sustainable maintenance environments construction

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Building the Green Economy: Success Stories from the Grassroots

2 reviews
Kevin Danaher, Shannon Biggs, ...

Polipoint Press, 2007

Empowering and exciting
This was one of my favorite books of 2007. The book offers a variety of accessible, engaging tales from the front lines. From worm poop to the Boston Tea Party, the authors do a great job of telling stories that leave the reader feeling refreshed, educated, and heartened. Whether you're a seasoned activist or just getting involved, this book offers a variety of resources and success stories. ...

Building a Successful Network Marketing Company: The Systems, the Products, and the Know-How You Need to ...

6 reviews
Angela Moore

Prima Lifestyles, 1998

A MUST for any suppliers to Network Marketing Companies.
Angela Moore's book, Building a Successful Network Marketing Company is a MUST for anyone who is, or is thinking of, supplying products or services to Network Marketing companies. Understanding the critical components of how successful network marketing companies operate as well as identifying the characteristics of a sound, well run company is crucial to more effectively screening ...

Quality Planning and Analysis: From Product Development through Use

4 reviews
Frank M. Gryna

McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math, 2000

Practical Methods for Administering Quality Systems
20 years before anyone in the US heard of ISO 9000, Juran proposed the same ideas. He described comprehensive, documented quality management systems that were backed up by performance metrics and quality audits. Juran also pioneered quality circles and teams long before these ideas became cliche. I find Juran immensely useful in my quality practice. This book remains one the standard ...

Grabbing Lightning: Building a Capability for Breakthrough Innovation

3 reviews
G. C. O'Connor

Jossey-Bass, 2008

Compelling glimpse of the future - and tools to BE THERE
Building on the insightful foundation of Radical Innovation, the authors go from "innovating successfully" to "innovating sustainably, reliably, predictably". Far from a dry, academic set of theories and observations, Grabbing Lightning is very actionable in your organization. A key task is enlisting support at several levels, this book is approachable and understandable, providing a common ...

Sustainable Landscape Construction: A Guide To Green Building Outdoors

3 reviews
J. William Thompson, Kim Sorvig

Island Press, 2000

One of the most comprehensive books on sustainable landscape construction
Time has changed. A few years ago, few people knew about sustainable design and construction, green buildings or LEED. Today, sustainable design and construction has gone mainstream. How do we know? We actually have clients asking us to design a LEED certified building or do a sustainable landscape design. Architecture and landscape architecture are knowledge-based, service-oriented professions. ...

Maintenance Planning and Scheduling Handbook (McGraw-Hill Handbooks)

8 reviews
Richard D. Palmer

McGraw-Hill Professional, 2005

Ideal for all Maintenance Program Designers
Doc Palmer has provided a great tool for all Maintenance Program Designers and others to use. Mr. Palmer has provided good details and examples in the book while also making it as enjoyable to read as it is informative. I highly recommend this book to all who are step one and beyond in Maintenance Management and Development. One of the hardest espects of starting a new maintenance program for a ...

Briefs for Building Better Brands: Tips, Parables and Insights for Market Leaders

4 reviews
Allan Gorman

AGCD Brandspa Books, 2004

briefs for building better brands
I admit it-I'm a business book junkie. I read them all, but rarely can I point to a specific "to do" action afterwards. With this book I had a list of things that I need to immediately implement. And I plan to re-read it just to make sure I didn't miss any thing!

Building the Corporate Brand

2 reviews
Stefan Paul Jaworski

Art Bookbindery, 2001

An Expert View.
This is a brand and marketing strategy book I must highly reccommend- especially for professionals in the field (even with the odd spelling mistake). Really detailed, expert analysis and unique insight- the "real thing" in a world that is full of "pretend experts". This guy knows his stuff- big time. Many ideas are new and jump at the reader, and are backed up by real case study examples. This ...

Balanced Brand: How to Balance the Stakeholder Forces That Can Make Or Break Your Business

8 reviews
John Foley, Julie Kendrick

Jossey-Bass, 2006

Led to higher ground...
Balanced Brand guided me to higher ground. For nearly two years, my head has been awash in the technology and behavorial shifts accelerating due to internet connectivity globally and what that entails. There is a river of change flowing and it's reaching flood stage. Blogs, podcasts, vlogs, online social networking sites, news aggregation tools (allowing people to scan and consume hundreds of ...

Building Product Models: Computer Environments, Supporting Design and Construction

2 reviews
Charles M Eastman

CRC, 1999

A first book on data exchange in construction industry
FROM Preface: This is the first book dealing with the electronic representation of buildings for data exchange and collaboration, what are called building product models. Up to now, all the efforts in building modeling have been scattered in research journals and conference proceedings, or recorded in minutes of standards meetings, or made available as draft standards on the Internet. This ...

50 Products: Innovations in Design and Materials (Pro-Design Series)

1 review
Mel Byars

Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999

good
good enough

Utilization of flax fibres for building panels and moulded products

2 reviews
K. W Domier

Alberta Municipal Affairs, Housing Division, 1993

rice straw composite
I wold like to lean mor rice straw composit as is wood . What kind of book may I lean . Thank your help.

Building High-Tech Product Companies: The Maelstrom Effect

1 review
James E. Bowen

South-Western Educational Pub, 2003

Useful book,Orginal ideas,and information found nowhere else
This book holds the ideas to the world. It's anyalis of marketing stradgies, both new and old, give high-tech companies the ability to advance forward. If you were only to buy one book on this subject, you could not get one better than this!

Industrial Ecology

2 reviews
T. E. Graedel, B.R. Allenby, ...

Prentice Hall, 1995

Great reference for students in a wide variety of majors.
The book presents the main topics of environmental science in a clear, organized format, relating them to industrial production of goods. Full of visual aids, excercises, and suggested reading lists at the end of each chapter, could definetly be a text book for undergrads. Humanity and Environment.Technology and Industry. Lyfe-Cycle Assessment. Process and Product Audits. Industrial Design. ...

Shops & Boutiques 2000: Designer Stores and Brand Imagery

2 reviews
Marcie Stuchin

Rizzoli Publications, 2000

An outstanding collaborative showcase.
In Shops & Boutiques 2000: Designer Stores And Brand Imagery, Marcie Stuchin and Susan Abramson collaborate to showcase leading trends in international retail design and is illustrated with more than 250 color photographs. Each of the fifty trend-setting stores covered expresses its designer's distinctive aesthetic sensibility through inventive architecture, interior design, and layout in ...

Building Database Driven Catalogs

1 review
Sherif Danish, Patrick Gannon

Computing Mcgraw-Hill, 1998

A must have book for anyone developing a product database.
This book provides a superb business introduction to the development of marketing product databases. If you plan to dynamically generate pages for your web site, read this book first.

Word Building, Grades 4-9 (Roots of Language Series)

2 reviews
J. Robinson

Frank Schaffer, 2001

Great teaching aid.
Reviews 30 prefixes. Each prefix is given two pages. A list of example words with the prefix and a picture to go with one of the words (i.e. antibiotic and a picture of a pill bottle with pills around it). Great for visual learners. The 2nd page is a review of the words and some fill in the blank.Two sister books about more prefixes and roots are Word Strength and Word Wisel.

Fi 156 Storch in action - Aircraft No. 198

1 review

Squadron/Signal Publications, 2005

Providing the reader with a comprehensive understanding and appreciation of this remarkable aircraft
Number 198 in the outstanding Squadron/Signal Publications military aircraft series, Fieseler Storch In Action by Jerry L. Campbell showcases the slow-flying Fi 156 Storch which was designed by Gerhard Fieseler and Reinhard Mewes as a short takeoff and landing aircraft and was a very popular such model in the Germany military and governmental airforce during World War II. The Fi 156 Storch got ...

12 Steps to Robust Decisions: Building Consensus in Product Development and Business

1 review
David Ullman

Trafford Publishing, 2001

Practical information and advice for organizations
Professor Ullman has discovered one of those universal truths that few notice, but when you read about, you say, "Of course!" This is it: It's not the steps taken in any process, but the decision to take the steps, that determines the outcome. So it makes sense to get comfortable with the stuff of decisions--especially since we always seem to have to make them with information that is incomplete, ...

Brand It Like Beckham: Building a Brand with Balls (Great Brand Stories series)

1 review
Andy Milligan

Cyan Communications, 2006

Good but ends in 2004
Excellent but unfortunately the story ends in 2004. And a lot of things has happened since that. Wait for the next edition!

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