Construction Specifications Portable Handbook

Construction Specifications Portable Handbook
Author: Fred A. Stitt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Buildings
ISBN: 9780071341035

CONTENIDO: Common problems with specifications - How to create set of specifications - How to create office master specifications - Instructions for using the CSI format - Specification section checklist long form - Project manager and specifications - Writer considerations and decisions - Specifications development - Don't be taken in by bad substitutions during biddin.

Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook

Landscape Architect's Portable Handbook
Author: Nicholas T. Dines
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 455
Release: 2001-02-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0071344225

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Concrete Portable Handbook

Concrete Portable Handbook
Author: R. Dodge Woodson
Publisher: Elsevier
Total Pages: 481
Release: 2011-07-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 0123821770

Whether or not, you are on the job site or back in the office, this book will help you to avoid mistakes, code violations, and wasted time and money. The book's four part treatment begins with constituent materials followed by self contained parts on Concrete Properties, Processes, and Concrete Repair and Rehabilitation. Designed to be an "all in one" reference, the author includes a wealth information for the most popular types of testing. This includes: Analysis of Fresh Concrete; Testing Machines; Accelerated Testing Methods; Analysis of Hardened Concrete and Mortar; Core Sampling and Testing; Assessment of Concrete Construction ; Repair; Quality Concepts; Quality Control; Statistics; Standards, Specifications, and Codes of Practice. With this book in hand, construction engineers and even technicians find valuable information regarding Exposed Concrete Finishes, Repairing Concrete, Formwork, Precast Concrete, Concrete Roads, and Industrial Floors. Project managers and owners will find this reference a valuable guide to concrete both in terms of its applications in construction projects and the science and chemistry of concrete for its own sake. - Fundamentals of Concrete Chemistry - Handy at your figure tip calculations - Tips for working with all types of concretes - Covers Roads, floors, and finishes - Principles of Precast, Reinforced and Prestressed Concrete

Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook

Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook
Author: Robert Day
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 784
Release: 1999-12-02
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 007177744X

One-volume library of instant geotechnical and foundation data Now for the first time ever, geotechnical, foundation, and civil engineers...geologists...architects, planners, and construction managers can quickly find information they must refer to every working day, in one compact source. Edited by Robert W. Day, the time -and effort-saving Geotechnical Engineer's Portable Handbook gives you field exploration guidelines and lab procedures. You'll find soil and rock classification, basic phase relationships, and all the tables and charts you need for stress distribution, pavement, and pipeline design. You also get abundant information on all types of geotechnical analyses, including settlement, bearing capacity, expansive soil, slope stability - plus coverage of retaining walls and building foundations. Other construction-related topics covered include grading, instrumentation, excavation, underpinning, groundwater control and more.

Electrical Engineer's Portable Handbook

Electrical Engineer's Portable Handbook
Author: Robert B. Hickey
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 608
Release: 2003-10-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 007143349X

The first edition of this title proved the most successful of the Portable Handbook series launched in 1999. Aimed at electrical engineers and technicians working in building power systems, the relentlessly practical Handbook succeeded as an in the field working tool. This new edition is necessitated by the new 2002 version of the National Electrical Code (NEC). This code changes render much of the existing material obsolete, so over half the chapters require heavy rewrites to stay current.

Architect's Portable Handbook

Architect's Portable Handbook
Author: John Patten ("Pat") Guthrie
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 718
Release: 2003-03-21
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780071409810

* Compiles all the rules of thumb and referenced facts to provide a convenient, one-stop resource for builders and architects * Updated to include new cost information and coverage of the latest International Building and NFPA (National Fire Protection Association) Codes * Hundreds of diagrams, charts, tables, checklists, details, and other design data for building materials, components, and assemblies * Structured to follow typical job progression, this resource covers initial planning and estimating through design and construction

Working Drawing Manual

Working Drawing Manual
Author: Fred A. Stitt
Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional
Total Pages: 356
Release: 1998-05-22
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780070615540

Stitt provides a comprehensive set of checklists to ensure the accuracy and completeness of working drawings. Accurate drawings help prevent construction cost overruns, building failures, and lawsuits.

The Architecture Reference & Specification Book

The Architecture Reference & Specification Book
Author: Julia McMorrough
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610587812

DIV Most architectural standards references contain thousands of pages of details—overwhelmingly more than architects need to know to know on any given day. The Architecture Reference & Specification Book contains vital information that's essential to planning and executing architectural projects of all shapes and sizes, in a format that is small enough to carry anywhere. It distills the data provided in standard architectural volumes and is an easy-to-use reference for the most indispensable—and most requested—types of architectural information. /div

Materials

Materials
Author: Julia McMorrough
Publisher: Rockport Pub
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2006
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1592531938

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