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Featuring more than 290 full-colour photographs and 40 full-colour illustrations, "Landscaping with Stone" provides readers with everything they need to know about stonescaping--including how to incorporate stone into a garden design, choosing the right kind of stone and finding inspiration for your design. It also includes expert advice on basic stone-working techniques--from transporting to cutting and setting--as well as step-by-step instructions...
42) Kitchen and Bathroom Remodel: DIY Kitchen and Bathroom Design – Eco-Friendly Renovations, Home Re
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Are you struggling with outdated kitchen and bathroom designs?Overwhelmed by the cost of a complete remodel?Introducing Kitchen and Bathroom Remodel: DIY Kitchen and Bathroom Design – Eco-Friendly Renovations, Home Remodel Cost Estimates, Efficient Layouts, and Stylish Upgrades for Maximum Home Value. This comprehensive guide is your solution to revamping your space and boosting your home's value, all while staying within your budget.Create the...
43) Modern Bunkers
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The flickering oil lamp casting long shadows on the damp concrete walls. Canned food stacked high, the air thick with the metallic tang of fear and survival. This is the image of the bunker that often haunts our imagination, a relic of a Cold War past. But the modern bunker has shed its dusty skin, emerging as a symbol of something far more complex and intriguing. This book delves into the fascinating world of these subterranean sanctuaries, shattering...
44) Everything You Need to Know About Building the Custom Home: How to Be Your Own General Contractor
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This book helps the reader save a great deal of money by demonstrating how to manage the project and act as one's own contractor.
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When James Baldwin takes a new position with the B&O Railroad, he and Carolina decide to move their growing family from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains. Carolina's stepdaughter, Victoria, becomes enthralled with handsome Kiernan, an Irish railroad worker. But will the upper-class Baldwins even consider him as a suitor for their daughter? And when tensions rise among the workers, can James stop a destructive plan before it's...
46) Road rollers
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Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text lead young readers as they discover the purpose and parts of road rollers. The bright images in each book will show construction vehicles in action. Features include a table of contents, an infographic, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
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Tessa Young, an up-and-coming landscape architect who specializes in the design and creation of labyrinths, has immersed herself in the mythological, spiritual, and healing aspects of the elaborate structures. She also is searching for God and hoping to make sense of the nightmares that have plagued her since childhood. When Smith Chandler, an estranged colleague--with whom she'd half fallen in love a dozen times before catching herself every time--calls...
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Microorganisms are most likely to blame if your plumbing system has: • Discolored water • High copper, lead or iron concentrations in the water, or • Holes in pipe walls. When these types of problems occur, someone gets blamed for them - from the plumbing designer all the way to the municipal water utility manager. But, everyone involved in a plumbing system's development and operation can play a role in preventing the problems from occurring...
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In preparing this manuscript the author has had in mind the needs of young men having no technical instruction who are anxious to become proficient in the art of Plumbing. As a consequence each exercise is minutely described and illustrated; so much so, perhaps, that an experienced mechanic may find it too simple for skilled hands and a mature mind. But the beginner will not find the exercises too elaborately described and will profit by careful study....
50) Build Like The Big Primes: A Contractor's Guide to Building Your Business While Balancing Your Life
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As a small business owner, you may feel overwhelmed by serving your clients while also growing your company. If you are trying to figure out what expertise you need to promote and foster the growth of your company, this book will provide you with practical tools and tips to help you achieve your goals. From Finance, Operations, and Communications to Personal Branding, Marketing, and Human Resources, you'll learn the critical skills and resources that...
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El texto tiene dos finalidades, contribuir en el proceso de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de una manera didáctica y sencilla, con conceptos básicos de las estructuras en concreto reforzado, exponiendo un camino a seguir indicado en el Reglamento Colombiano de Construcción Sismo Resistente NSR-10 y enseñar sobre las diferentes formas de diseñar y revisar una viga, utilizando las tablas entregadas en los anexos, para que se profundice de manera...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición del certificado de profesionalidad "MAMD0209 - TRABAJOS DE CARPINTERÍA Y MUEBLE". Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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The Essential Guide is designed for anyone wanting to know the characteristics of timber, whether it be about trees in their native habitat, how they are harvested for the building and furniture industries, what types of timber are best used in commercial, residential and hobby projects, and what types of pests timber may be subject to.
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El libro expone los fundamentos teóricos y prácticos necesarios para el diseño, cálculo y disposición de los elementos de las instalaciones de fontanería y saneamiento. El planteamiento claro y detallado de la obra facilita su compresión a los aspirantes y a los que se inician en el ejercicio de la profesión. De igual modo, proporciona a los profesionales de este sector las herramientas convenientes para profundizar en los temas planteados...
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This book presents a unique view of the key issues for adopting BIM in construction projects from a pragmatic perspective. It provides an overview of the core ideas and issues distilled from various guidance documents and by dealing with the more mundane practical issues, facilitates an understanding of the more complex and important issues of processes, standards and protocols that need to be in place for the successful adoption of BIM in construction...
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You're on the shortlist! Now what? Your prospect knows your team looks good on paper, but is the team ready for the Selection Committee? In Winning AEC Interviews, Dean Lincoln Hyers and Pete Machalek of SagePresence help optimize your chances of winning over even the most challenging decision-makers. With relatable stories and practical tips, they show how everyone on the team-even those most uncomfortable with the concept of "selling" and presenting-...
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Libro especializado que se ajusta al desarrollo de la cualificación profesional y adquisición de certificados de profesionalidad. Manual imprescindible para la formación y la capacitación, que se basa en los principios de la cualificación y dinamización del conocimiento, como premisas para la mejora de la empleabilidad y eficacia para el desempeño del trabajo.
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After a long day of work framing a home for a client, Chester M. Mackey Sr. laid down in bed with a puzzled mind as to a better way of laying the trusses for the framework process. As he drifted off to sleep, he was visited by God, who revealed to him a plan to create what he now calls, The Mackey Clamp. This book, tells the story of the creation of the Mackey Clamp, and its journey to becoming a patented invention. This story serves as inspiration...
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In the United States alone, the annual construction of over one million new homes causes a very substantial drain on natural resources. Today, approximately 60 percent of the timber cut down in our country is used for building homes. Using alternative home building materials and creating a greener home are about creating better homes that are environmentally friendly, are less expensive in the long run, and create healthier occupants. Unfortunately,...
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The construction of housing, commercial property and infrastructure projects – roads, bridges, tunnels, railways, airports – for both the private and public sectors is one of the biggest industries in the world. It contributes around 10 per cent of world GDP, employs 7 per cent of the global workforce, and consumes around 20 per cent of the world’s energy. It is also a highly fragmented industry with very low profit margins and a high risk of...
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