Customer Reviews

Principles and Practices of Commercial Construction (8th Edition)

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Excellent book to use if you are studying for a licensing exam or just to expand your understanding. It contained a summary of many other books like excavation and cementing. It had a nice cross of information from all aspects of commercial construction. Highly recommended!!

This text-type book is a general overview and easy read on today's commercial construction practices. I found it thought provoking and a great start for someone interested in this career field. There were many examples and scenarios to provide the reader with a better understanding of the topics. I would recommend this book.

I bought this book for the General Contractor exam. It is also an excellent reference book for people working in the construction business.

The book gives narrative descriptions of the different possiblities for building componets used in commercial construction. It basically says " here are the choices." But, it does not provide the constructability, cost, and site management information necessary to evaluate which of these choices would be best for a particular project. Nor does it provide the information to best approach the execution of the project once a collection of project components is selected.

Although this is intended primarily as a technical book, a little managerial information would have been helpful to evaluate these techical components.

Choosing Project Success - A Guide for Building Professionals

This book was necessary for the WV general contractors exam. It still remains a good resource to hold on to in the future.