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Building Maintenance & Construction - Tools and Maintenance Tasks
Clifford Rutherford · University of Hawaiʻi Maui College
Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks introduces and develops knowledge of basic building maintenance tools and materials, applied skills and techniques, industry health and safety standards, and preventive maintenance and troubleshooting practices required by employers for entry-level positions in the building trades and facilities maintenance fields.
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Fundamentals of Building Construction Management
John Messner · The Pennsylvania State University
In the contents: 1.05: Introduction to Construction Cost Estimating · 1.23: Introduction to Lean Construction · 1.24: The Future of the Construction Industry
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LibreTexts Construction Guide
Delmar Larsen · University of California, Davis
This is an older version of the Construction Guide, built for the time when there were individual Sandboxes. The current guide can be found at https://chem.libretexts.org/Courses/Remixer_University/Construction_Guide_for_LibreTexts.
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LibreTexts Construction Guide 3e
LibreTexts
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Exploring Movie Construction and Production
John Reich · Genesee Community College
In the contents: 01: Unit I- Construction
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Building Foundations of Construction Safety
Jenny Huang · Southern Illinois University Carbondale
In the contents: 02: Recommended Practices for Safety and Health Programs in Construction · 03: Fall Protection in Construction · 3.05: Examples of Fall Protection Requirements for Certain Construction Activities
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Construction Contracting - Business and Legal Principles
Stuart H. Bartholomew · Virginia Polytechnic & State University
In the contents: 1.01: Interface of the Law with the Construction Industry · 1.05: OwnerConstruction Contractor Prime Contract Red Flag Clauses · 1.22: Construction Contract Claims
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Construction Guide for LibreTexts 2e
LibreTexts · LibreTexts
This construction guide will help you get started with the LibreTexts platform and provide faculty with the basic skills to start building customized textbooks for their course needs.
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Business Law I Sourcebook (Mac Kelly) - UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Matthew L. Mac Kelly · Concordia University Wisconsin
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Exploring Movie Construction & Production: What’s so exciting about movies?
John Reich · Open SUNY · 2017
Exploring Movie Construction & Production contains eight chapters of the major areas of film construction and production. The discussion covers theme, genre, narrative structure, character portrayal, story, plot, directing style, cinematography, and editing. Important terminology is defined and types of analysis are discussed and demonstrated. An extended example of how a movie description reflects the setting, narrative structure, or directing style is used throughout the book to illustrate building blocks of each theme. This approach to film instruction and analysis has proved beneficial to increasing students' learning, while enhancing the creativity and critical thinking of the student.
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Construction Contracting: Business and Legal Principles, Second Edition
Stewart Bartholomew · Virginia Tech Libraries · 2002
This introduction to construction contracting as it applies to typical, every-day situations explains “theoretical” ideas in terms of what really happens in practice. It emphasizes the more common case law holdings and industry customs that help avoid troublesome legal issues during the completion of a project. Instructors reviewing or adopting this book are encouraged to register at https://bit.ly/interest_construction_contracting Any derivatives of this work must comply with the use and attribution requirements of the Creative Commons license, and include the following statement, “This material was previously published by Pearson Education, Inc.” Construction Contracting, 2nd edition is an "out of print," rights-reverted book for which the author's estate has given permission for digitization and release under a CC BY NC SA 4.0 license. It was previously published in 2002 by Pearson ISBN 1-13-091055-4. The copyright page has been edited and graphics redrawn. A new cover, dedication, acknowledgements, how to adopt this book, and author biography have been added, and the table of contents has been revised. As the book has been reformatted, the original back of the book index is not included.
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Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks
Clifford Rutherford · University of Hawaii Manoa · 2018
Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks introduces and develops knowledge of basic building maintenance tools and materials, applied skills and techniques, industry health and safety standards, and preventive maintenance and troubleshooting practices required by employers for entry-level positions in the building trades and facilities maintenance fields.
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College Algebra and Trigonometry- Expressions, Equations, and Graphs
Holly Carley and Ariane Masuda · New York City College of Technology
This page is under construction. The thumbnail was courtesy of https://www.freepnglogos.com/pics/under-construction. This is a work in early stages which is a reworking of College Algebra with Trigonometry. It is intended to differ in treatment from other texts on the subject.
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System Design for Uncertainty
Franz S. Hover & Michael S. Triantafyllou · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text covers the design, construction, and testing of field robotic systems, through team projects with each student responsible for a specific subsystem. Projects focus on electronics, instrumentation, and machine elements. Design for operation in uncertain conditions is a focus point, with ocean waves and marine structures as a central theme. Topics include basic statistics, linear systems, Fourier transforms, random processes, spectra, ethics in engineering practice, and extreme events.
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Introduction to Childhood Studies
Susan Eliason · Bridgewater State University
The book supports a speaking-intensive course that introduces you to key concepts in the study of childhood from multidisciplinary perspectives. Your reading and listening will allow you to examine the historical and socio-cultural constructions of “the child” and childhood, exploring topics such as child development, cultural notions of adolescence, children as social agents, children’s rights, and challenges facing children in both local and global contexts.
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Chem 231A: Methods of Organic Synthesis
Jared Shaw · University of California, Davis
This is a university-level chemistry course that focuses on the techniques and strategies used to build organic molecules, emphasizing the construction of carbon frameworks and controlling stereochemistry through various synthetic methods in organic chemistry; essentially, it teaches students how to plan and execute complex organic syntheses.
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Fundamentals - Drawings and Specifications
BC Campus · LibreTexts
Some of the most important documents used in the workplace are the technical drawings, diagrams, and schematics that specify how fabrication and construction tasks will be carried out, or describe the composition and assembly of equipment. One of the essential skills for anyone involved in a trade is the ability to correctly interpret drawings.
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Structural Analysis
Felix Udeyo · Temple University
This text is intended to teach students the methods and techniques for the analysis of structures. A sound knowledge of structures is a prerequisite for their proper design and ensures the structural integrity of civil engineering infrastructural systems. This textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduates studying civil engineering, construction engineering and management, and architecture. It is also useful for construction professionals seeking licensure in their field of practice.
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Communications 256: Intercultural Communication
Tammera Stokes Rice · College of the Canyons
In the contents: 1.03: Social Construction of Cultural Identity
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Signals and Systems
Richard Baraniuk et al. · Rice University
In the contents: 10: Sampling and Reconstruction · 10.03: Signal Reconstruction · 10.04: Perfect Reconstruction