Construction

Fully-updated to feature all the latest issues and techniques in Construction - including a new chapter on Sustainability - Advanced Construction Technology 5th edition is the definitive, reliable and comprehensive handbook for students.

A visual and textual exploration of softwood timber-framed construction in the United States since 1832, highlighting also how this quintessentially American type of construction has come to dominate the USA's built landscape and erased typological and social distinctions in a socially and economically deeply divided country.

This book presents critical building detail drawings to help an architect produce construction drawings, design and develop custom details, prepare specifications, and check existing drawings.

The building performance evaluation (BPE) framework emphasizes an evaluative stance throughout the six phases of the building delivery and life cycle such as: strategic planning/needs analysis; program review; design review; among others. This work gives practical advice on assessing and monitoring building performance.