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Design & Construction eBooks
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Building Care
By: Wood, Brian
Published by: Blackwell Publishing, Ltd
Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design. A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM - preventative planned maintenance; JIT - just in time) are explained, together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.
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Price: $50.95
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Building Your Own Home For Dummies®
By: Daum, Kevin; Brewster, Janice; Economy, Peter
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
How to build a dream house–without breaking the bank
Packed with useful information, tips, and checklists, this easy-to-follow guide shows people step by step how to build a unique, beautiful home on any budget. It covers all the must-know issues, from acquiring land, finding the best architect, and cutting design costs to putting together financing, hiring (or not hiring) a general contractor, and overseeing construction.
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Price: $19.99
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Building Your Straw Bale Home
By: Hodge, Brian
Published by: CSIRO Publishing
One of the primary concerns of owner-builders is their capacity to deal with the structural issues associated with building a straw bale house. This practical guide is written especially for the owner-builder and provides the reader with step-by-step practical instructions supported by diagrams and photographs.
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Price: $56.00
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Feng Shui
By: Moran, Elizabeth; Yu, Joseph; Biktashev, Val
Published by: Alpha Books
“An American masterpiece that tops the lot.”. —Feng Shui For Modern Living. Considered the feng shui bible by classical practitioners and teachers, The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Feng Shui has been updated to include more case studies and feng shui readings to make the practical application of feng shui even more accessible; new chapters feature before and after photos of feng shui makeovers and explain Ming Gua—the Guardian Star that influences a person’s character—and much more. * One of the few Western books that focuses on “classical” feng shui, which is growing in popularity now that the topic has become more mainstream. * Joseph Yu is one of only five world-renowned classical feng shui masters.
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Price: $18.95
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Defects and Deterioration in Buildings
By: Richardson, B
Published by: Spon Press
A professional reference designed to assist surveyors, engineers, architects and contractors in diagnosing existing problems and avoiding them in new buildings.
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Price: $180.00
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Design for Assisted Living
By: Regnier, Victor
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (US)
Spurred by increases in the oldest-old population, long-term care has been reinvented in the form of attractive, homelike settings. Design for Assisted Living provides solutions to the challenges of creating these environments now and into the future. This visually rich book gives a complete overview of designing for the mentally and physically frail elderly. Research garnered from hundreds of buildings in the United States and northern Europe is presented here in design directives, case studies, and practical guidelines.
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Price: $99.00
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Earthbag Building
By: Hunter, Kaki; Kiffmeyer, Donald
Published by: New Society Publishers
Offers an approach to construction techniques for building with bags filled with earth, and discusses the many merits of earthbag construction.
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Price: $29.95
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Home Building Contractor Secrets
By: Morton, Lane W.
Published by: Krug Publishing
Are you planning on building the home you’ve always dreamed of? Getting ready to do some major renovations to your existing home? Would you like to pay wholesale prices for your home?
Is your spouse’s talk of three-car garages and marble countertops beginning to make you a little nervous? Of course it is! At the rate you’re going, you’ll be mortgaged to the hilt for the next thirty years!
What if you could have the house that you’ve always dreamed of...for tens of thousands of dollars less than market price? What if you could buy wholesale and save 10 to 30 percent on the price of your home?
Sound good? Then take advantage of author Lane W. Moore’s twenty-five years of building experience. For the first time ever, you can get the secrets of the pros...in a format that anyone can follow!
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Price: $9.77
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Lit Interior
By: Fielder, William J.
Published by: Architectural Press (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
Presents an organised, comprehensive and easy to understand overview of the lighting design process. It covers every topic from the nature of light itself, through selecting the correct equipment, to preparing project plans and the finished design documents. Using a dummy example the student is taken through an entire project step by step where the full range of alternatives and design processes are illustrated. The easy to read conversational tone makes the novice feel at home with complex technical concepts and provides an excellent introduction to all newcomers to the subject. The book is ideal for those working in architecture, electrical engineering and interior design who will one day design lighting systems for others to build. A companion website runs alongside the book, at http://litinterior.com/, supporting distance learning projects, providing manufacturers data, calculation engines and downloadable courses for carrying our design exercises. The content of the courses will be linked directly to the book. Includes US codes and standards.
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Price: $41.95
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More Straw Bale Building
By: Magwood, Chris; Mack, Peter; Therrien, Tina
Published by: New Society Publishers
A complete guide to designing and building with straw.
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Price: $32.95
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