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Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods, 3rd Edition [Hardcover]

Edward Allen (Author)
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This invaluable resource focuses on basic materials and the methods employed in building construction. Featuring more than 600 photos and 400 line drawings, Fundamentals of Building Construction emphasizes common construction systems such as: light wood frames, masonry bearing walls, steel frames, and reinforced concrete.

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This Third Edition of the classic Fundamentals of Building Construction offers a panoramic view of today's construction systems-from foundation to roof, exterior cladding to interior finishes. Every common system of construction is covered, including wood light frame construction, heavy timber, masonry, steel, sitecast concrete, and precast concrete. New chapters offer coverage of light gauge steel frame construction and detailed information on selecting windows and doors.

Architect and author Edward Allen addresses the history, theory, and practice of each type of construction, including typical details of assembly. The lucid text is supported by more than 600 photographs and 400 line drawings, many of them arranged in sequences that illustrate construction operations step-by-step. More than 200 of the illustrations were prepared especially for this new edition. These include photographs of recent work by Horst Berger, Helmut Jahn, Cesar Pelli, Frank Gehry, Eric Owen Moss, Steven Holl, and Suzane Reatig.

This book is an essential reference for students of architecture, civil engineering, and construction technology. It finds everyday use in virtually every architecture firm in North America.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Surpassed expectations, May 28 2004
This review is from: Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
Being a student in Construction Management Edward Allen's book was assigned as our text book. The course entitled materials and methods is intended to teach future construction manajors about the wide variety of materials on the market today as well as tradional methods of constructing with these materials.
The book is chalked full of knowledge most of which would take a person hours, even days of research to uncover with other sources. It is very comprehensive. If you are active in the comercial building construction this book is a must for your refrence shelf. Residential construction owners/workers would gain considerable knowledge from the book it has plenty of useful information however I feel the book is leaning more towards heavy commercial.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good reading--too expensive, Jan 2 2003
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
The author's readable style helps a lot. Also, interesting background material and history begin each chapter, and some industrial processes--glass-making, for example--are explained more fully. You won't regret reading this book, but you may be inclined to sell it when you're through.
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5.0 out of 5 stars very helpfull, Jan 17 2002
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This review is from: Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods, 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
This book is a must have for every body who is in the architecture field...it's worth every penny..
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