Stay on top of construction details and procedures with the help of this illustrated data handbook. It offers fast access to hundreds of tables, charts, diagrams, and illustrations, covering all the components of construction utilized at a typical job site.This complete reference manual will provide you wiht a single source of specifications, codes, checklists, conversion factors, and "how-to" instructions for the most commonly used construction materials, including lumber, masonry, concrete, steel, doors, windows, hardware, and mechanical and electrical components.
This book focuses exclusively on mathematics as it is applied to actual construction practice. As such, topics specific to the construction industry are presented, as well as essential areas for Level 2 craft NVQs, which are not typically found in traditional, lower level math texts - for example, costing calculations, labor costs, cost of materials, preparation of scale drawings, and setting out of building components
