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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Tall Buildings Construction
This book is fairly well written. I noticed a few typos / factual errors, but that tends to be true of a lot of technical books that are published nowadays. I think the technical content of the book has been worth the purchase price. The book covers a variety of general technical issues related to the construction of tall buildings, sometimes on difficult site...
Published on February 22, 2006 by M. J. Ballou
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Not directly applicable to US market
I was searching for a book regarding high-rise concrete construction and settled on this one. As I suspected, the information in this book does not represent how things are done in the US market. (NOTE: Bamboo scaffolding on page 305 and shirtless/shoeless workers on page 213). The portion of the 417 page book related to concrete frame construction is only 20 pages. The...
Published on March 31, 2007 by boatman
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not directly applicable to US market,
By boatman (LA, CA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Construction Technology for Tall Buildings (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
I was searching for a book regarding high-rise concrete construction and settled on this one. As I suspected, the information in this book does not represent how things are done in the US market. (NOTE: Bamboo scaffolding on page 305 and shirtless/shoeless workers on page 213). The portion of the 417 page book related to concrete frame construction is only 20 pages. The book is not entirely useless but covers all topics only very briefly.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Construction Technology for Tall Buildings (2nd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is fairly well written. I noticed a few typos / factual errors, but that tends to be true of a lot of technical books that are published nowadays. I think the technical content of the book has been worth the purchase price. The book covers a variety of general technical issues related to the construction of tall buildings, sometimes on difficult site conditions. A good overview of the subject. Tends to focus primarily on structural engineering issues, which as a structural engineer myself, I appreciate.
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Construction Technology for Tall Buildings (2nd Edition) by M. Y. L. Chew (Paperback - Dec. 2000)
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