Construction Technology Fourth Edition

There are two general aspects to the construction of buildings:
n conventional or traditional methods;

n modern or industrialised methods.

Conventional or traditional methods are studied in the first two years of most
construction courses, with the intention of forming a sound knowledge base
before proceeding to studies of advanced techniques in the final years.

There is, nevertheless, an element of continuity and overlap between traditional and
contemporary, and both are frequently deployed on the same building, e.g.
traditional brick facing to a prefabricated steel-framed commercial building or
to a factory-made timber-framed house.

Initial studies of building construction concentrate on the smaller type of

structure, such as a domestic dwelling of one or two storeys built by labour-
intensive traditional methods. Generally it is more economic to construct this

type of building by these methods, unless large numbers of similar units are
required on the same site. In these circumstances, economies of scale may justify
factory-manufactured, prefabricated elements of structure.

These industrialised methods are usually a rationalised manufacturing process used to produce complete elements, i.e. floors, walls, roof frames, etc.

In modules or standardised dimensional increments of 300 mm.
Very few building contractors in the UK and other developed countries employ
many staff directly.

They are therefore relatively small companies when compared
with the capital value of the work they undertake.

This is partly due to the variable
economic fortunes of the construction industry and the need for flexibility.

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Construction Calculations Manual

 

Construction Calculations provides the construction, engineering, and project owner community with a single

source guide for many of the formulas and conversion factors that are frequently encountered during the design and construction phase of a project.

The geometry and trigonometry lessons learned years ago sometimes need refreshing. Construction Calculations provides a refresher course on some of the formulas and concepts that tend to crop up from time to time.

A book divided into sections devoted to most of the common components of construction makes it easier

to determine how to achieve a Sound Transmission Coefficient (STC) rating of 50, for example, or how to equate
the amperage capacity of copper and aluminum cable of the same wire size.

A detailed index preceding each section makes it easy to locate the answer to one’s question or at least points
the way to its solution.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) (formerly the National Bureau of Standards) was

established by Act of Congress in 1901 to serve as a national scientific laboratory in the physical sciences, and to

provide fundamental measurement standards for science and industry. In carrying out these related functions, the

Institute conducts research and development in many fields of physics, mathematics, chemistry, and engineering.

At the time of its founding, the Institute had custody of two primary standards—the meter bar for length and

the kilogram cylinder for mass. With the phenomenal growth of science and technology over the past century,

the Institute has become a major research institution concerned not only with everyday weights and measures,

but also with hundreds of other scientific and engineering standards that are necessary to the industrial progress

of the nation. Nevertheless, the country still looks to NIST for information on the units of measurement,
particularly their definitions and equivalents.

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