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Arcat

Arcat Home Page for Building Products, Specifications and CAD Details

Construction Guide

A guide for construction, maintenance and operations cost

AEC InfoCenter: Architects, Engineers, Contractors, Architecture, Engineering, Building, Construction

http://www.aecinfo.com/

ARCAT - building products and free specs online - also: ada product, manufacturer, computer hardware and software, directory information, constructionsnews and free csi formatted specs or specifications for architects, specification writers, engineers, and contractors

http://www.arcat.com/

Argos Clearinghouse: Engineering

http://www.clearinghouse.net/eng.html

ASCE - American Society of Civil Engineers Homepage

http://www.asce.org/

Structurae: International Database and Gallery of Structures

http://www.structurae.de/index_e.html

While the database may contain works of civil engineering as well as architecture, the focus is on those works designed mainly by engineers or of specific interest in their structural conception. This site provides contemporary as well as historical information.

Builders Hardware Manufacturers Association

The association is comprised of manufacturers of all types of builders hardware products. BHMA collects proprietary statistics for member companies. But the association plays a much larger role in developing and publishing American National Standards Institute (ANSI)/BHMA standards for 25 different product areas. In addition, BHMA publishes four directories of certified products

Barbour Expert - Online to the built environment

http://www.barbourexpert.com/portal_module/index.asp

Barbour Expert is split into six main areas, containing about 20 000 pages of information between them. Building Product Expert gives basic information about 30 000 products from 10 000 manufacturers, with detailed technical and physical characteristics of 11 000 products, as well as case studies. Construction Safety News. LiveNews Up-to-the-minute news service for the construction and property industries. Jobs Site . Editorial archive, a searchable database of articles from Building and the 11 other magazines in The Builder Group. Research includes a range of reports.

BatOnLine

http://annuaire.batonline.com/

In French

The Blue Book of Building and Construction

http://www.thebluebook.com/

BRE - Constructing the future

http://www.bre.co.uk/

British Institute of Architectural Technologists

http://www.biat.org.uk/

BSRIA (Building Services Research and Information Association)

http://www.bsria.co.uk/

Building Cost Information Service & Building Maintenance Information - BCIS & BMI

http://www.bcis.co.uk/

Subscribers can access cost information for a wide range of commercial, industrial, residential and public sector buildings. BCIS is for capital cost information while BMI covers maintenance management information and building maintenance, property occupancy and refurbishment costs. From the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Building FOCUS (UK)

http://www.building-focus.co.uk/

By Property Intelligence Plc and The Builder Group Plc.

BuildingOnline: 714-496-6648 Search Engine Version 3.0

http://www.buildingonline.com/blsearch.shtml

US site

Building Information Warehouse

http://www.theBIW.com/home.asp

buildingweb - Home Page

http://www.buildingweb.com/

Building Centre

http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/

Buildnet (Spain)

http://www.buildnet.es/

Built Environment E- Resources, University of Central Lancashire Library

http://www.uclan.ac.uk/library/usersupport/lrs/subjects/eresources/builtenvironment.htm

Canadian Thesaurus of Construction Science and Technology

http://www.cisti.nrc.ca/irc/thesaurus/

CIB HomePage: International Council for Building , Research Studies and Documentation

http://www.cibworld.nl/

CIRIA: Construction Industry Research and Information Association

http://www.ciria.org.uk/

Civil Engineering Virtual Library

http://www.ce.gatech.edu/WWW-CE/home.html

Comprehensive list of WWW servers containing information about Civil Engineering, including Gopher servers and FTP archives. Includes universities, organizations, government agencies, and commercial sites from around the world.

Cob Cottage Company

http://www.deatech.com/cobcottage/

Coconet

http://www.coconet.co.uk/

Demo keynotes:

Building Regulations: Part M for new dwellings
Disability Discrimination Act
Construction benchmarking
Supply chain management (Prime Contracting)

Connet - linking European construction

http://www.connet.org/

Europe's Internet Gateway to Information and Advice on the Built Environment. an open portal to connect industry practitioners to relevant information.

Construction Education Connection

http://www.construction.st/

Co-sponsored by the Association of Project Managers

Construction History Society

http://www.fp.rdg.ac.uk/wkc1/chs/

The Construction History Society exists to focus the attention of the construction industry and associated professions on the importance of preserving the records of our built environment so that they are available to future historians, planners and craftsmen.

Construction management:a brief guide to internet resources

http://www.library.rdg.ac.uk/subjects/ir/ircons.html

Construction Specifications Institute

http://www.csinet.org/

Construction Plus

http://www.constructionplus.co.uk/constructionplus/asp/home.asp

Construction Plus is a online information source and community web space for the construction industry in the UK. At launch, Construction Plus comprised community web areas AJ Plus for architects, NCE Plus for engineers, and CN Plus for contractors. Each of these is built on the strength of Emap's market leading magazine brands: Architects' Journal, New Civil Engineer and Construction News. In addition to the above data, each community has special content which adds significant value to each group of professionals in the workplace.

Construction web links

http://www.ConstructionWeblinks.com/

Constructors On Line

http://www.constructors.org/

Site for CIOB members; registration required

Contractor Referral and Verification Bureau Glossary of Construction Terms

http://www.contractorreferral.com/

USA

CSTB - (France)

http://www.cstb.fr/

Research; Technical Consultancy; Quality Assessment; Knowledge Dissemination

CWCT (Centre for Window and Cladding Technology) Glass Cladding Windows Building Envelope

http://www.cwct.co.uk/

The Centre for Window & Cladding Technology is an industrial research, education and training centre based at the University of Bath. The Centre is guided by its ten industry sponsors and has 120 subscribing member companies drawn from the broad spectrum of the construction industry. They include: property owners, developers and architects, engineers, consultants, contractors, manufacturers, installers and component suppliers. The Centre was founded in 1990 in response to growing technical problems being experienced with cladding. The Centre is involved in three main activities: research, education and training and publication. The Centre studies technical and process aspects relating to both glazing and cladding.

DRA UK Construction Industry Links

http://www.dragroup.com/linksa.htm

By Denis Rooney Associates

e-Constructor - The leading AEC Information Portal

http://www.e-constructor.com/

The Earth Building Foundation, Inc. - Earthbuilding Education

http://www.earthbuilding.com/

ENR (Engineering News Record)

http://www.enr.com/

Featuring news, industry directories and job listings for architects, engineers, contractors and other industry leaders

European Construction Institute

http://www.eci-online.org/

The member’s area holds details of the work of the Institute and its members plus live task force forums. The visitor’s area describes work currently underway and features a complete online library of publications in the public domain plus signposts to where you can find out more

European Network of Building Research Institutes (ENBRI)

http://cic.vtt.fi/links/enbri.html

First Source: The definitive source for information on Building Products and Building Product Manufacturers

http://www.CMDFirstSource.com/

First Source: Building Code Library

http://www.CMDFirstSource.com/codes/index.asp

 

Database with detailed information on building codes for all 50 states in the United States, major cities, and some counties.

HPAC Engineering Interactive

http://www.hpac.com/

Heating/Piping/Air Conditioning

IBPSA (International Building Performance Simulation Association)

http://www.mae.okstate.edu/ibpsa/

IBPSA (the International Building Performance Simulation Association) is a non-profit international society of building performance simulation researchers, developers and practitioners, dedicated to improving the built environment.

How to find out: Building Engineering and Surveying

http://www.hw.ac.uk/libWWW/howto/building.html#INTERNET

ImproveNet: America's Home Improvement Network

http://www.improvenet.com/

Find a contractor ;find a designer; find the money; find a product; design gallery

Institute of Building Control

http://www.building-control.org/

Internet Resources - Construction and Surveying

http://www.bolton.ac.uk/learning/consurv/net_res.htm

IRBdirekt: Datenbanken zum Planen und Bauen. Fraunhofer-Informationszentrum Raum und Bau IRB

http://www.irbdirekt.de/

MIT Design Advisor (Version 1.0)

http://18.80.2.250:8080/design/

Tool developed to give preliminary estimates for the performance of building facades. Double skin facades may be compared to conventional facades, and location, occupancy and depth of the perimeter space may be adjusted and the effects viewed.

The Movement for Innovation

http://www.m4i.org.uk/

The Movement for Innovation (M4I) aims to lead radical improvement in construction in value for money, profitability, reliability and respect for people, through demonstration and dissemination of best practice and innovation.

PARTYWALLS.COM - The Party Wall Resources Site

http://www.partywalls.com/

Virtual Architect Home Page

http://www.virtual-architect.net/index.html?discp=Architecture

Product supplier, outsourcing suppliers, technical information (links to the web, software suppliers)

Virtual Engineer Home Page

http://www.virtual-engineer.net/index.html

Portal website for the building and construction industry. Includes links to product suppliers.

Yahoo! Business and Economy>Business to Business>Architecture

http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/regional/countries/united_kingdom/business_and_economy/business_to_business/architecture/

Yahoo! Science:Engineering:Civil Engineering:Construction

http://dir.yahoo.com/Science/engineering/civil_engineering/construction/

Links to web sites