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Wood In Construction : How To Avoid Costly Mistakes
Paperback Edition: 1/2012
Wood in Construction – How to Avoid Costly Mistakes focuses on the basic principles and appropriate use of wood in construction and illustrates how to avoid or minimise problems, to ensure that wood performs as expected when used in a construction application. Based on the
author’s extensive experience of manufacturing processes and practical applications in the timber, construction, joinery, shop-fitting and furniture industries, Wood in Construction provides a guide to using wood in building in the real world. It describes the main causes of difficulty when using wood, and shows how to avoid or minimise problems, reducing the difficulties for the architect, engineer or specifier, builder and building owner.
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Technical enough to explain why things should be done in specific ways, but also practical enough to demonstrate how to use wood correctly and avoid doing the wrong things, this is an invaluable resource for construction specifiers (architects, engineers), carpenters, structural engineers, building surveyors, small/medium sized builders.
Featured in the 2 April 2012 New Zealand newsletter.
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Pages : 220
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Publication date : 2012-03
Subjects: Non-fiction, Science And Technology, Engineering, Building Construction & Materials