Construction Technology 2: Industrial and Commercial Building
Description
A new edition of this popular undergraduate textbook for the study of industrial and commercial building. This third edition is thoroughly revised including new material on sustainable construction, Building Information Modelling (BIM) and sustainable building services.
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Mike Riley is Director and Alison Cotgrave is Deputy Director of the School of the Built Environment, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.
Content
PART I: PREPARING TO BUILD .- 1. Functions and Requirements of Industrial and Commercial Buildings .- 2. The Building Process .- 3. Preparing to Build .- PART II: BUILDING SUBSTRUCTURE .- 4. Foundations .- 5. Walls Below Ground and Basement Construction .- 6. Ground Floors .- PART III: BUILDING SUPERSTRUCTURE .- 7. High-rise Buildings.- 8. Long-span Frames .- 9. Fire Engineering Design .- 10. External Walls and Claddings for Multi-storey and Large-span Commercial Buildings.- 11. Upper Floors and Internal Access.- 12. Roof Construction.- 13. Internal Division of Space and Integration of Services.- PART IV: SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SERVICES.- 14. Sustainable Building Services.