Modern Construction Handbook

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Andrew Watts

Format: Book
Pages: 504
Publisher: Springer Wien New York
Date Published: Sep 2009
Stock Code: 69558
ISBN: 9783211991954
Binding: Hardback

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The Modern Construction Handbook has become a building construction classic. Its systematic approach with chapters on materials, walls, roofs, construction and environment offers clear and efficient orientation.

The second edition underwent a considerable expansion and has been thoroughly updated. Digital fabrication techniques are included and presented in an instructional book for the first time, in addition to traditional production processes.

- Constructive building principles are shown with new, color 3D drawings and illustrated with photos of built examples of the work of renown architects

- More and densely packed information provided by 3D drawings of the individual components and structures
- Glossary following every chapter containing explanations of terminology and related information

- Environmental aspects and properties of the different materials

- New design and rendering methods such as parametrical design, CAD/CAM and 3D Modeler are explained, shown and integrated in the respective chapters.

About the Author

Andrew Watts

Andrew Watts leads newtecnic, a façade technology and research consultancy. He is the author of the Modern Construction Handbook (an RIBA Library recommended textbook), Modern Construction Façades and Modern Construction Roofs. Andrew wrote this book and drew the accompanying illustrations. Andrew has a Masters Degree from the University of Cambridge in Interdisciplinary Design, and has 20 years' experience working as an architect specialising in façade detailing on international projects with a wide range of construction technologies. He was a project architect for Jean Nouvel in Paris, working on some of his most notable buildings. More recently as a façade specialist, Andrew has worked on some well-known projects around the world including Federation Square, Melbourne, the Millennium Bridge, London and Burjuman, Dubai.