Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and Construction by Ernest Burden

Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and Construction by Ernest Burden

The only illustrated dictionary to include construction, design, and related-business terminology, with more photos and detailed drawings than any other book on the shelf.

Low interest rates have encouraged a prolonged building and renovation boom in many parts of the USRelease of this illustrated building design and construction dictionary, aimed at engineers, architects, technicians, contractors, trades people, real estate firms, students, and homeowners is therefore timely. Burden, author of Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture (CH, Oct'98, 36-0672) and Illustrated Dictionary of Architectural Preservation (CH, Jul'04, 41-6238), offers a dictionary with over 5,000 simple definitions of design, contracting, project management, construction, renovation, eco-design, and adaptive use terms. Entries are carefully cross-referenced, written to be accessible to nonprofessionals, and range in length from 4 to 75 words. The volume includes few acronyms. In construction and architecture, a picture is worth a thousand words; hence more than 1,500 unusually high-quality black-and-white photographs, cropped working drawings, plan, maps, and construction schedules accompany entries where appropriate. This is an excellent ready-reference book for fist-time home buyers. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers; undergraduates. -- J.A. Buczynski, Seneca College of Applied Arts and Technology Choice 20050501

Ernest Burden (New York, NY), Assoc. AIA, is an architect, author and consultant specializing in marketing and project delivery strategies. He is the author of many books on design and presentation, including McGraw-Hill's Entourage: A Tracing File and Color Source Book. He is also the author of three illustrated dictionaries for McGraw-Hill: Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture, Illustrated Dictionary of Architectural Preservation, and Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and Construction.

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ISBN 13	9780071445061
ISBN 10	0071445064
Title	Illustrated Dictionary of Building Design and Construction
Author	Ernest Burden
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Year published	2004-12-16
Number of pages	296
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.