Built On Water

Author: Lisa Baker
Editor: Braun Publishing AG
ISBN: 9783037681787
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Architecture on the water has changed from a fringe niche market into an increasingly popular sector. This book offers a selection of projects that provides an overview of the multitude of concepts in this new field of design.

Building On Water

Author: Salvatore Ciriacono
Editor: Berghahn Books
ISBN: 1845450655
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A fundamental natural resource, water and its use not only reflect "modes of production" but also that complex interplay between resources and their exploitation (and domination) by various social agents, who in their turn are inevitably influenced by the abundance or rarity of water supplies. Focusing on scientific, social and economic issues from the 16th to the 19th century, the author, one of Italy's leading historians in this field, looks at the innumerable conflicts that arose over water resources and the environmental impact of projects intended to control them. Venice and Holland are undoubtedly the two most fascinating cases of societies "built on water," with the conquest of vast expanses of marshland - either inland or on the coast (the Dutch polders or the Venetian lagoon) – not only stimulating agricultural production, but also nurturing a deeply-felt relationship between the local populations and the element of water itself. The author rounds off his study by looking at the influence the hydraulic technology developed in Holland would have on many European countries (France, England and Germany in particular) and at questions raised by contemporaries about the environmental impact of agricultural progress and its effects upon the social-economic equilibria within the communities concerned.

Water Permeability Of Walls Built Of Masonry Units

Author: Cyrus C. Fishburn
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Floating Architecture

Author: Horst Stopp
Editor: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643909101
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Floating architecture is not only an issue for luxurious tourism but with the climatic change the building of floating structures becomes relevant for many areas in the world. In regions with rising sea levels, frequent flooding, or thawing permafrost, floating structures can be a solution to adapt existing settlement areas to these new conditions. The self-sufficient energy and supply systems required for floating settlements can also be used in rural areas with a lot of migration.This collection presents papers of conferences organized by the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning at Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg (BTU). (Series: Floating Architecture-Building at the and on the Water / Schwimmende Architektur-Bauen am und auf dem Wasser, Vol. 1) [Subject: Architecture, Environmental Studies]

Water Resources In The Built Environment

Author: Colin A. Booth
Editor: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118809114
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Water management is a key environmental issue in controlling offloods and reducing droughts. This book provides analysis of themain issues, offering solutions and describing good practice. Water Resources for the Built Environment: management issuesand solutions develops an appreciation of the diverse, complexand current themes of the water resources debate across the builtenvironment, urban development and management continuum. Theintegration of physical and environmental sciences, combined withsocial, economic and political sciences, provide a unique resource,useful to policy experts, scientists, engineers and subjectenthusiasts. By taking an interdisciplinary approach, waterresources issues and impacts on the built environment are presentedin the inventive and strategic setting of considering theconstraints of delivering potable water to an ever-demandingsociety who, at the same time, are increasingly aware of living inan urban landscape where excessive surface water creates a floodthreatened environment – hence, the need to portray a balancebetween ‘too little vs. too much’. This unique approach to the water resources debate presents amultifaceted collection of chapters that address the contemporaryconcomitant issues of water shortage and urban flooding andproffers solutions specifically for the built environment. The book is structured into three parts: the first part(Sections 2, 3 and 4) addresses management issues and solutions tominimise water shortages and provide water security for society;whilst the second part of the book (Sections 5 and 6) addressesmanagement issues and solutions to control excessive rainfall andminimise flooding impacts. The third part (Section 7)contextualises the issues of the earlier sections withininternational case studies from the developing world.

Sustainable Water Resources In The Built Environment

Author: Marilyn Waite
Editor: IWA Publishing
ISBN: 1843393239
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Sustainable Water Resources in the Built Environment focuses on the water aspects of sustainable construction in less economically developed environments.

Building With Water

Author: Zoë Ryan
Editor: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3034610947
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Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods. The theme of Building with Water is the use of water in architecture. It presents buildings that explicitly refer to water in their design and form. It establishes a typology of building by the water: residential structures, recreation facilities, industry and infrastructure, buildings for culture and art. The various design parameters are explored in four essays. Subsequently, twenty-two international projects are presented, organized according to their locations by a river, a lake or the sea. The authors’ concern is not to show luxurious buildings in privileged locations but rather presenting projects that seriously grapple with the main criterion of the location—namely, water—in an ecologically sustainable way and respond to it with their design. Wasser ist seit Jahren ein wichtiges Thema in Architektur und Städtebau. «Building with Water» thematisiert die Verarbeitung von Wasser im architektonischen Entwurf; es werden Bauten vorgestellt, die sich in ihrer Gestaltung und Form ausdrücklich auf Wasser beziehen. Eine Typologie des Bauens am Wasser wird erstellt: Wohnbauten, Verkehrs- und Industriebauten, Bauten für Kultur und Freizeit. Ebenso werden einleitend klassische Beispiele des Bauens am/im/auf dem Wasser gezeigt, wie etwa Château de Chenonceaux an der Loire, Falling Water in Pennsylvania von Frank Lloyd Wright oder das Salk Institute in La Jolla, Kalifornien, von Louis I. Kahn. Geordnet nach ihren Standorten am Fluss, See oder Meer, werden dann etwa 20 internationale Projekte vorgestellt. Es geht den Autoren nicht darum, luxuriöse Bauten an privilegierten Plätzen zu zeigen, sondern Projekte darzustellen, deren Entwurf sich ernsthaft und ökologisch verträglich mit dem Hauptkriterium des Standortes – nämlich Wasser – auseinandersetzt und sich gestalterisch darauf bezieht

Paving And Municipal Engineering

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Water Sewage Works

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Vols. 76 include Reference and data section for 1929 (1929- called Water works and sewerage data section)

Energy And Water Development Appropriations For 1990

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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Review Of The U S Department Of Agriculture S Fiscal Year 1990 Water Quality Initiative

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Department Operations, Research, and Foreign Agriculture
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Energy And Water Development Appropriations For 2003

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development
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The American Architect And Building News

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Engineering Record Building Record And Sanitary Engineer

Author: Henry Coddington Meyer
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Selected Water Resources Abstracts

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North Carolina Reports

Author: North Carolina. Supreme Court
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Cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina.

Annual Report Of The Water Commissioners Of The City Of Lowell To The Joint Standing Committee Of The City Council On Water Works Made

Author: Lowell (Mass.). Water Commissioners
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Building Technology Project Summaries

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Creating The Built Environment

Author: Leslie Holes
Editor: Routledge
ISBN: 1135818258
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We spend most of our lives in buildings and almost every building is unique. The purpose of this book is to explain what buildings are and to provide an integrated overview of how they are built and sustained. The book does not presume any specialist knowledge of buildings, seeking instead to explain why the different groups involved in designing, constructing, managing and occupying them follow certain procedures. It is particularly concerned with the generation and circulation of information between these groups. In taking this view, the book considers the recommendations of Sir Michael Latham's 1994 report Constructing the Team which called for better cohesion and communication between specialists in the construction industry.

Author: محيسن، زيدون
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Water-supply; irrigation; Nabataeans; Arabs; history.