studies of these cases, as well as lab and field experiments, it develops a stability assessment approach incorporating a stable equilibrium, which enables engineers to keep the structure and surrounding rocks safe as long as the stable equilibrium and deformation compliance are maintained. The book illustrates the implementation of the method in various tunneling contexts, including soil-rock mixed strata, tunneling beneath operating roads, underwater tunnels, and tunnel pit excavation. It offers a valuable guide for researchers, designers and engineers, especially those who are seeking to understand the underlying principles of underground excavation.