Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing - Hardcover

Ballast, David Kent

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470381914 ISBN 13: 9780470381915

Publisher: Wiley, 2009

Synopsis

Significantly updated with revisions to nearly all 200-plus details, this second edition of Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing provides architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, and other building professionals with all of the common construction details, materials information, and detailing concepts used throughout the industry. The information can be used as is or modified to fit individual project designs. Each of book's seven sections -- formatted to follow the new six-digit CSI MasterFormat system -- contains details and related information, including descriptions, detailing considerations, material requirements, installation requirements, tolerance coordination, and likely failure points. Additionally, SI (metric) equivalents have been added to all dimensions.

About this title

About the Author

David Kent Ballast, FAIA, CSI, a registered architect, has owned Architectural Research Consulting since 1981. The consulting firm provides applied research, technical advice, specifications, and information management services to architects, interior designers, and others in the construction industry. Since 1987, Ballast has been an instructor in interior construction and basic drafting at Arapahoe Community College. He is the author of a number of books on construction technology, including Handbook of Construction Tolerances, Second Edition (Wiley).

From the Back Cover

Ready-to-use information about the most critical building details

The Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing, Second Edition provides architects, interior designers, contractors, students, and others in the construction industry with a convenient source of detailing and specification information on hundreds of commonly used details and materials. Keep the Handbook at your desk to help solve specific problems, as the basis for developing a master detail system, or as a reference for checking existing drawings and specifications.

Significantly updated with revisions to nearly all details, the Second Edition focuses on the key areas where you are most likely to encounter problems, such as exterior cladding, roofing, doors, and masonry. Featuring thoroughly redrawn illustrations and the latest industry standard references, the new edition now includes:

• A thorough profile of each detail: description, detailing considerations, coordination required, material requirements, installation requirements, tolerance coordination, and likely failure points
• Details revised to reflect new technologies and more stringent energy conservation requirements
• New sections on concrete with insulation, autoclaved aerated concrete, glass fiber-reinforced concrete panels, precast concrete with insulation, multistory wood framing, and more
• A keynoting system updated to the new 6-digit MasterFormat™ numbering systems

Regardless of how you use this book, you will find it to be a time-saving reference that can minimize errors and improve the technical documentation of your projects.

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Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing

David Kent Ballast, Faia, csi

Second Edition

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0470381914
• ISBN 13: 9780470381915
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 480