Associations
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Affordable Housing
Civil Engineering
Construction Journals
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Construction Products and Services
- Construction Weblinks
Posted by the construction law firm, ThielenReid & Priest
LLD, this large, well-organized site is designed to serve the
practicing contractor and construction project manager. Contains
industry and project bid news, career information, publications,
statistics, legal information, organizations and trade groups,
and articles on current issues. Links to other sites are annotated.
- Blue Book of Building and
Construction
- Canadian Institute
for Research in Construction
Excellent collection of well-researched construction product evaluations.
- Canadian Sheet Steel Building
Institute (CSSBI)
Offers many free, full-text, illustrated fact sheets and installation
manuals in pdf format for the metal roofing and cladding contractor.
Available in English and French.
- Construction.com
- Building Materials by McGraw-Hill Sweets
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Construction Research
- Building Materials and
Wood Technology
Click on "Publications" to access free, full-text articles
by author, title, or keyword.
- Canadian Institute
for Research in Construction
Especially valuable for its extensive and detailed analyses of
construction products and fire suppression equipment. To see the
product evaluations, click first on an area of interest (such
as Building Envelope, Indoor Environment, etc.); then "Materials
Evaluations;" then "Evaluated Products." Browse
through the alphabetical product index, the manufacturer's index,
or search by keyword.
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Canadian
Mortgage and Housing Corp. (CMHC) High-Rise and Multiples Innovation
Group
Useful articles on constructing, operating, and maintaining high-rise
and apartment buildings. Also contains information on sustainable
design.
- Commission for Architecture
and the Built Environment (CABE) (UK)
Dedicated to improving architecture and public spaces through
sustainable development, CABE offers free, full-text publications
designed to assist architects and developers in creating a more
humane built environment.
- National Association of Home
Builders Research Center (NAHB)
- National
Institute of Standards and Technology Building and Fire Research
Lab (BFRL)
"3500 document abstracts and complete publications produced
by and for BFRL staff since 1993."
- Private-Public Partnership
for Advancing Housing Technology (PATH)
- U.S. Army Cold Regions Research Engineering Laboratory (CRREL)
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Construction Safety
- Electronic Library of Construction
Occupational Safety and Health (ELCOSH)
Maintained by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and
Health (NIOSH), this site provides up-to-date information on the
dangers of building materials, solvents, finishes, gases, and
fumes commonly encountered by construction workers. It also offers
advice on safety equipment and practices. Available in both English
and Spanish.
- National Institute for
Occupational Safety and Health NIOSH
- National
Personal Protective Technology Laboratory
Offers information and research on standards and usage of respirators
and other personal safety equipment. Posted by NIOSH, this site
is available in both English and Spanish.
-
OSHA
Construction Safety Subject Index
This alphabetical A-Z topic index provides the easiest method
of obtaining access to the enormous OSHA database. Users may also
search this web site by entering terms into the search box provided.
- Caterpillar Company Safety Media and Literature
This media and literature collection demonstrates safe operating and maintenance procedures for anyone working in, around, or on machines. The collection includes a wide variety of videos and multimedia as well as literature that includes excerpts from the Operation & Maintenance Manuals, handy checklists, and Toolbox Talks.
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Energy
- African Wind Energy
Association
- European Wind Energy
Association
- International Atomic Energy
Agency
- National Ignition Facility
& Photon Science
-
National Solar Thermal Test Facility
- Nuclear Energy Institute
- World Nuclear
Association
- U.S. Energy
Dept., Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Network (EERN)
- Danish Wind Industry Association: Guided Tour on Wind Energy
Available in English, Danish, German, Spanish, and French, this
site provides an extensive overview of wind turbines, of wind
energy history, and of the Danish wind energy industry. The Guided
Tour provides well-illustrated descriptions of current projects
in Europe, while the Reference section contains the tables, formulas,
and scientific concepts encountered in the design of wind energy
installations. Links to equipment manufacturers offer glimpses
of the latest technology. See the Publications section for full-text
articles and reports.
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Environmental Engineering
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Internet Portals
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Land Use
- Brookings Institution
Free, full-text scholarly articles on sustainable development,
affordable housing, and urban land use by a foremost public policy
research organization.
- Land Use Controls Site
Full-text searchable database of more than 400 documents dealing
with the subject of environmental land use controls: a legal instrument
used to protect people and the surrounding environment from sites
containing residual contaminants following environmental clean-up.
- Lincoln Institute of Land
Policy
Free, searchable, full-text articles - as well as abstracts of
nearly 400 working papers on a wide variety of land usage and
development topics from around the world.
- Urban Land Institute
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Laws, Codes, and Regulations
- Accessibility
Guidelines for Buildings and Facilities
Features "technical requirements for accessibility to buildings
and facilities by individuals with disabilities under the Americans
with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990."
- Code of Federal
Regulations
- Findlaw
Extensive, searchable database of U.S. state and federal laws,
legal rulings, sample legal forms, contract advice, business law,
and legal reference.
- General Laws
of Massachusetts
- Massachusetts
Laws, Regulations, and Rulings
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Massachusetts
Wastewater Management and Title V Publications (DEP)
Full-text guides, regulations, and forms for wastewater and septic
system inspection and management.
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Local Maps
- Boston Redevelopment
Authority (BRA)
Aerial photographs and color-coded land use maps. Select by neighborhood
or search by address.
- City
of Cambridge Map Library
Excellent collection of street; block; zoning; assessor's; water
distribution; sewer and drain; census; and voting maps.
- Google Earth
Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
- Massachusetts Geographic Information System (MassGIS)
GIS data, maps, and aerial photos of Massachusetts land, wind, and water resources.
- TerraServer USA
Satellite and aerial photos.
- U.S. Geologic Service (USGS) Publications Warehouse
Bibliographic citations for over 70,000 publications with full product and thematic map content for over 40,000 publications.
- USGS Science Center for Coastal and Marine Geology
Bulletins, circulars fact sheets, and reports on the underwater areas between shoreline and deep ocean off the East Coast, the Gulf of Mexico, parts of the Caribbean, and Great Lakes.
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Professional Ethics
- Engineering Ethics
This informative web site posted by Texas A&M University contains
numerous case studies, essays, reports, and current news items
concerning ethics in the engineering fields. Links to other ethics
web sites are included.
- Online Ethics Center for
Engineering and Science
Highly recommended for both faculty members and students, this
extensive collection of essays, problems, and case studies is
of especial value to teachers. Scholarly in both its writing and
its scope, it offers not only materials sufficient for the teaching
of an ethics unit, but also essays in educational methodology
and ethics research.
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Project Finance
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Project Management
- Proposal
Writing and Government Contracting
Posted courtesy of Deborah Kluge, Independent Consultant , this
extensive and informative site offers advice and checklists in
the areas of proposal writing, requests for proposals (RFPs),
grant writing, government bid contracting, and international business
opportunities.
- Project Management for
Construction: Fundamental Concepts for Owners, Engineers, Architects,
and Builders
The full text of a book by Prof. Chris Hendrickson, Dept. of Civil
and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie-Mellon University. First
published in 1989, this third edition (2003) has been posted
on the World Wide Web as a service to construction management
professionals and students alike. Useful as a course text or as
an up-to-date reference work.
- Guidelines for
a Successful Construction Project. (Formerly The Construction
Industry Survival Kit.)
Excellent and authoritative CPM guidelines jointly posted in pdf
format by the American Subcontractors Association, the Association
of General Contractors, and Associated Specialty Contractors,
Inc.
- Wideman Comparative
Glossary of Project Management Terms
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Real Estate
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Statistical Information
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Sustainable Construction and Development
- Building Green.com
- European Academy
of the Urban Environment
Describes cases of good practice in sustainable development in
the European Union through the online test version of its SURBAN
database. This text-only, no graphics, database may be both browsed
and searched.
- Partnership for Advancing Technology
in Housing (PATH)
- Pedestrian and Bicycling Information Center
Sponsors two related web sites devoted to alternative modes of
urban transportation. Walkinginfo.org
offers practical design methods on improving pedestrian access
to city streets. This site also directs users to case studies,
reports, exemplary plans, and funding sources. Bicyclinginfo.org
provides information on bicycling lanes, facilities, rails-to-trails
projects, and full-text reports.
- Sustainable
Building Sourcebook
- U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Construction and Demolition
Debris
- U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Green Buildings
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Water
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Transportation
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