Construction

This book provides a comprehensive theoretical platform for the use and construction of Double Skin Facade projects.

Provides an overview of prefabricated systems in housing, office, and industrial buildings. This book explains the processes of modular construction and the behavior of materials with this approach.

The Future of Modular Architecture presents an unprecedented proposal for mass-customized mid- and high-rise modular housing that can be manufactured and distributed on a global scale.

An unrivalled exploration of the world's most surprising and inspiring brick architecture - in a stylish, compact new format

Global building and construction cultures are hard-wired to constructing too much, too badly, with major social and ecological consequences. Rob Imrie calls us to build less and to build better as a pre-requisite for enhancing welfare and well-being.

The Design and Construction of Pitched Roofing is the definitive guide to obtaining successful results in pitched roofing construction. Written by a team of experts from the NFRC and the RTA, the representative groups in industry for roofing construction.

Through evidence-based research and international case studies, this book focuses on the effects that dangerous defects have on the housing consumer.

The book overviews and analyses the most important steps that transformed initial design intentions into a defined proposal, passing through different solutions, changes, debates, and negotiations among the different stakeholders called into action along the whole process.