Uncertainty and ground conditions : a risk management approach / Martin van Staveren.

All civil engineering and construction projects require some sort of solid foundation, but ground conditions bring some degree of uncertainty to every project. Dealing properly with uncertainty over ground conditions can make the difference between the commercial success and failure of a project.Wit...

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Main Author: Van Staveren, Martin
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006.
Edition:1st ed.
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