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In areas where bamboo is grown naturally and not at the expense of a
hardwood forest, the environmental benefit is great.
Around 30% more oxygen is produced over the same area as a forest. There are many soil
benefits and it uses much less of an area to grow sufficient bamboo to make a building than
a hardwood forest would require.
Hardwood forests are disappearing rapidly, and we all need to try to halt that as much as we can. Bamboo products can be often be used instead of wood.
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Building with Bamboo: A Handbook
This revised handbook brings together the practical experiences of engineers in the field and of research programs testing bamboo. The author shows how bamboo can be harvested, seasoned and jointed to form walls, doors and windows, roofs, floors, ceilings, roof trusses and bridges, and how to weave bamboo.
Bamboo: A Material for Landscape and Garden DesignBamboo and its many varieties are becoming ever more popular as a design material for landscapes, squares, and gardens. With its widely varying hardiness, height, and leaf structure, the grass can be cultivated under many different conditions, and because of its special physical characteristics it can also be used as a material in related domains such as architecture, furniture design, and flower arrangement.
The extensive technical section of the book describes the properties and habitat requirements of the plant, the breeding of varieties, and the methods of propagation. It then goes on to explore its use and significance in urban and natural settings. Authors with technical expertise in the relevant fields, including the director of the Oprins bamboo tree nursery, and striking color illustrations convey exhaustive technical and botanical information and examples of the creative use of bamboo, especially in urban and natural settings.
Tropical BambooWhen, in the dawn of the 19th century, Humboldt and Bonplant avidly toured the American surface, they included in their notes that the Quindio region in Colombia was practically covered with guadua trees. That is not surprising. The fertile, humid, well-drained soil in this zone is completely apt for these plants. Guadua wood is used for everything: landscaping, waterworks, columns, beams, gates, bridges, ladders, furniture, recipients. It's fast growth -up to 1.20m. in one day-and its uncommon flexibility make it an attractive material for this region's people's ingeniousness; they have deployed all of their creativity in using this tree. With more than 300 color photographs that depict the history and origin of the guadua bamboo, its natural production, and how it is used in housing construction and that of other spaces, this 176-page book is not only a well deserved elegy to the guadua but also a beautiful manner through which to make its sublime properties better known.
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Wood-polymers Composites (Woodhead Publishing in Materials)
Wood-polymer composites (WPC) are materials in which wood is impregnated with monomers that are then polymerized in the wood to tailor the material for special applications. The resulting properties of these materials, from lightness and enhanced mechanical properties to greater sustainability, has meant a growing number of applications in such areas as building, construction and automotive engineering. This important book reviews the manufacture of wood-polymer composites, how their properties can be assessed and improved and their range of uses. After an introductory chapter, the book reviews key aspects of manufacture, including raw materials, manufacturing technologies and interactions between wood and synthetic polymers. Building on this foundation, the following group of chapters discusses mechanical and other properties such as durability, creep behavior and processing performance. The book concludes by looking at orientated wood-polymer composites, wood-polymer composite foams, at waysof assessing performance and at the range of current and future applications. With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Wood-polymer composites will be a valuable reference for all those using and studying these important materials.
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Wood-polymer composites (WPC) are materials in which wood is impregnated with monomers that are then polymerized in the wood to tailor the material for special applications. The resulting properties of these materials, from lightness and enhanced mechanical properties to greater sustainability, has meant a growing number of applications in such areas as building, construction and automotive engineering. This important book reviews the manufacture of wood-polymer composites, how their properties can be assessed and improved and their range of uses. After an introductory chapter, the book reviews key aspects of manufacture, including raw materials, manufacturing technologies and interactions between wood and synthetic polymers. Building on this foundation, the following group of chapters discusses mechanical and other properties such as durability, creep behavior and processing performance. The book concludes by looking at orientated wood-polymer composites, wood-polymer composite foams, at waysof assessing performance and at the range of current and future applications. With its distinguished editors and international team of contributors, Wood-polymer composites will be a valuable reference for all those using and studying these important materials.
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Vegetable Plants and their Fibres as Building Materials
This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.
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This book examines the state-of-the-art on plants and fibres as building materials for low cost construction, emphasizing their use, properties, fabrication, new procedures and future developments. It makes available research results on new techniques for fibre reinforcement and their use in concrete, stabilized clay and other matrices. Procedures for making vegetable fibres and wood-based building materials in developing countries are also analysed.
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Understanding Historic Building Conservation
This book is the first in a series of volumes that combine conservation philosophy in the built environment with knowledge of traditional materials, and structural and constructional conservation techniques and technology: Understanding Historic Building Conservation Materials & Skills in Historic Building Conservation Structures & Construction in Historic Building ConservationThe series aims to introduce each aspect of conservation and to provide concise, basic and up-to-date knowledge for architects, surveyors and engineers as well as for commissioning client bodies, managers and advisors.In each book, Michael Forsyth draws together chapters by leading architects, structural engineers and related professionals to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of conservation work.The books are structured to be of direct practical application, taking the reader through the process of historic building conservation and emphasising throughout the integrative teamwork involved.This present volume – Understanding Historic Building Conservation – discusses conservation philosophy and the importance of understanding the history of a building before making strategic decisions. It details the role of each conservation team member and sets out the challenges of conservation at planning level in urban, industrial and rural contexts and in the conservation of designed landscapes. The framework of legislation and charters within which these operate is described and the book also provides guidance on writing conservation plans, explains the fundamental issues of costing and contracts for conservation and highlights the importance of maintenance.Eighteen chapters written by the experts present today’s key issues in historic building conservation: Timothy Cantell, Martin Cherry, Nigel Dann, Peter Davenport, Geoff Evans, Keith Falconer, Colin Johns, Jeremy Lake, Jonathan Lovie, Duncan McCallum, James Maitland Gard’ner, Martin Robertson, Adrian Stenning, David H. Tomback, Giles Waterfield, Philip Whitbourn, John WinterCover illustration shows a view of Bath from the East. Photograph © English Heritage / James O.Davies.Cover design by Workhaus
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This book is the first in a series of volumes that combine conservation philosophy in the built environment with knowledge of traditional materials, and structural and constructional conservation techniques and technology: Understanding Historic Building Conservation Materials & Skills in Historic Building Conservation Structures & Construction in Historic Building ConservationThe series aims to introduce each aspect of conservation and to provide concise, basic and up-to-date knowledge for architects, surveyors and engineers as well as for commissioning client bodies, managers and advisors.In each book, Michael Forsyth draws together chapters by leading architects, structural engineers and related professionals to reflect the interdisciplinary nature of conservation work.The books are structured to be of direct practical application, taking the reader through the process of historic building conservation and emphasising throughout the integrative teamwork involved.This present volume – Understanding Historic Building Conservation – discusses conservation philosophy and the importance of understanding the history of a building before making strategic decisions. It details the role of each conservation team member and sets out the challenges of conservation at planning level in urban, industrial and rural contexts and in the conservation of designed landscapes. The framework of legislation and charters within which these operate is described and the book also provides guidance on writing conservation plans, explains the fundamental issues of costing and contracts for conservation and highlights the importance of maintenance.Eighteen chapters written by the experts present today’s key issues in historic building conservation: Timothy Cantell, Martin Cherry, Nigel Dann, Peter Davenport, Geoff Evans, Keith Falconer, Colin Johns, Jeremy Lake, Jonathan Lovie, Duncan McCallum, James Maitland Gard’ner, Martin Robertson, Adrian Stenning, David H. Tomback, Giles Waterfield, Philip Whitbourn, John WinterCover illustration shows a view of Bath from the East. Photograph © English Heritage / James O.Davies.Cover design by Workhaus
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Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs
Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs comprises science-based, practitioner-friendly resources designed to increase HIV prevention professionals' capacity to conduct effective, culturally competent program planning, implementation, and evaluation. The content was informed by extensive needs assessment research, usability testing, and field testing in collaboration with HIV prevention professionals who are collectively utilizing a variety of prevention approaches, with culturally diverse populations, across a range of agency settings and community contexts. The guide shows practitioners everything they need to launch an effective program: from identifying program goals and objectives, to developing program models, to recruiting and retaining staff, and finally to conducting evaluations and reporting results. Throughout, "Tales from the Field" provide illuminating case studies from other successful programs implemented in a variety of cultural settings. The accompanying CD-ROM will contain worksheets, checklists, and other materials (all in Word format) that users can save and customize for their own needs.
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Tools for Building Culturally Competent HIV Prevention Programs comprises science-based, practitioner-friendly resources designed to increase HIV prevention professionals' capacity to conduct effective, culturally competent program planning, implementation, and evaluation. The content was informed by extensive needs assessment research, usability testing, and field testing in collaboration with HIV prevention professionals who are collectively utilizing a variety of prevention approaches, with culturally diverse populations, across a range of agency settings and community contexts. The guide shows practitioners everything they need to launch an effective program: from identifying program goals and objectives, to developing program models, to recruiting and retaining staff, and finally to conducting evaluations and reporting results. Throughout, "Tales from the Field" provide illuminating case studies from other successful programs implemented in a variety of cultural settings. The accompanying CD-ROM will contain worksheets, checklists, and other materials (all in Word format) that users can save and customize for their own needs.
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The World Market for Vegetable Materials Used Primarily for Plaiting Including Bamboo, Rattan, Reeds, Rushes, Oster, Raffia,
This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?
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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of cleaned or treated bird skins, feathers, and down including powder and wastes thereof? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?
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The World Market for Seats Made of Cane, Osier, Bamboo, and Similar Materials
This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?
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This report was created for strategic planners, international executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs for those countries serving the world market via exports or supplying from various countries via imports. I do so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models. On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the world market face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs vary from one country to another? Do exporters serving the world market have similar market shares across the importing countries? Which countries supply the most exports of furniture seats and their parts excluding chairs with rotating movements such as dental and barber chairs? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?
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Text Cases & Materials On Public Law And Human Rights
Building on the strengths of the Sourcebook on Public Law, Public Law and Human Rights:Text, Cases Materials has been comprehensively revised to take account of the radical programme of constitutional reform introduced by the Labour Government since 1997. This edition introduces a new chapter on devolution.There is full analysis of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its impact on police powers, freedom of expression and public order law. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is analysed, as is the Shayler litigation under the Official Secrets Act.The governments reform of the House of Lords warrants thorough discussion, as do proposals for further reform in the Wakeham Report, the Governments White Paper and the Report of the Public Administration Committee. Also included is material and analysis of reforms to the European Convention system and to domestic judicial review procedure.
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Building on the strengths of the Sourcebook on Public Law, Public Law and Human Rights:Text, Cases Materials has been comprehensively revised to take account of the radical programme of constitutional reform introduced by the Labour Government since 1997. This edition introduces a new chapter on devolution.There is full analysis of the Human Rights Act 1998 and its impact on police powers, freedom of expression and public order law. The Freedom of Information Act 2000 is analysed, as is the Shayler litigation under the Official Secrets Act.The governments reform of the House of Lords warrants thorough discussion, as do proposals for further reform in the Wakeham Report, the Governments White Paper and the Report of the Public Administration Committee. Also included is material and analysis of reforms to the European Convention system and to domestic judicial review procedure.
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Technological Dictionary of Plastics Materials
The 20th Century World has been transformed by the discovery and use of plastics. Today plastic materials are used in a wide variety of applications, from building and construction to packaging, from sports equipment to transportation. The vast number of plastics materials discovered over the past 40 years and their wide range of properties make them uniquely suited to a very broad spectrum of applications.This combination of the successful utilisation of the materials and the number of types of material available has led to the growth of an array of technical terms within the field. The Dictionary is intended as a reference tool for readers to negotiate these terms.The main part of the Technical Dictionary of Plastics Materials presents a comprehensive set of extended definitions of technical terms relating to all facts of the materials aspect of plastics technology. The definitions cover the nature of plastics materials, their composition (including relevent non-polymeric componants and additives, such as stabilisers, fillers, colourants, etc), their properties (including methods of property determination, testing, and evaluation), their applications, and their handling and behaviour in processing. In many cases reference is given to the relevant technical standards from the International (ISO), British (BSI), and American (ASTM) standards.In addition to the main part of the Dictionary containing the definitions there are two further sections. The first gives explanations of the abbreviated terms (letter symbols) used for the parent polymer and for the other constituents of plastics materials, while the second identifies the trade names of a number of plastics materials and their components.
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The 20th Century World has been transformed by the discovery and use of plastics. Today plastic materials are used in a wide variety of applications, from building and construction to packaging, from sports equipment to transportation. The vast number of plastics materials discovered over the past 40 years and their wide range of properties make them uniquely suited to a very broad spectrum of applications.This combination of the successful utilisation of the materials and the number of types of material available has led to the growth of an array of technical terms within the field. The Dictionary is intended as a reference tool for readers to negotiate these terms.The main part of the Technical Dictionary of Plastics Materials presents a comprehensive set of extended definitions of technical terms relating to all facts of the materials aspect of plastics technology. The definitions cover the nature of plastics materials, their composition (including relevent non-polymeric componants and additives, such as stabilisers, fillers, colourants, etc), their properties (including methods of property determination, testing, and evaluation), their applications, and their handling and behaviour in processing. In many cases reference is given to the relevant technical standards from the International (ISO), British (BSI), and American (ASTM) standards.In addition to the main part of the Dictionary containing the definitions there are two further sections. The first gives explanations of the abbreviated terms (letter symbols) used for the parent polymer and for the other constituents of plastics materials, while the second identifies the trade names of a number of plastics materials and their components.
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Statics and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction
Taking a visually-oriented approach, "Statics and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction, Third Edition", presents basic structural concepts in an easily understood manner. The authors introduce structural theory without relying on calculus. Instead using building examples and illustrations to supplement the book and introduce mathematically based material in a non-threatening way. This edition features many fully-worked example problems, a new supplemental CD-ROM, a section on retaining walls and clearer connections between written and visual elements. Extensive treatment of load tracing (paths) in an organized and heavily illustrated manner. Includes a CD containing additional problems with solutions for further practice. New section discussing the basic principles of concrete retaining walls using free-body diagrams and the equations of equillibrium. Building inspectors or people training to become inspectors or plans checkers.
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Taking a visually-oriented approach, "Statics and Strength of Materials for Architecture and Building Construction, Third Edition", presents basic structural concepts in an easily understood manner. The authors introduce structural theory without relying on calculus. Instead using building examples and illustrations to supplement the book and introduce mathematically based material in a non-threatening way. This edition features many fully-worked example problems, a new supplemental CD-ROM, a section on retaining walls and clearer connections between written and visual elements. Extensive treatment of load tracing (paths) in an organized and heavily illustrated manner. Includes a CD containing additional problems with solutions for further practice. New section discussing the basic principles of concrete retaining walls using free-body diagrams and the equations of equillibrium. Building inspectors or people training to become inspectors or plans checkers.
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Soft Materials
This detailed reference offers a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of soft materials, including synthetic polymers, complex fluids, and biological and food materials. The authors take an interdisciplinary approach and utilize an abundance of experimental and computational techniques to illustrate the relationship between the structure, dynamics, and function of soft materials. Divided into four sections on synthetic polymers, complex fluids, biomaterials, and food materials, the book supplies more than 1000 references, tables, and equations offering an excellent introduction to the study of soft material physics and utilization.
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This detailed reference offers a comprehensive overview of the science and technology of soft materials, including synthetic polymers, complex fluids, and biological and food materials. The authors take an interdisciplinary approach and utilize an abundance of experimental and computational techniques to illustrate the relationship between the structure, dynamics, and function of soft materials. Divided into four sections on synthetic polymers, complex fluids, biomaterials, and food materials, the book supplies more than 1000 references, tables, and equations offering an excellent introduction to the study of soft material physics and utilization.
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Smart Materials and Technologies in Architecture
Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design. Unlike typical architectural material, whose fixed properties are at best a compromise within a complex building system, these new materials have properties that can be designed to be changeable in response to changes in the surrounding environment. Smart materials can be are color changing materials such as photochromics that change color when subjected to light and heat, light-emitting electroluminescents; shape changing polymeric gels and shape memory alloys. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.
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Today, architects and designers are beginning to look toward developments in new "smart" or "intelligent" materials and technologies for solutions to long-standing problems in building design. Unlike typical architectural material, whose fixed properties are at best a compromise within a complex building system, these new materials have properties that can be designed to be changeable in response to changes in the surrounding environment. Smart materials can be are color changing materials such as photochromics that change color when subjected to light and heat, light-emitting electroluminescents; shape changing polymeric gels and shape memory alloys. However, these new materials have so far been applied in a diverse but largely idiosyncratic nature, because relatively few architects have access to information about the types or properties of these new materials or technologies.
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