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  title info:
    title: Civil engineering
    sub title: a very short introduction
  name:
    name part: Muir Wood, David
    name part: 1949-
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2012
    edition: First edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xiv, 143 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
  abstract: Civil engineering produces the structures of all human settlements worldwide and is a vital discipline for many aspects modern life, underlying housing, transport, and our major areas and buildings related to work, study, and leisure. In this Very Short Introduction, David Muir Wood demonstrates the nature and importance of civil engineering not only in the history of civilization and urbanization, but its range of facets today, and its challenges for the future. Beginning with the challenge of creating a settlement on a deserted island, which sets out the problems that civil engineers need to solve, he looks at the social and environmental considerations as well as the science, technology, and craft of building bridges, tunnels, houses, and areas of recreation. He highlights the lives of some major civil engineers, including Brunel and Bazalgette, considers the challenges of managing water and energy, and looks at our increasing sensitivity to building and the environment.
  table of contents: List of illustrations -- Introduction -- Materials of civil engineering -- Water and waste -- 'Directing the great sources of power in nature' -- Concept, technology, realization -- Robustness -- Civil engineering : looking forward -- Sources -- Further reading -- Index.
  note: David Muir Wood.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-135) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  subject:
    topic: Civil engineering
  classification: TA145 .M85 2012
  classification: 624
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Very short introductions ; 331
  identifier: 019957863X
  identifier: 9780199578634
  identifier: 2012472565
  record info:
    record content source: BTCTA
    record creation date: 120322
    record change date: 20151202172612.0
    record identifier: in00002807062
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng