Building With Logs
Now completely revised and updated, B. Allan This classic is still considered the best book ever written on making a full sized log home. This enlarged eighth edition, revised in 1997, is filled with numerous major construction improvements, and c...
Building with Logs
Building with Logs
Building With Logs (Legacy Edition)
A Classic Manual for Building Log Cabins, Forest Shelters, and Cabin Furniture This deluxe unabridged reprint Legacy Edition of Building With Logs is full of old-time tips and methods from the forest experts on how to build log cabins, shelters, houses, and buildings with the natural materials from the woods. This nifty handbook originally from 1945 contains excellent drawings, plans, and photos of the day of actual forest service buildings used in practice. This classic book contains instruction on how to find and prepare timbers, cutting and hewing logs, setting buildings and cabins on foundations, variations on cornering and building edges, flooring and roofing, calking and chinking walls, and the tools used for building log cabins and timber structures. Also included are descriptions and drawings for building rustic furnishings. This book makes a perfect gift for folks who long for a weekend in their getaway cabin in the woods, or any person who is into outdoors life, camping, and
Building Peace, Rebuilding Patriarchy
Over the two decades since the adoption of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security, peacebuilding interventions around the globe have increasingly incorporated gender perspectives. These initiatives have used b...
Building with Steel
Detail Practice: Building with Steel is a handbook for quick, goal-oriented reading and implementation. Case study projects exemplify common norm details using large-scale drawings. The fundamentals of planning load-bearing structures provide desi...
Building with Water
Water has been an important topic in architecture and urban planning for years. The revitalization of the waterfront has been a prevalent trend in cities around the world. On the other hand, architecture also had to respond to the threat of floods...
Building with Paper
Building with Paper
Building with Earth
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? ...
Building with Bamboo
Als Baumaterial der warmen Klimazonen erfreut sich Bambus eines wachsenden Interesses unter Architekten der nördlichen Hemisphäre: Bambus hat bei großer Stabilität nicht nur ein geringes Gewicht und ist ausgesprochen elastisch, sondern ist auch reichlich verfügbar. Die Anwendungsbereiche von Bambus in der Architektur haben sich erheblich diversifiziert, sodass heute sogar weitgespannte Konstruktionen wie Brücken daraus gebaut werden. Bambuswerkstoffe, zu denen an renommierten Hochschulen wie der ETH Zürich oder der SUTD in Singapur geforscht wird, haben ebenso die Verwendung erweitert. Die Neuausgabe bietet einen systematischen Überblick über die Einsatzmöglichkeiten und Verarbeitungstechniken dieses nachwachsenden Materials. Die Präsentation von wegweisenden Bambusbauten wurde durch neuere Projekte aktualisiert.
Building With Wood
Natural, renewable, reusable, and aesthetically pleasing, wood is the consummate building material. Thanks to incredible advances in both application and sustainability, it is being used across the world to create new and surprising styles. This e...
Building with Hardwood
Der weltweit boomende Holzbau und dessen rasante Entwicklung bis über die Hochhausgrenze hinaus verlangt Hochleistungswerkstoffe, die durch Laubholz möglich werden. Innovative Produktionsmethoden und Verarbeitungsprozesse lassen wirtschaftlich kon...
Building with Stone
Enhance your life with beautiful and durable stone structures. With easy-to-follow instructions and an approachable style, master stonemason Charles McRaven guides you through a variety of building projects that include walls, dams, bridges, and m...
Building with Earth
Earth, in common use for architectural construction for thousands of years, has in the past thirty years attracted renewed attention as a healthy, environment-friendly and economical building material. What needs to be considered in this context? The manual Building with Earth, which has been translated into many languages, describes the building technology of this material. The physical properties and characteristic values are explained in a hands-on manner: with proper moisture protection, earth buildings are very durable, and in particular the combination with wood or straw allows a wide spectrum of design options. Numerous built examples demonstrate the range of applications for this fully recyclable material. * Fifth and revised edition of the reference work on rammed earth construction * With seven new and relevant international case studies * Many drawings illustrate various construction methods
Building with Paper
Paper and cardboard as sustainable building materials are currently the subject of research and testing. They can be produced inexpensively, are made from renewable raw materials and are completely recyclable. The focus of their application is on ...
Building with Cob
The ancient method of cob building uses a simple mixture of clay sub-soil, aggregate, straw and water to create solid structural walls built without shuttering or forms, onto a stone plinth. It is now undergoing a renaissance as an 'eco-friendly' ...
Intelligent Buildings and Building Automation
Giving you a combination of general principles, applied practice and information on the state-of-the-art, this book will give you the information you need to incorporate the latest systems and technologies into your building projects. It focuses o...
Building Physics of the Envelope
The facade is the buildings interface with its environment. It is here that building physics parameters such as heat, humidity, sound and light interact with the building. All these influences need to be controlled by the building envelope in orde...
Living with Buildings
'A remarkable book; surprisingly gripping and often very moving ... at once disorientating and illuminating.' - Robert Macfarlane We shape ourselves, and are shaped in return, by the walls that contain us. Buildings affect how we sleep, work, soci...
Building with Straw Bales
An updated, fully revised, full-colour edition of the definitive manual on building with straw bales, described by Grand Designs as an 'essential guide'. Straw-bale buildings are cost-effective, easy to build and highly energy efficient, enabling ...
Building Tools with GitHub
For your next project on GitHub, take advantage of the service's powerful API to meet your unique development requirements. This practical guide shows you how to build your own software tools for customizing the GitHub workflow. Each hands-on chap...
Building Applications with iBeacon
High-precision location information is increasingly useful for mobile application developers, since it allows devices to interact with the world around them. This practical book shows you how to achieve arm's reach accuracy with iBeacons, simple t...
Building Chatbots with Python
Build your own chatbot using Python and open source tools. This book begins with an introduction to chatbots where you will gain vital information on their architecture. You will then dive straight into natural language processing with the natural...
Building Forms with Vue.js
Learn how to build dynamic schema-driven forms with Vue from scratch Key Features Understand the basics of form component composition Scale and integrate your forms with libraries such as Vuex and Vuelidate Convert any form into a self-generated s...
Building Microservices with Go
Your one-stop guide to the common patterns and practices, showing you how to apply these using the Go programming language About This Book * This short, concise, and practical guide is packed with real-world examples of building microservices with...
Open Building for Architects
Open Building is an internationally recognized approach to the design of buildings and building complexes with roots in the way the ordinary built environment grows and regenerates. The Open Building approach recognizes that both stability and cha...
Building a Log Cabin
2015 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Whether a pioneer log cabin in a clearing or a comfortable, smoothly build lodge at the lake is desired, this is the book for ...
Technology for Facility Managers
From BIM (building information modeling) to RFID (radio frequency identification) to BAS (building automation and control systems), facility managers of today's commercial buildings are often asked to work with a variety of technologies w...
Building Physics
The book presents the theoretical background of building physics, dealing with the evaluation of physical phenomena related to heat transfer and energy use in buildings, water and water vapour transfer in building structures, daylighting and elect...
Basics Baukonstruktion
Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as masonry or timber buildings. On the b...
Basics Building Construction
Each type of construction has its special characteristics which cannot be compared with those of other building materials. The first building construction designs in the architectural curriculum are planned as masonry or timber buildings. On the b...
Building Services Design for Energy Efficient Buildings
The role and influence of building services engineers are undergoing rapid change and are pivotal to achieving low-carbon buildings. However, textbooks in the field have tended to remain fairly traditional with a detailed focus on the technicaliti...
Quilting with Curves
Discover how exciting (and easy) it is to sew curves in your patchwork projects with 20 geometric-patterned quilt patterns. Sew basic to complex curves in small and large quilts.
LOIS Logos
George Lois is an American icon in graphic design. This book showcases his logos with his own comments on why they work. A bonus in the book is a chapter of world logos made by others with George Lois's comments on why they are so good. George Loi...
The Dog Walker
Stan would love a dog but he lives in a tall building in a city. One day, he sees a man walking lots of dogs. Maybe Stan could get a dog after all!
Roman Building
Now in paperback, Roman Buildings is a thorough and systematic examination of Roman architecture and building practice, with over 750 illustrations . It looks at large- scale public buildings as well as more modest homes and shops. Placing emphasi...