Commercial Building Construction : Materials and Methods

This hands-on textbook introduces you to commercial building construction methods and materials currently used in the United States and Canada. Easy to read and logically organised to reflect real-world practices, Commercial Building Construction: Materials and Methods includes detailed examples along with hundreds of 3D illustrations that accurately reflect the style of construction drawings and techniques applied in the field today.

You will get a complete set of commercial drawings that is referred to and described throughout the text to correlate related construction practices. Every figure in the book is provided in an image library for viewing on your computer. Included is the most comprehensive construction glossary available. Each chapter has correlated tests, print reading problems, and critical thinking problems. Current content-related actual commercial construction building projects are provided throughout to provide real-world applications.