About this eTextbook
The Modern Construction Handbook has become a building construction classic and is used as a textbook in many courses. Its systematic approach with chapters on materials, walls, roofs, construction and environment offers clear and efficient orientation. Digital fabrication techniques are included as well (complementing traditional production processes) and presented in an instructional book for the first time.
The third edition has been thoroughly updated and now provides: More information – more annotation of drawings, more text on the page. Updated ‘future’ chapter with more emerging construction techniques. Updated essays on construction in the introduction Chapter 1.
Mote technical data in the ‘Materials’ Chapter. ISBNs for Modern Construction Handbook are 9783990434550, 3990434551 and the print ISBNs are 9783990434543, 3990434543. Additional ISBNs include 9783990435908.
Publication details
- Author: Andrew Watts
- Publisher: Ambra
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