Building Services Engineering – Smart And Sustainable Design For Health And Wellbeing

The field of civil engineering offers specific challenges to the higher education sector. Civil engineerings blend of management design and analysis requires people with a combination of academic and experimental knowledge and skill-based abilities.

Dams form an essential part of the infrastructure of many countries. Control of water, whether for agriculture, public or industrial supply, or flood alleviation is a prerequisite for social and economic development.

Geothermal heat is a viable source of energy and its environmental impact in terms of CO2 emissions is significantly lower than conventional fossil fuels. Shallow geothermal systems are increasingly utilized for heating and cooling of buildings and greenhouses. However, their utilization is inconsistent with the enormous amount of energy available underneath the surface of the earth.

From the second of biennial symposia, 54 papers cover embankment and slope stability, mining, tunneling, soil and structure interaction, dynamic analysis, and constitutive models. They also include applications and case studies of FLAC and three- dimensional FLAC. Among specific topics are a visco-elastic- plastic softening model and its application for solving static and dynamic stability problems in potash mining, the seismic modeling of sheet pile bulkheads for waterfront applications, calculating the collapse strains of floodable rockfills by means of finite difference formulated numerical simulations, the effect of embankment slope on the lateral response of piles, and the softening of coal on the design of yield pillars. Only authors are indexed. c. Book News Inc.

The 2 volume proceedings of the 9th ICE Conference on Coastal Structures and Breakwaters discusses the state of the art in analysis, design and construction of breakwaters and other types of coastal structures, including interaction between coastlines and structures, and vice versa.