Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing

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By David Kent Ballast

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Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing is a thoroughly updated second edition offering over 200 revised construction details. It serves architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, and other building professionals with essential details, materials data, and detailing concepts widely used in the industry. Organised into seven sections aligned with the six-digit CSI MasterFormat, it covers descriptions, installation requirements, material needs, tolerance coordination, and potential failure points, with metric equivalents included.
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Ideal for architects, engineers, and construction professionals seeking a comprehensive reference for common construction detailing standards.

This book presents critical building detail drawings to help an architect produce construction drawings, design and develop custom details, prepare specifications, and check existing drawings.

Description

Significantly updated with revisions to nearly all 200-plus details, this second edition of Architect's Handbook of Construction Detailing provides architects, engineers, interior designers, contractors, and other building professionals with all of the common construction details, materials information, and detailing concepts used throughout the industry.

The information can be used as is or modified to fit individual project designs. Each of the book's seven sections—formatted to follow the new six-digit CSI MasterFormat system—contains details and related information, including descriptions, detailing considerations, material requirements, installation requirements, tolerance coordination, and likely failure points.

Additionally, SI (metric) equivalents have been added to all dimensions.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470381915

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 July 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: Drawings: 200 B&W, 0 Color

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 31.0mm

Width: 221.0mm

Height: 282.0mm

Weight: 1202g

Pages: 480

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About the Author

David Kent Ballast, FAIA, CSI, a registered architect, has owned Architectural Research Consulting since 1981. The consulting firm provides applied research, technical advice, specifications, and information management services to architects, interior designers, and others in the construction industry. Since 1987, Ballast has been an instructor in interior construction and basic drafting at Arapahoe Community College. He is the author of a number of books on construction technology, including Handbook of Construction Tolerances, Second Edition (Wiley).