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For courses in Commercial Construction, Construction Methods and Materials, Building Fundamentals, and Construction Practices.

This classic text provides an overview of the principles, equipment, materials, and methods applied in the construction of commercial buildings. The text deals with each phase of the construction process in a chapter-by-chapter format, beginning with site evaluation and layout to interior design and building finishes. Supporting discussions are accompanied with a wealth of clear, captivating illustrations and numerous examples with detailed solutions.

For courses in Commercial Construction, Construction Methods and Materials, Building Fundamentals, and Construction Practices.

This classic text provides an overview of the principles, equipment, materials, and methods applied in the construction of commercial buildings. The text deals with each phase of the construction process in a chapter-by-chapter format, beginning with site evaluation and layout to interior design and building finishes. Supporting discussions are accompanied with a wealth of clear, captivating illustrations and numerous examples with detailed solutions.

Hallmark Features

• Logical framework–Provides an overview of the principles, equipment, materials, and methods applied in the construction of commercial buildings. Each phase of the construction process is covered in a chapter-by-chapter format, beginning with site evaluation and layout to interior design and building finishes.
• Presents students with a non-intimidating overview of construction processes.

• Materials used in heavy construction–Discusses materials, their properties, and the tests performed on them to ensure suitable performance of the final product.
• Supplies students with an in-depth look at the materials used in the construction of commercial buildings.

• Reference standards–Established by both the American Society for Testing Materials ASTM and the American Concrete Institute ACI.
• Assures students that text material meets standards of industry professionals.

• Tests for ACI Concrete Field Testing Technician Grade 1 Certification Program.
• Helps students to review, prepare–and excel–for this test.

• Basic principles of structural design.
• Describes for students the reasons for the methods, equipment, and structural details that are used in the various situations encountered on a building site.

• Worked examples.
• Demonstrates for readers the methods that are used in estimating excavation quantities, pile capacities, concrete pressures, and more!

• Both standard and metric units–Provided for all chapter-end review problems and all tables and details throughout the book.
• Equips students to understand the manipulation of units using the two most widely used methods of measure.

• Chapter-end review questions–Approximately 250 in total.
• Enables students to reinforce the major concepts covered in each chapter before moving on to the next.

• NEW! Coverage of SustainableBuilding (GreenBuilding), now included in Chapters 12 & 15, introduces the reader to this important concept.
• ENHANCED! — Updated diagrams and photographs throughout, approximately 900 in total, reflect changes in construction equipment and help illustrate current construction practices.
• UPDATED! — Chapter 1, Site Investigation, better illustrates the methods used in the testing and evaluation of soils on the building site.
• EXPANDED! — Chapter 3, Excavations and Excavating Equipment, provides additional information for the calculation of excavating volumes.
• NEW! — Chapter 4, Site Development and Services, pulls together related content for the first time including topics such as roadway pavements, curbs & sidewalks, parking areas, storm and sanitary sewer lines, storm water management, and street lighting.
• REVISED! Chapter 10, Structural Steel Frame, has been thoroughly updated and reorganized to better illustrate the fabrication process of structural steel and the erection of structural steel for building frames.
• REVISED & EXPANDED! Chapter 12, Roof Systems & Industrial Roofing, has been completely rewritten to include the various roof design principles and the materials used in roof construction.

Chapter One            Site Investigation

Chapter Two            Site Layout             

Chapter Three          Excavations and Excavating Equipment    

Chapter Four            Site Development and Services

Chapter Five             Foundations   

Chapter Six               Formwork   

Chapter Seven          Concrete Work   

Chapter Eight            Structural Timber Frame  

Chapter Nine             Reinforced Concrete Frame    

Chapter Ten              Structural Steel Frame   

Chapter Eleven          Floor Systems and Industrial Flooring   

Chapter Twelve         Roof Systems and Industrial Roofing  

Chapter Thirteen       Masonry Construction          

Chapter Fourteen      Curtain Wall Construction   

Chapter Fifteen         Building Insulation   

Chapter Sixteen        Finishing  

Glossary of Terms  

Index          

Commercial Construction (Construction Management & Civil Technology)
Construction Methods and Materials (Construction Management & Civil Technology)

For courses in Commercial Construction, Building Fundamentals, Construction Methods and Materials, and Introduction to Construction Practices.

This classic text provides an overview of the methods, equipment, and materials used in the construction of large commercial buildings. Each chapter covers the principles and practices of a particular aspect of the construction process—from site layout to building finishes—supporting discussions with a wealth of clear, captivating illustrations.

• Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction, 7/E
  Andres & Smith
  © 2004 | Prentice Hall | Cloth; 560 pages | Instock
  ISBN-10: 0130482927 | ISBN-13: 9780130482921
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Cameron K. Andres graduated from the University of Manitoba (1966) with a B Sc in Civil Engineering and then worked as a structural design engineer in Western Canada for nine years (1966 to 1975).

He taught at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Calgary Alberta (1975- 2000) in the Civil Engineering Technology Program where he taught courses including strength of materials, structural design, concrete technology, and computer assisted structural analysis.  During this time, he earned a degree diploma (1990) in Adult Education from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

In 1978 he co-authored the textbook–Masonry: Materials Design Construction, published by Reston Publishing.

He began the long association with Prentice Hall in 1986 by doing the third edition of Principles and Practices of Heavy Construction which was the precursor to Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction, 8^th Edition.

The revision of this classic text provides a well-illustrated and logical engineering approach to the principles and building practices used in the construction of commercial buildings. Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction presents an overview of the methods, equipment, and materials used while covering each phase of the construction process in a sequential, chapter-by-chapter format. Progressing from site evaluation and layout to interior and building finishes, this edition includes detailed examples, more than 900 illustrations, and review questions throughout.

New to this edition:

• Revised discussion on soil testing methods
• Expanded information on the topic of volume calculations of excavations
• A chapter on site services introducing flexible and rigid pavements, storm water control, and a discussion on street lighting
• The chapter on structural steel frames has been reorganized to better illustrate the fabrication and erection of these frames for buildings
• An introduction to the “green building” initiative
• Numerous updated illustrations and photos to reflect current construction practices

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  Andres & Smith
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