Structural Renovation of Buildings: Methods, Details, & Design Examples [Hardcover]

Alexander Newman (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0070471622 | ISBN-13: 978-0070471627 | Publication Date: September 8, 2000 | Edition: 1

Make any renovation job go smoother. Building renovation, conservation and reuse represents more than half of all construction work - and is projected to increase to 80% by 2004. Structural Renovation of Buildings, by Alexander Newman, puts a single, convenient source of information about all aspects of structural renovation and strengthening of buildings at your fingertips. While its focus is largely on low and midrise buildings, you can apply the principles it clarifies to buildings of any size - steel-framed, masonry, or wood. Whether you're repairing deteriorated concrete...rehabilitating slabs on grade...strengthening lateral-load resisting systems...renovating a building facade...handling seismic upgrades or fire damage, you'll find this time-and-trouble-saving guide loaded with practical tips, methods, and design examples. It's also heavily illustrated with autoCAD generated details, supplier illustrations of materials, procedural techniques, and much, much more.

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Building renovation is booming, with more than 55 percent of all construction involving renovation, conservation, or reuse. This unique, practical guide, written by renowned engineer Alexander Newman, P.E., explains how to improve the structure of any building. Up-to-date, comprehensive, and packed with illustrations, case studies, and savvy advice drawn from the author's extensive experience, Structural Renovation of Buildings makes it easier for all building professionals to plan structural improvements, and to handle unforeseen contingencies that arise during projects. Alexander Newman shows you how to:

*Make accurate assessments of existing conditions
*Compare options for cost-effective solutions
*Renovate and strengthen buildings of all framing types—steel, concrete, post-tensioned concrete, wood, masonry, and pre-engineered metal
*Deal with real problems most often encountered in renovation and reuse projects
*Perform seismic upgrades of lateral-load-resisting systems,with four actual case studies
*Restore fire-damaged buildings*Repair and strengthen slabs on grade
*Renew facades with improved structural integrity

Helping you build on the past-experience—and improve your and older buildings' future--this one-of-a-kind practical guide is a resource that can provide answers for any structural improvement task.

About the Author

Alexander Newman, P.E., is principal structural engineer with Maguire Group, Inc., a national architectural, engineering and planning firm, in Foxborough, Massachusetts. With two decades of engineering and management experience, he has worked as project engineer with a consulting engineering firm, design engineer with a light-gage framing panel manufacturer, and manager of fabrication for a steel fabricator. He has planned and supervised structural renovation of numerous buildings throughout the country, including a Boston Edison switching and conversion station that won the 1990 American Consulting Engineering Council of New England Award for Engineering Excellence. Mr. Newman holds an advanced degree in structural engineering from the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute in Russia, and a master’s degree in business administration with high honors from Boston University. He is the author of the Bestselling Metal Building Systems, also from McGraw-Hill, and a number of award-winning articles that have appeared in leading engineering publications. Additionally, he conducts continuing-education seminars on metal building systems for design professionals sponsored by the American Society of Civil Engineers and other organizations, and teaches at Northeastern University.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 688 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional; 1 edition (September 8, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0070471622
• ISBN-13: 978-0070471627
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.2 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #244,073 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good handbook for a difficult subject, May 25, 2002

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This review is from: Structural Renovation of Buildings: Methods, Details, & Design Examples (Hardcover)

This book is well organized and presented. It covers a lot, and is more comprehensive than other books of its type. It has very good material on concrete design/repair, and also covers wood structures, steel, and pre-engineered buildings quite well. The material on masonry is also good, but a discussion about rusted steel lintels embedded in masonry would have helpful, as this is a common source of problems in 20th century buildings. There are few handbooks that come as close as this one to a thorough treatment of the subject, and it is a useful book for architects and engineers who deal with renovation.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Pragmatic Building Restoration Guide -- at Last!, September 11, 2007

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This review is from: Structural Renovation of Buildings: Methods, Details, & Design Examples (Hardcover)

While this text explores renovation of a wide variety of building systems -- reinforced and post-tensioned concrete, wood, steel, masonry -- from a structural engineering perspective, it is quite pragmatically written and a non-engineer will derive considerable benefit from it. The book provides an excellent and detailed guide to critical issues that are confronted in period restoration, including making transparent best practices for undertaking the investigative process to evaluate salvagable components and structures for each type of building system. Filled with well-researched historical data about material types, it also contains excellent reference sections at the end of each chapter. An outstanding resource for those who are serious about building restoration.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lots of good ideas for refurbishment, May 12, 2007

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This review is from: Structural Renovation of Buildings: Methods, Details, & Design Examples (Hardcover)

A comprehensive book but with some strange omissions: very little on foundations or restrained brickwork. Also, the section on FRPs looks like it came straight out of a contractor's brochure. But these don't really detract that much. Strongly recommended.