Construction technology Analysis and Choice

• Main Author: Bryan, Tony 1947- (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Chichester, UK Wiley-Blackwell 2010
• Edition: Second Edition
• Subjects: Building
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• Item Description: Includes index
• Physical Description: x, 453 pages illustrations plans 25 cm
• ISBN: 9781405158749

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.