This is the pictorial guide through the maze of building codes requirements! When it comes to understanding the notoriously complex code requirements governing the health, safety, and welfare performance of buildings, there's never been a more powerful resource than the "Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook". Heavily updated and packed with over 400 pages of informative illustrations, this indispensable volume will help you decipher complicated standards and get fast, positive responses on plan submissions - avoiding costly revisions and re-designs.Perfect for the professional and student alike, this one-stop reference also: provides details and drawings for visualizing solutions; interprets code requirements with illustrations, examples, explanations, and experience; helps solve both nonstandard and routine situations with case study examples; brings recent graduates up-to-speed on real-world design requirements; and much, much more! Written with authority by a renowned architect and professor, the "Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook" will help you apply these essential regulations with confidence. Understand codes covering: fire protection systems; means of egress; exterior walls; fire-resistance ratings; concrete; steel; wood; masonry; plastic; accessibility; and more!
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THE PICTORIAL GUIDE THROUGH THE MAZE OF BUILDING CODES REQUIREMENTS! When it comes to understanding the notoriously complex code requirements governing the health, safety, and welfare performance of buildings, there's never been a more powerful resource than the Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook. Heavily updated and packed with over 400 pages of informative illustrations, this indispensable volume will help you decipher complicated standards and get fast, positive responses on plan submissions -- avoiding costly revisions and re-designs. Perfect for the professional and student alike, this one-stop reference also:
* Provides details and drawings for visualizing solutions
* Interprets code requirements with illustrations, examples, explanations, and experience
* Helps solve both nonstandard and routine situations with case study examples
* Brings recent graduates up-to-speed on real-world design requirements
* And much, much more! Written with authority by a renowned architect and professor, the Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook will help you apply these essential regulations with confidence. Understand codes covering:
* Fire Protection Systems
* Means of Egress
* Exterior Walls
* Fire-Resistance Ratings
* Concrete
* Steel
* Wood
* Masonry
* Plastic
* Accessibility
* And more!
* Provides details and drawings for visualizing solutions
* Interprets code requirements with illustrations, examples, explanations, and experience
* Helps solve both nonstandard and routine situations with case study examples
* Brings recent graduates up-to-speed on real-world design requirements
* And much, much more! Written with authority by a renowned architect and professor, the Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook will help you apply these essential regulations with confidence. Understand codes covering:
* Fire Protection Systems
* Means of Egress
* Exterior Walls
* Fire-Resistance Ratings
* Concrete
* Steel
* Wood
* Masonry
* Plastic
* Accessibility
* And more!
About the Author
Terry L. Patterson (Norman, OK) is a licensed architect and a tenured professor of architecture at the University of Oklahoma in Norman. Educated at Kansas State (B.A.) and Pratt Institute (M.A.), he has more than 30 years of professional experience, and more than 25 years of teaching experience. Terry is also a widely published author of several books, among them: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Meaning of Materials (VNR/Wiley), Construction Materials for Architects and Designers (Prentice Hall), and the Student Workbook and Instructor's Manual for Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods (VNR/Wiley), as well as Illustrated 2000 Building Code Handbook (M-H).
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This review is from: Illustrated 2003 Building Code Handbook (Hardcover)
While it is always difficult to criticise, I found this book to be useless. It is essentially a rephrasing of some sections of the code it claims to "illustrate". Although there are drawings, they are oversimplified and do not covey and deeper understanding of the intent of the code, in the way some of the NFPA code handbooks do for that code.
A much better book that illuminate and enlightens readers on the intent of the IBC and does it with good accompanying graphics is Frank Ching's book.
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Empirical Design of Masonry, Given Max, International Mechanical Code, International Fire Code, Lee's Summit, New York, High-Hazard Group, Installation of Wall Coverings, Ankrom Moisan Associated Architects, Lake Forest, Automatic Sprinkler Systems, Minimum Plumbing Fixtures Required Occupant, Bear Creek, Gossen Livingston Associates, Santa Barbara, Phillips Metsch Sweeney Moore Architects, Special Occupancies, Lavs Bathtub, Area Modifications, Equivalent Opening Factors, Maximum Allowable Quantity, David Woodhouse Architects, Pressure Processes, San Antonio, Assembly Group New!
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