Components and Systems : Modular Construction. Design. Structure. New Technologies

Components and Systems : Modular Construction. 

Design. Structure. New Technologies

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. 

Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London Worlds Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood.

Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future.

The volume Components and Systems offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. 

The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs. Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion.
 

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Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics

Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics

A Perspective for the Future

384 pages | PDF | 7.4 Mb

First published two decades ago, the first edition of Handbook of Control Room Design and Ergonomics: A Perspective for the Future became a benchmark for the field. Current-day process control encompasses a new generation of computer systems with enormous capabilities, including new display technologies. 

These new and emerging technologies integrated with human factors create an interconnectivity that enhances organizational development. This new edition of the handbook addresses developments in the concept of "Control Rooms". It includes modern approaches that emphasize the role of people in learning for self-development and in shaping their work environments.
 

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Smart Materials & New Technologies

Smart Materials & New Technologies

For the Architecture & Design Professions

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Smart Materials & New Technologies For the Architecture & Design Professions (2005)

Smart Materials & New Technologies 

For the Architecture & Design Professions (2005)

Michelle Addington, Daniel Schodek

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. 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.

Two of the leading experts in this field - Addington and Schodek - have solved this

problem by incorporating all the relevant information of all the latest technologies

available to architects and designers in this one volume. They present materials by

describing their fundamental characteristics, and go on to identify and suggest how

these same characteristics can be exploited by professionals to achieve their design

goals. Here, the wealth of technical understanding already available in the materials

science and engineering literature is at last made accessible to a design audience.

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Components and Systems : Modular Construction. Design. Structure. New Technologies

Components and Systems : 

Modular Construction. Design. Structure. New Technologies

Gerald Staib

Construction systems reduced to the smallest possible number of identical elements have long been used by architects to build structures as well as dismantle and change them as quickly, efficiently, and economically as possible. Think of the architecture of the nomads, the Crystal Palace designed by the architect John Paxton for the London Worlds Fair of 1851, or the modern construction systems of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries in steel, concrete, and wood.Coupled with modern digital planning and production methods, modular precast construction systems that are adaptable for many combinations and capable of being combined with one other will play an increasingly important role in architecture in the future.The volume Components and Systems offers an in-depth and clearly organized presentation of the various types of precast building components from semifinished products to building with components, open and closed systems, and skeleton and panel construction all the way to spatial cell constructions. The systems are accompanied by detailed drawings and color photographs. Discussions of transporting and assembling the various systems round off the topic and make this book an indispensable practical companion.

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