Short description
This handbook deals with all the principal building types, and for each building type it gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data. Several chapters also deal with general aspects of building.
Long description
This handbook deals with all the principal building types from airports, factories and warehouses, to schools, religious buildings and libraries. For each building type it gives the basic design requirements and all the principal dimensional data. Several chapters deal with general aspects of building such as materials, lighting, acoustics and tropical design. There are also sections on general design data, including details of human dimensions and space requirements.
Review
This is a brilliant book! As a design manager for a large construction company, it is invaluable to have a ready source of all those data that allow me to check for a complete and workable. Just about every type of public and private building or facility is dealt with, from farms to factories and from law courts to laboratories.' Customer Comment from customer on Amazon.co.uk
Table of contents
- Notation
- Basic Design Data
- Design and Construction Practice and Techniques
- Re-use/Refurbishment/Whole Life Costs
- Design Basics: Buildings & Movement
- Design Basics: Spaces/Urban Design
- Houses and Flats
- Student housing
- Homes for the elderly
- Hotels
- Offices
- Retail Trading
- Factories and Workshops
- Industrial Storage
- Agricultural Buildings
- Eating and Drinking
- Sports Facilities: Indoor
- Sports Facilities: Outdoor
- Leisure and Community Facilities
- Schools and Nurseries
- Higher Education
- Laboratories
- Primary Health Care
- Hospitals
- Payment offices
- Public Buildings
- Museums and Art Galleries/Visitor Centres
- Libraries and Information Centres / Archives
- Terminals and Transport Interchanges
- Parking
- Sound and Vision Studios
- Auditoria
- Places of Worship
- Structure
- Materials
- Doors/Windows/Stairs
- Heating and Ventilation
- Light
- Sound
- Fire
- Security
- Designing for the Disabled
- Access for Maintenance
- Service Distribution