Leadership, ethics, and project execution
This book carefully lays out in detail the requirements for leadership and ethical behaviour in the execution of successful construction projects. It explores the meaning of leadership from different viewpoints and articulates various techniques that are useful for leadership in construction project management.
As regards ethics, it distinguishes between personal and professional ethics and provides sound recommendations on how to navigate the conflicts between them. The book also walks the reader through ethical considerations from the business conduct point of view, looking at the distinct phases in a typical construction project. The authors, understanding that solutions to ethical dilemmas can be unclear at times, have also provided relatable case studies in their discussion of ethics.
Overall, the book creates a simple link between the theory and practice of project leadership. It is a one-stop shop for project managers looking to understand the leadership requirement of the role and how to navigate various ethical issues. It also has multiple recommendations for effective project management.
Environmental geotechnology: meeting challenges through needs-based instrumentation
Industries produce significant waste. Some industrial waste does not degrade harmlessly and continues to pose a challenge in terms of its safe treatment and disposal. Many countries in Europe and North America do not allow for manufacture of products that create such by-products. However, the world needs these products (bauxite is one example) and it is left to some of the developing countries to manufacture them.
The book is a detailed treatise on understanding such industrial wastes, their impact on the environment, their contaminant transport into soil and rock and the ensuing soil and rock response. It further expands into discussion on the potential for converting such industrial waste into inert, useful products.
Most importantly, this book is about innovative technology – it is a cornucopia of inventive laboratory-grown devices and environmental set-ups that have been devised by Professor Singh and his team.
It is frugal engineering at its best. This book inspires out-of-the-box thinking and focuses on dealing with a tricky issue the world would like to bury under the deep seas.
Highway planning, survey, and design
This is a book in five parts and covers a basic understanding of traffic engineering, pavement engineering, urban transportation planning, highway survey and geometric design of highways. It takes travel demand forecasting back to basics and provides a fairly simple explanation of all the relevant aspects of how traffic links through to pavement design.
There are multiple-choice questions scattered around the chapters to enable the reader to check and confirm their understanding on each topic. It then moves on to look at practical problems and solutions when dealing with survey errors.
This book is a comprehensive, but simplified, textbook for anyone who wants to understand the basics of transport planning and to understand how this affects the final engineer’s design solution for the pavement design of the highway. It takes readers through all the necessary steps in the engineering process from traffic numbers (existing and future) through to the pavement design. It also has a final section on car park design.
The ICE Library maintains one of the most comprehensive collections of civil engineering books in the world, including all titles from ICE Publishing (shown in bold below). New books acquired in the past 3 months include the following (* indicates e-book only).
| 2023 engineers fees | The Fees Bureau | £250.00 |
| Artificial intelligence in highway safety* | S Das | £130.00 |
| Building regulations, codes and standards: a guide for safe, sustainable and healthy development | M Key | £60.00 |
| Business resilience | M Kemp | £32.00 |
| Collision actions on structures* | A C Yong et al. | £84.99 |
| Computational fluid dynamics for wind engineering* | R Selvam | £99.00 |
| Construction and building automation: from concepts to implementation* | B Raphael | £120.00 |
| Describing construction: industries, projects and firms* | R Best and J Meikle (eds) | £140.00 |
| Design added value: how design increases value for architects and engineers* | O Akin | £79.99 |
| Designing intelligent construction projects* | M Frahm and C Roll | £54.95 |
| Earthworks: theory to practice – design and construction* | B Look | £150.00 |
| Essentials of hydraulics | P Julien | £39.99 |
| Fine sediment in open water: from fundamentals to modelling | T Van Kessel et al. | £175.00 |
| Fire safety law: a practical guide for leaseholders, building-owners and conveyancers* | V Ward | £34.99 |
| Fundamentals of construction claims: a 9-step guide for general contractors, subcontractors, architects and engineers | W McConnell | £95.00 |
| Geographic information systems for infrastructure asset management (Ciria C803) | H Pickard et al. | £120.00 |
| Ground characterization and structural analyses for tunnel design (2020)* | B Celada and Z Bieniawski | £42.99 |
| Handbook on tunnels and underground works: volume 2: construction – methods, equipment, tools and materials* | E Bilotta et al. (eds) | £170.00 |
| ICE companion to engineering management | W Hughes et al. | £65.00 |
| Integrated earthquake simulation* | M Hori et al. | £99.99 |
| Laboratory manual for geotechnical characterization of fine-grained soils | A Lutenegger | £79.99 |
| Modern structural design: a project primer for complex forms* | A Watts | £35.50 |
| On bridges: selected works of Man-Chung Tang | M Tang and J Guo | £115.00 |
| Plastic waste for sustainable asphalt roads* | F Giustozzi and S Nizamuddin | £190.00 |
| Principles of renewable energy engineering with worked examples | N Wijeysundera | £150.00 |
| Productivity in construction projects* | T Trauner et al. (eds) | £133.00 |
| Renewable energy systems for building designers: fundamentals of net zero and high performance design | D Gerring | £84.99 |
| Repurposing and reconfiguring buildings (Ciria C806) | P Egan et al. | £120.00 |
| Resilient building retrofits: combating the climate crisis* | S Sayce et al. (eds) | £34.99 |
| Soft ground tunnel design* | B Jones | £59.99 |
| Structural safety: theory and practice | A Mann | £95.00 |
| Supercharge me: net zero faster | E Lonergan and C Sawers | £12.99 |
| Supertall megatall: how high can we go? | Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture | £45.00 |
| Sustainable geo-technologies for climate change adaptation (Crest 2020)* | B Chaudhary et al. (eds) | £129.99 |
| The essential timber guide* | E Scott | £14.85 |
| The nexus: augmented thinking for a complex world | B Mau and J Ottino | £36.00 |
| The power of water: a primer for anyone entering the water industry | P Styles | £20.95 |
| Third Rilem international conference on concrete and digital fabrication: digital concrete 2022* | R Buswell et al. (eds) | £299.99 |
| Timber buildings* | S Hofmeister | £56.00 |
| Vibration testing and applications in system identification of civil engineering structures* | H Lam and J Yang | £105.00 |
All books can be borrowed through the library’s online catalogue at www.ice.org.uk/knowledge-and-resources/ice-library or from the ICE Members’ Resource Hub on the second floor of 1 Great George Street, London, SW1P 3AA from 9.15 a.m. to 5.30 p.m., Monday to Friday.
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