Find practical engineering and advanced framing techniques for builders and remodelers. Advice on using the latest building materials and methods helps create strong, durable, high-quality structures
With this easy-to-understand guide you'll learn how to calculate loads, size joists and beams, and tackle many common structural problems facing residential contractors -- including cantilevered floors, complex roof structures, tall window ...
Provides technical information on building structure and framing to residential builders and remodelers.
This Second Edition Updated and Expanded: Includes hundreds of full-color illustrations depicting step-by-step framing techniques Offers guidance on today's electric tools and structural enhancements for natural disasters Features a revised ...
An anthology on practical articles on house framing from THE JOURNAL OF LIGHT CONSTRUCTION, long a leader in supplying authoritative how-to information to building contractors and designers. ADVANCED FRAMING is...
Starts out with detailed coverage of standard building materials and up-to-date how-to information about modern power tools and safety requirements...explores all the standard framing methods...demystifies some of the more obscure tasks, ...
Ultimate Guide to House Framing House framing provides you with the information and construction techniques you need to know to frame your dream home.
Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.In-depth coverage of steel...
This practical guide provides a graphic medium of communication between architects, engineers, contractors, and students engaged in the design and construction of wood framed buildings.
Here for the first time is a complete visual handbook designed for architects, builders, students, and anyone else interested in wood-frame construction.
Productivity Comparisons The Group Timing Technique was used to compare the time required to build the walls and roof structure of both the welded - wire sandwich panel house and a conventional wood - framed home in the same region .