Construction Technology (PDF)

The second edition of Construction Technology: Analysis and
Choice has been expanded to include commercial buildings. This
now covers, in a single textbook, all the basic forms of
construction studied on professional courses.

The book takes as its theme the process of choice: what the
expert has to know and how he/she might think through the decisions
to be made about the design, production, maintenance and disposal
of buildings.

It is written with the conviction that by focusing on the
process of choice, the range of theory and knowledge that is useful
to practice becomes explicit, making the link between knowledge and
practice, and between understanding and experience.

The new edition has been updated throughout with extensive
additions to Chapter13: Manufacture and Assembly and to
Chapter 15: Sustainability. An entire new section has been
added, covering all the main elements of commercial
construction.

Students will find here explanations of how environments,
structural behaviour, production know-how, cost and social concerns
such as sustainability can be taken into account in the choice of
construction. They will also gain a clear understanding of the
construction details and specifications adopted for both housing
and commercial buildings in the UK at the beginning of the 21st
century.

* Provides a framework to think through proposed solutions

* Sets the choice of solution in both time and place, and in the
context of sustainability

* Focuses on key questions: will the proposal fail; and can it be
built?

* Considers a building's response to loading, environmental
conditions and time

* Looks at the production process as manufacture and
assembly

Book website at
www.wiley.com/go/bryanconstructiontech2e

Contains nearly 200 fully referenced, clear line drawings to
download for free, as well as suggested learning activities for
lecturers to incorporate into their teaching programmes.