Website to Accompany Construction: Principles, Mat Erials, and Methods

This book provides vital descriptive information on how to design buildings, detail components, specify materials and product, and avoid common pitfalls - all in a single volume. Now contains more information on construction documents and administration, prestressed and post-tensioned structural concrete, heavy timber framing, wood siding, and green materials. Features more than 1,200 illustrations, including hundreds of new and updated images. Includes metric units and U.S. customary units throughout.