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Fundamentals of Building Construction, 4th Edition is the premier textbook on the materials and methods of building construction. This book is comprehensive, covering all major forms of building construction, and highly accessible. It is copiously illustrated, logically organized, and well written. Every aspect of this book has been designed with the needs of the student of construction foremost in mind. It makes the complex tangle of construction technology understandable, relevant, and a pleasure to learn. Visit publisher's web site...

Exercises in Building Construction, 4th Edition is the companion workbook to the Fundamentals of Building Construction textbook. The 45 problems in the exercise book lead students step-by-step into using the factual information in Fundamentals of Building Construction in a real-world manner, functioning as a designer, detailer, or specifier. Students soon find themselves selecting structural systems, drawing framing plans, detailing framing connections, adding finish components, and relating choices of systems and materials to building code requirements. These problems not only reinforce the material in the textbook, but also prepare students for the professional work they will soon be asked to perform in an office or on a jobsite. Visit publisher's web site...

The Architect's Studio Companion: Rules of Thumb for Preliminary Design, 3rd Edition, is to helps students and design professionals incorporate technical systems into their work at the earliest possible stage in the design process. To be included in this book, a system must have a significant impact on the size, form, or organization of a building. Systems covered include structure, mechanical and electrical, daylighting, egress, and building code height and area limitations. All information is provided in simplified, easy-to-access form. Guidance is provided on selecting systems, allocating space and arranging the elements that make up each system, and assigning preliminary sizes to the parts. With this book, a half-hour suffices to determine all the fundamental technical parameters that bear on the design of a building. Visit publisher's web site...

Architectural Detailing: Function Constructibilty, Aesthetics is intended for the student or professional seeking to understand the principals of assembling well-constructed buildings. This book is not another compendium of standard building details. Rather, Archtiectural Detailing first presents the physical and design principals that underlie good detailing, including for example, controlling the flow of water, providing for constructability, reinforcing the aesthetics of the building, and much more. The second half of the book leads the reader through case studies of detail development--from design concept to finished working drawing details--for three buildings of varying scales and materials of construction. This book provides a unique, methodical approach to learning how to design successful building assemblies. Visit publisher's web site...

Shaping Structures: Statics is the first statics book to emphasize the creation of good structural form. Using only the basic conditions of static equilibrium, the chapters of this book cover the design of arches, vaults, cables, trusses, and cable-stayed structures, including the generation of appropriate forms for each type, finding the forces in the structure, approximate sizing of components, key details, and erection procedures. Numerical methods for all these operations are given, but graphical methods, which are rapid, easy, transparent, and pleasant to do, are emphasized. The graphical approach is particularly valuable in finding forms for trusses with desired structural properties, which is explained in the final chapter. With this book, the statics class becomes a lively, creative venue in which students make a head start toward becoming designers of structures, not merely calculators. The limited, isolated problems of the conventional statics book are replaced by original design projects prepared by each student, projects that become the vehicles for learning statics. Visit publisher's web site...

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