Creating the Built Environment - The Practicalities of Designing, Constructing and Owning Buildings

List of contents

Our built enironments. Internal environment. External environment. Building structure. Improving our built environments. Scheme design. Design efficiency. Detail design. Communicating the design. Construction. Total building process. Managing projects. Dimensional relations. Products quantities. Process durations. Business environment. Cost analysis and cost equivalents. Contracts. Estimating and tendering. Pricing bills of quantities. Managing cost and value. Appendices.

About the author

Leslie Holes

Summary

The purpose of this book is to explain what buildings are and to provide an integrated overview of how they are built and sustained.

Product details

• Authors: Leslie Holes, Holes Leslie
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9781138408890
• ISBN: 978-1-138-40889-0
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Structural and environmental engineering; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Construction / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, Building construction & materials, Building construction and materials, Construction & heavy industry, Construction and heavy industry