Product Description

This textbook describes and examines the basic constructional techniques, choice and use of materials and the statutory requirements for domestic buildings. Continued developments in materials and techniques together with syllabus changes have made this fifth edition necessary. It contains many new and replacement diagrams, which now occupy more than 80 pages, compared with 65 in the fourth edition. New topics included are: environmentally friendly buildings and radon - free-standing walls - more extensive cavity wall details and their insulation - more solid and joisted floor detailing including insulation - sound insulation of partitions - prevention of condensation in pitched roofs - warm deck and cold deck roofing details - aluminium / timber and PVC-U windows and doors - GRP interceptors, septic tanks, cesspools and sewage treatment plant. The book is suitable for the following courses: building, built environment, quantity surveying, building surveying, estate management, architecture, housing management, environmental health, structural and civil engineering. It is aimed at undergraduates, BTEC HND, Diploma, GNVQ Advanced, RICS, and CIOB students and is suitable for the professional exams of: Incorporated Association of Architects and Surveyors, Incorporated Society of Valuers and Auctioners, Architects' and Surveyors Institute, Institute of Clerks of Works.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #45025 in Books
• Published on: 1995-02-13
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

Customer Reviews

Detailed construction practices
This book boasts some very useful features indeed. It gives a basic introduction and coverage of construction practices and proceedures, along with some excellent diagrams.
Each section describes the practices involved in the different areas, as well as the materails used and their many characteristics and constraints.
However, this book has large bodies of text which somehow dont seem to reflect the required detail. It never seems to go beyond the basic principles, and only touches on these in the most simplistic way.
The diagrams however, are of the highest quality. There are many of them, all layed out in a professional manner and well annotated. They would be ideal for reference purposes and a very notable example of how a student should aim to present their own work.
Additionally, the comments on the different types of material can be useful as many other trade literatures fail to do this.
To summarise, this book is a very basic introduction to the methods and principles of building, ideal for a student at lower level. It is not one to be used at an advanced level, but would prove a useful guide to the newcomer.

Dated
Although Building Technology is a good reference for building, some items and practices could be out dated.

building book
i am training to become an energy assessor, and had to purchase this as a textbook. needless to say, it proved invaluable.