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Marketing Green Building Services: Strategies for Success presents all the information key decision-makers need to respond to the fast-growing market for green buildings, design and construction services and products. Completely updated, revised and expanded from the author's previous works, this book is the one resource you need to succeed in the green building marketplace.With a sound grounding in contemporary marketing theory and practice, the book assembles hard-to-find information to assist executives and partners in design and construction firms in crafting competitive strategies that build on their firm strengths, while shoring up their weaknesses. Since most design and construction firms specialize in particular market sectors, the book systematically examines the important market segments for green buildings. It also presents key business case justifications for green buildings that help architects, engineers and builders to understand client motivations and respond to them with appropriate marketing tactics and communications strategies. The book examines how the green building market is adopting certain new products and design approaches, information that will help manufacturers and product sales teams to craft appropriate marketing strategies. The book also helps owners and developers understand the green building business case and to find out what other leading-edge firms and projects have learned - how to market and sell green buildings and green developments in a highly competitive marketplace.

Modern practice in geomechanics involves the use of numerical modelling and the internet. These numerical techniques can be applied not only to soil mechanics, but also to rock mechanics and environmental engineering. This textbook covers modern analysis of shallow foundations, deep foundations, retaining structures and excavation and tunneling; and additionally municipal and mining waste and solutions for the disposal and containment of waste. Many fresh solutions to problems are presented to enable more accurate and advanced design to be carried out.