Abstract:
This book presents the basic concepts of techniques of building construction,
mainly by means of drawings illustrating typical construction details, processes
and concepts. I have chosen this method because it reflects the primary means of
communication on site between building designer and building contractor – the
construction drawing or detail. It must be stressed that the drawings used here
represent typical details, chosen to illustrate particular points of building
construction or technology; they do not constitute the alpha and omega of any
buildings design, detail or process. The principles they illustrate must therefore, in
reality, be applied to the data of the particular problem or situation encountered.
This new edition has been revised by Roger Greeno, in line with current building
regulations.
Readers who want to pursue to greater depth any of the topics treated here will
find many useful sources of information in specialist textbooks, research reports,
manufacturer’s literature, codes of practice and similar publications. One such
subject is building services, which are dealt with here only in so far as they are
applicable to domestic dwellings. A comparable but much wider treatment of
services is given in Building Services Handbook by F. Hall and R. Greeno, also
published by Butterworth-Heinemann.
In conclusion, I hope that this book will not only itself prove useful and helpful
to the reader, but will act as a stimulus to the observation of actual buildings and
the study of works in progress. In this way the understanding gained here will be
continually broadened and deepened by experience
