
Modern Construction Handbook
Andrew Watts(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
2nd Edition
Published on 30. September 2009
Book
Hardback
504 pages
978-3-211-99195-4 (ISBN)
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Description
The Modern Construction Handbook has become a building construction classic. Its systematic approach with chapters on materials, walls, roofs, construction and environment offers clear and efficient orientation.
The second edition underwent a considerable expansion and has been thoroughly updated:
Digital fabrication techniques are included and presented in an instructional book for the first time, in addition to traditional production processes
- Constructive building principles are shown with new, color 3D drawings and illustrated with photos of built examples of the work of renown architects
- More and densely packed information provided by 3D drawings of the individual components and structures
- Glossary following every chapter containing explanations of terminology and related information
- Environmental aspects and properties of the different materials
- New design and rendering methods such as parametrical design, CAD/CAM and 3D Modeler are explained, shown and integrated in the respective chapters.
The second edition underwent a considerable expansion and has been thoroughly updated:
Digital fabrication techniques are included and presented in an instructional book for the first time, in addition to traditional production processes
- Constructive building principles are shown with new, color 3D drawings and illustrated with photos of built examples of the work of renown architects
- More and densely packed information provided by 3D drawings of the individual components and structures
- Glossary following every chapter containing explanations of terminology and related information
- Environmental aspects and properties of the different materials
- New design and rendering methods such as parametrical design, CAD/CAM and 3D Modeler are explained, shown and integrated in the respective chapters.
More details
Series
Edition
2., nd ed. 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Vienna
Austria
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Professional/practitioner
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
1000
1000 farbige Abbildungen
1000 colour illustrations
Weight
2300 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-211-99195-4 (9783211991954)
Schweitzer Classification
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Andrew Watts
Modern Construction Handbook, 3rd Edition
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05/2013
3rd Edition
Springer
€85.55
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Book
06/2001
1st Edition
Springer
€124.01
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Person
ANDREW WATTS. Born in 1957. Over 20 years experience working as an architect specialising in facade detailing in Paris, London, Melbourne and Dubai on projects with a wide range of construction technologies. He runs his own company, newtechnic, which is a firm of London based architects who create facades in collaboration with leading architects.
Content
Introduction.- Materials.- Walls.- Roofs.- Structure.- Environment.- Future.- References.