Description
New edition of the popular handbook
The Modern Construction Handbook has become a classic of advanced construction literature, not least due to its regular revisions and clear structure with chapters titled “Material”, “Wall”, “Roof”, “Structure”, “Environment,” and “Applications”.
Tried and tested component details, examples focusing on sustainability and energy consumption, and an update on finite element analysis (FEA) and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) introduced in the last edition set new standards for this handbook which serves as a foundational textbook in many architecture courses.
As a primer Handbook to building design, it is a starting point for the more advanced books Modern Construction Envelopes, Modern Construction Case Studies, Modern Environmental Design and Modern Structural Design by Andrew Watts.
Relevant details and examples for studies
The most important aspects of building design covered in six chapters
Project-neutral drawings
CONTENTS
ntroduction
- Introduction to fourth edition
- Structure and envelope
- Parametric design
1. Materials
- Steel
- Aluminium
- Copper, zinc, lead
- Stone
- Glass
- Concrete
- Fibre reinforced concrete
- Ceramics
- Timber
- Polymers
- Material testing
2. Walls
- Trends in facade design
- Generic wall types
- Metal
- Glass systems
- Concrete
- Masonry
- Fibre reinforced polymers
- Timber
3. Roofs
- Trends in roof design
- Metal roofs
- Glass roofs
- Concrete roofs
- Timber roofs
- Fibre reinforced polymer roofs
- Fabric systems
4. Structure
- Material systems for structures
- Elements of structures
- Braced frames
- Portal frames
- Loadbearing boxes
- Trusses
- Arches and shells
- Space grids
- Floor structures
- Stairs
5. Environment
- Environmental studies for envelopes
- Analysis for design
- Low energy material systems
- Active design
- Support services
- Performance testing of facade material systems
- Performance testing of roof material systems
6. Applications
- 1 Working with industry: manufacturers and fabricators
- 2 Triangular panels for twisted facades
- 3 Twisted panels with flat glass for curved facades
- 4 Solar shading louvres
- 5 Double-skin facades
- 6 Precast concrete panels for facades of complex geometry
- 7 Exoskeleton facades of complex geometry
- 8 Diagrid structures
- 9 Hybrid systems forming facades of complex geometry
- 10 Opaque cladding interface with full-height glazing
- 11 Complex curved glazed roofs
- 12 Large-scale glazed facades
- 13 Panelisation of complex building surface geometry
- 14 Opaque rainscreen cladding
- 15 Full-height glazing with GRP-clad structural frame
- 16 GRC cladding interfaces
- 17 Full-height entrance glazing
- 18 GRP louvres on stick glazing system
- 19 GRC cladding
- 20 Windows in GRC cladding
- 21 Windows and unitised glazing with GRC cladding
- 22 Unitised glazing with GRC cladding
- 23 Complex glazed roofs with supporting steel structure
- 24 Glazed roofs with complex geometry
- 25 Louvres and stick glazing
7. References
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