Print Reading for Construction

Print Reading for Construction
Author: Walter Charles Brown
Publisher: Goodheart-Wilcox Publisher
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2005
Genre: Blueprints
ISBN: 9781590703472

Print Reading for Construction is designed to assist students in reading and understanding residential and commercial prints. This practical text is suitable for vocational students, apprentices, and building trades workers who want to increase their knowledge of print reading and construction drawings. The combination text and workbook presents a thorough discussion of print reading techniques, starting with the basics of print reading and progressing to advanced topics.

Craftsman's Illustrated Dictionary of Construction Terms

Craftsman's Illustrated Dictionary of Construction Terms
Author: James T. Frane
Publisher: Craftsman Book Company
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1994
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9781572180086

Almost anything you could possibly want to know about any word or technique in construction. Hundreds of up-to-date terms, materials, drawings and pictures with detailed descriptions.

Plan Reading and Material Takeoff

Plan Reading and Material Takeoff
Author: Wayne J. Del Pico
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 450
Release: 2015-02-24
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0876293488

A Complete Resource for Residential and Light Commercial Contractors -- based on the latest construction materials and methods. Learn how to: read and interpret building plans create an accurate takeoff, using a complete set of working drawings. Each chapter covers a major construction division, such as concrete, masonry and carpentry -- and uses plans, details and tables to illustrate plan reading and takeoff procedures. A checklist for each material division helps ensure that nothing is left out of your takeoff. Includes a complete set of residential plans from Home Planners, Inc., the nation's leading provider of home plans. With a detailed material takeoff, from site work to electrical. With over 160 illustrations, including commercial construction details.

Print Reading for Engineering and Manufacturing Technology

Print Reading for Engineering and Manufacturing Technology
Author: David A. Madsen
Publisher: Cengage Learning
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9781133716570

This enhanced edition of PRINT READING FOR ENGINEERING AND MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY 3E takes a practical approach to print reading, with fundamental through advanced coverage that demonstrates industry standards essential for pursuing careers in the 21st century. Readers will learn step-by-step how to interpret actual industry prints while building the knowledge and skills that will allow them to read complete sets of working drawings. Realistic examples, illustrations, related tests, and print reading problems are based on real world engineering prints that comply with ANSI, ASME, AWS, and other related standards. Included in this new edition is material on electronic filing, discovery, the duty to prevent spoliation , pertinent rule changes and coverage of the HIPAA standards that facilitates readers' understanding of the importance of these relatively new areas of practice. Thorough updating of the law, changes in rules of procedure, evidence, and ethics standards keeps readers current on changes in the law and practice.

Basic Construction Materials

Basic Construction Materials
Author: Theodore W. Marotta
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Total Pages: 506
Release: 1993
Genre: Architecture
ISBN:

This book is an in-depth introduction covering some of the basic materials used in construction. Thorough coverage of industry standards provides preparation for further study in construction methods, specification writing, design methods, and so forth. Contains coverage of the most widely used construction materials, such as aggregates, asphalt, asphalt concrete, portland cement concrete, masonry, iron, steel, and wood.