Civil & Structural articles in the KEVOS Engineering library. 53 pages.
Engineering handbook for building physics: heat, light, sound and sustainability, covering open-cycle cooling: the overlooked alternative, light — the luminous...
Engineering handbook for building physics: heat, light, sound and sustainability, covering context and scope, heat — the thermal environment, the physics that...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering fuel comparison table, natural gas properties, gas combustion equation.
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering lifts, escalators, and travelators — vertical transportation, moving people...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering lightning protection, accommodation for building services, making space for the...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering pipe sizing: the mathematics that prevent disasters, pipe sizes, resistances,...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering the foundation — understanding the building services industry, how the...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering thermal conductivity of common building materials, surface and air space...
Engineering handbook for building services engineering systems handbook, covering ventilation system heating load, air conditioning — precision climate control,...
Engineering handbook for engineering history: bridges, canals and landmark construction, covering zuiderzee works, eiffel tower, erie canal.
Engineering handbook for engineering history: materials, structures and water systems, covering asphalt - 625 bce, leaning tower of pisa, roman aqueduct system -...
Engineering handbook for green building design, materials and performance, covering energy benchmarks in the supplied reference and system, primary energy: the...
Engineering handbook for green building design, materials and performance, covering context and scope, current-state problem, improvement method and result.
Engineering handbook for green building design, materials and performance, covering lead roofing: the environmental paradox, thatch and green roofs: the living...
Engineering handbook for green building design, materials and performance, covering renewable energy: a quick-reference decision framework, the wood-burning...
Engineering handbook for green building design, materials and performance, covering the moment of truth — commissioning and verification, why commissioning...
Engineering handbook for heating systems, burners and automatic controls, covering gas and oil controls — the safety net between you and disaster, the gas...
Engineering handbook for heating systems, burners and automatic controls, covering hot-water circulators: the heart of hydronic systems, circulator selection:...
Engineering handbook for heating systems, burners and automatic controls, covering how one technician's worst nightmare became the foundation for an unstoppable...
Engineering handbook for hvac design for education buildings, covering the engine room of school hvac, the outdoor air psychrometrics problem, the nominal...
Engineering handbook for hvac design for education buildings, covering context and scope, understanding the battlefield: what makes school hvac different, the...
Engineering handbook for hvac engineering fundamentals, loads and distribution, covering resistance of fittings: the data that sizes your pipes, steam systems —...
Engineering handbook for hvac engineering fundamentals, loads and distribution, covering context and scope, the language of the trade — symbols, units, and the...
Engineering handbook for hvac field design: fans, ducts, piping and controls, covering context and scope, technical challenge, fan basics — the heartbeat of...
Engineering handbook for hvac field design: fans, ducts, piping and controls, covering pump construction types, pump impeller types, pump body types.
Engineering handbook for hvac field design: fans, ducts, piping and controls, covering voltage and frequency effects on motor performance, belt drives — the...
Engineering handbook for low-energy cooling and passive building strategies, covering deep dive: desiccant cooling — two monitored systems, new frontiers:...
Engineering handbook for low-energy cooling and passive building strategies, covering context and scope, the hidden energy crisis inside your building, technical...
Engineering handbook for masonry structural design for low-rise buildings, covering the alternative path — allowable-stress design, chapter 7 & 8:...
Engineering handbook for masonry structural design for low-rise buildings, covering context and scope, the invisible structural system hiding in plain sight, the...
Engineering handbook for psychrometrics for hvac design and troubleshooting, covering the practitioner's resolution, your psychrometric toolkit — quick...
Engineering handbook for psychrometrics for hvac design and troubleshooting, covering context and scope, what is psychrometrics, and why should you care?, the...
Two machines that move in opposite directions and solve the same problem: making ground and height usable without disturbing what is already there.
Four milestones in spanning a gap and standing up, using materials strong in compression and nearly useless in tension.
Four milestones in which building height stopped being limited by structure and started being limited by economics.
Three milestones within two years, none of which invented a device. Each fixed an interface or made a hidden structure explicit, and each generated more value than most inventio…
Seven formal investigations between 1979 and 2010 that changed engineering practice across industries. In every one, the physical mechanism was known or knowable beforehand.
Two celebrated bridges and one destroyed one. The collapse taught the profession more than either success, and the mechanism is still widely taught wrongly.
Australian metropolitan desalination turned urban water supply from a hydrological problem into an energy and membrane one, and produced an asset with an unusual duty profile.
Four milestones showing what changed in civil engineering once dynamic behaviour could be analysed properly and construction method became the primary design driver.
Three projects, three constraints, one lesson: at civil scale the hard engineering is in measurement, power distribution and load path, not in the visible structure.
Four milestones in moving goods overland, and a reminder that for bulk freight before the railway, water beat road every time.
Four milestones from the civilisation that industrialised construction: a cement that sets under water, gravity supply at metropolitan scale, roads specified to their duty, and …
Four milestones in which urban water and waste became one system, and in which the profession learned that a treatment barrier can appear to succeed for sixty years.
Three milestones in which metal replaces masonry as the primary structural material, and in which someone tests it before building with it.
Three milestones producing the clearest example of fail-safe design anywhere in this set: a brake that applies itself when its own control system fails.
Statutory engineer registration began in 1907, the year the Quebec Bridge fell. How the four-pillar competence model works and what it requires of Australian engineers today.
Four milestones in which builders working without any theory of statics arrived, by observation and by failure, at a structural system of remarkable efficiency.