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'Car Park Designers' Handbook' looks at multi-storey car parks as being utilitarian constructions. The authors do not see their design as being a finite art but as a compromise between the motorist's spatial desires and the practical need to achieve economy of construction.
- Scope - Responsibilities - Statutory requirements - Developing a long term inspection and maintenance strategy - Inspections and structural appraisals - Maintenance, repair and upgrading or replacement - Health and safety of personnel on site - Reporting the structural appraisal - References - Appendix: Structural deterioration, design deficiencies and safety
This work deals with the civil engineering heritage of London and the Thames Valley. The development of London has attracted the design and construction skills of a range of eminent civil engineers and contractors.
Recommendations for the Inspection, Maintenance and Management of Car Park Structures, Second edition provides technical guidance, and establishes a benchmark for good practice for car park owners, operators, and engineering consultants.
Over the past twenty years there has been considerable improvement and new information in the design of port and berth structures. This handbook reflects the lastest progress and developments in navigation safety, port planning and site selection, layout of container, oil and gas terminals, cargo handling, berth design and construction, fender and mooring principles. It presents guidelines and recommendations for the main items and assumptions in the layout, desing and construction of modern port structures, and the forces and loadings acting on them. The book provides an evaluation of different designs and construction methods for port and berth structures, and recommendations given by the different international harbour standards and recommendations. Practising harbour and port engineers and students will find the handbook an invaluable source of information.
The river and estuary environment pose a range of new and increased risks to the engineer. To complete works successfully the engineer needs to manage these risks such that construction is done safely and to specification, and this book provides guidance in risk assessment and management techniques.
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