This is the third guideline published under the Beyond the Pavement initiative. It accompanies Bridge Aesthetics and Noise Wall Design Guidelines and addresses the issue of the visual impact of shotcrete. While shotcrete is a useful and cost effective means ...

Masonry houses with good structural performance may be constructed by appropriate construction procedures, good structural detailing and good quality control. This guide has been divided in fourteen sections following the construction procedure. Structural ...

Stone buildings using fully dressed rectangularized stone units, or cast solidblocks consisting of large stone pieces in cement concrete mix 1:3.6 may be built according to the details given in Chapter 4.Those also generally apply to the random-rubble and ...

The purpose of developing these guidelines is to provide technically soundanalytical tools and acceptable assessment criteria for the seismic evaluation of stone-masonry structures.

A rock mass is a material quite different from other structural materials used in civil engineering. It is heterogeneous and quite often discontinuous, but is one of the materials in the earth's crust, which is most used in man's construction. This chapter ...