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Time-Saver Details for Exterior Wall Design
Draw and detail exterior walls with ease Accurately specifying and designing exterior walls can challenge even experieced architects. That's why you need Fred Nashed's Time-Saver Details for Exterior Wall Design. The most comprehensive single source available for hassle-free exterior wall construction, this plain-language guide offers easy-to-follow strategies for calculating loads and stresses--ranging from concrete and steel bearing walls to glass curtains--as well as expert tips and techniques for avoiding common problems and pitfalls. Regardless of your experience, you'll find authoritative data you can use right away to solve virtually any design challenge, such as: cost, durability, redundancy, and maintenance issues; selecting the most suitable products and systems; types of walls and windows; pros and cons of common wall assemblies; drafting methodology; defelection on wall panel and window frames; and much more.
Designing the Exterior Wall
By presenting the basics of building science along with a prescribed set of details, Designing the Exterior Wall helps you understand why buildings fail and how they can be made more durable through design. Author Linda Brock connects the science and aesthetics of building envelopes through the examination of a variety of construction and cladding types. She features details from real world projects in a variety of climates, successful and unsuccessful case studies, and checklists you can use on your own projects. Helps you reduce your liability by showing why building envelopes fail and how they can be designed to endure. Moves from theory to actual construction by including hundreds of building envelope details from a broad array of projects and climates. Integrates numerous contemporary case studies, including Frank Gehry's Experiential Music Center in Seattle (thin skins), Renzo Piano's Rue de Meaux housing in Paris (terra cotta cladding), and Mario Botta's San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (prefabricated brick panels). Designing the Exterior Wall is a must-have book, whether you're an architect or a student. Order your copy today.
Exterior Walls
Presents state-of-the-art techniques, materials, and technologies for housing rehabilitation, to inform builders, architects, engineers, and other housing rehabilitation professionals about such innovations. Focuses on building technology, materials, components and techniques. The content has been gathered from professionals in the housing rehabilitation field; trade shows, conferences, reports, and publications considering such issues; trade organizations; and building research centers. Covers: design and engineering; masonry; sheathing; insulation; siding; stucco; sealants and caulks; paint; and much more. Lists professional associations and research centers.
Performance of Exterior Building Walls
Annotation All of the presentations and the papers in this publication address ways to improve the performance of exterior building walls, or ways to identify, understand, and avoid the factors leading to failures in the future.
Framing Floors, Walls, and Ceilings
For the DIY-er who wants to build a new home from scratch, add on an addition, or tackle a major renovation, the mix of articles featured in this guide shows how to do it right the first time - from trueing up a mudsill and cutting multiple parts all at once (a tremendous timesaver) to selecting headers, erecting trusses, and completing cathedral and coffered ceilings.
Exterior Green Wall Design
Provides a comprehensive introduction to exterior green wall designShowcases innovative case studies with spectacular images and technical drawings and diagrams to illustrate the professional expertise, knowledge of planning, design concepts, installation procedures, maintenance, and effective plan selectionsCovers a wide range of international projects drawn from many well-known architects and designersShowcases a collection that is inspirational and a strong practical reference for architects, planners, preservationists, landscape and interior designers, and all who are directly involved in green wall designIn recent years, vertical greening has become more and more popular. No doubt many ...
