Zigurat Invites You to Celebrate the World Book Day with Some High-quality Professional Reading
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Zigurat Global Institute of Technology organizes a special E-Reader’s Week to mark the World Book day. For that occasion, during the week leading up to April 23rd, our professors and the most distinguished alumni will share with wider audiences the e-books they have written.
Starting on 15th of April and culminating on the 22nd, Zigurat will gift each day one of its e-books in engineering, architecture or digital business for free. The eight e-books represented in the 2020 E-Reader’s Week are:
- April 15th, BIM Management Handbook (EN) - This must-have guide seeks to give an overview of BIM Implementation around the world today. The topics covered in this edition include BIM profiles, uses and drivers, global construction market and BIM around the world, etc.
- April 16th, Cálculo de Nave Metálica de Perfiles de Sección Constante y Variable según el CTE (ES) - Is a practical e-book where the load calculations shall be performed manually and checked against the calculations obtained with the CYPE 2016 program.
- April 17th, Diseño Estructural Frente a Explosiones (ES) - This e-book by civil engineer Alfredo Arnedo covers characteristics of explosions, shock waves and the equivalent TNT loads and wave model and pressures.
- April 18th, Goal-Setting Handbook (EN) - Focused on objectives and key results (OKRs), this comprehensive e-book by Robin Weninger & Sophia Bolz will help the reader to identify what the company needs to achieve and how to get there.
- April 19th, Sistema de certificación de la sostenibilidad LEED (ES) - This e-book discusses the concept of sustainability and more specifically on the LEED green rating system for the building industry.
- April 20th, Sistemas de climatización (HVAC): demandas y consumos energéticos (ES) - This e-book explores how to accelerate the fight against climate change and how to work towards that within a cost-efficient trajectory of the different technologies capable of achieving the decarbonizations objectives.
- April 21st, Uniones en estructuras de acero sometidas a sismo (ES) - This ebook by civil engineer Alfredo Arnedo is dedicated to connections in steel structures submitted to earthquakes and how to work on ductility-based aseismic design
- April 22nd, Fatores de Rigidez en concreto (PT) - A in-depth study about factors that influence the stiffness of buildings of reinforced concrete that assesses the need to examine second order effects.
