The second edition of Construction Technology: Analysis and
Choice has been expanded to include commercial buildings. This
now covers, in a single textbook, all the basic forms of
construction studied on professional courses.
The book takes as its theme the process of choice: what the
expert has to know and how he/she might think through the decisions
to be made about the design, production, maintenance and disposal
of buildings.
It is written with the conviction that by focusing on the
process of choice, the range of theory and knowledge that is useful
to practice becomes explicit, making the link between knowledge and
practice, and between understanding and experience.
The new edition has been updated throughout with extensive
additions to Chapter13: Manufacture and Assembly and to
Chapter 15: Sustainability. An entire new section has been
added, covering all the main elements of commercial
construction.
Students will find here explanations of how environments,
structural behaviour, production know-how, cost and social concerns
such as sustainability can be taken into account in the choice of
construction. They will also gain a clear understanding of the
construction details and specifications adopted for both housing
and commercial buildings in the UK at the beginning of the 21st
century.
* Provides a framework to think through proposed solutions
* Sets the choice of solution in both time and place, and in the
context of sustainability
* Focuses on key questions: will the proposal fail; and can it be
built?
* Considers a building's response to loading, environmental
conditions and time
* Looks at the production process as manufacture and
assembly
Book website at
www.wiley.com/go/bryanconstructiontech2e
Contains nearly 200 fully referenced, clear line drawings to
download for free, as well as suggested learning activities for
lecturers to incorporate into their teaching programmes.
Autorentext
Tony Bryan is a Principal Lecturer in Construction Technology in the Faculty of Environment and Technology, University of the West of England.
Zusammenfassung
The second edition of Construction Technology: Analysis and Choice has been expanded to include commercial buildings. This now covers, in a single textbook, all the basic forms of construction studied on professional courses.
The book takes as its theme the process of choice: what the expert has to know and how he/she might think through the decisions to be made about the design, production, maintenance and disposal of buildings.
It is written with the conviction that by focusing on the process of choice, the range of theory and knowledge that is useful to practice becomes explicit, making the link between knowledge and practice, and between understanding and experience.
The new edition has been updated throughout with extensive additions to Chapter13: Manufacture and Assembly and to Chapter 15: Sustainability. An entire new section has been added, covering all the main elements of commercial construction.
Students will find here explanations of how environments, structural behaviour, production know-how, cost and social concerns such as sustainability can be taken into account in the choice of construction. They will also gain a clear understanding of the construction details and specifications adopted for both housing and commercial buildings in the UK at the beginning of the 21st century.
- Provides a framework to think through proposed solutions
- Sets the choice of solution in both time and place, and in the context of sustainability
- Focuses on key questions: will the proposal fail; and can it be built?
- Considers a building's response to loading, environmental conditions and time
- Looks at the production process as manufacture and assembly
Book website at www.wiley.com/go/bryanconstructiontech2e
Contains nearly 200 fully referenced, clear line drawings to download for free, as well as suggested learning activities for lecturers to incorporate into their teaching programmes.
Inhalt
Preface ix
Part 1 Analysis 1
1 The Framework for Understanding 3
Process and knowledge 3
The initial suggestion 4
Carrying out the evaluation 4
Physical and social context 5
The basis of analysis 6
Knowledge needed for choice 7
Summary 8
2 Building Purpose and Performance 9
Activities, space and construction 9
Introduction to performance requirements 9
Environmental impact and sustainability 17
Summary 17
3 Common Forms - Specific Solutions 18
General and constructed forms 18
The emergence of general building forms 18
Uncertainty and risk 22
Summary 23
4 Construction Variables 24
The variables of construction - the outcome of choice 24
Choosing materials 25
Choosing shape 27
Choosing size 27
Spatial relationships 32
Joints and fixings 32
Summary 35
5 Defining Conditions 37
Physical and social conditions 37
Activity and construction-modifying environments 38
The dynamics of the system 38
Choice of interior elements of the building 42
Inside the construction itself 42
Summary 43
6 The Resource Base 44
Introduction 44
Materials - the primary resource 44
Knowledge and skill - the human resource 45
Production equipment - the technological resource 46
Money - the enabling resource 47
Summary 48
7 Design Concept 49
Linking design to construction choice -flows and transfers 49
Concept design - broad options 50
Physical performance and appearance -commodity, firmness and delight 50
Function of the whole, function of the parts 51
Summary 52
8 Appearance 53
Visualising attributes and response 53
Space and context 53
Physical space for the construction 55
The approach to analysis 56
Summary 56
9 Analysis of Physical Behaviour 57
Visualising conditions and response 57
Function and performance - a technical aim 57
Preventing failure - a technical objective 57
The role of observation and science in the analysis 58
The approach to analysis 59
Summary 59
10 Physical Behaviour Creating Environments 60
Aspects of environment 60
The building as a system 60
The dry environment 65
The warm environment 72
The light environment 78
The acoustic environment 82
The clean environment 86
The safe environment 88
The private environment 96
Summary 97
11 Physical Behaviour Under Load 98
Forces, external and internal 98
Basic structural members 100
Curving (and folding) structural members 104
Structural connections 105
Grid members - pin-jointed frames 107
Building structures - wind stability 108
Stress-strain and the choice of material 110
Structural analysis and design 111
Movements and structural behaviour 112
Stresses in the ground 112
The major structural forms 114
Summary 117
12 Physical Behaviour Over Time 119
Reliability: renewal, maintenance, repair and disposal 119
Basis of analysis 120
Soiling and cleaning 120
Durability of materials 121
Movements in components 124
Ground movement, settlement and subsidence 127
Movement and detailing 128
Wear of co…