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Updated and expanded, The Architect's Portable Handbook answers more questions more quickly than any other building design resource anywhere.
Pat Guthrie's The Architect's Portable Handbook is already the choice of thousands of architects, contractors, and design professionals who seek solid first-step rules of thumb for building design.
Easy to handle and organized in the easy-to-follow CSI Masterformat, which parallels the progress of a typical job, the Handbook offers you quick, accurate, on-the-job guidance on everything from cost estimating to electrical systems.
Featuring materials and specifications checklists, design data for major building materials, and details for major components and assemblies for any type of facility, the updated and expanded Second Edition offers:
- The latest building standards, including the 1997 Uniform Building Code.
- Updated unit costs for building materials, systems, and construction.
- A new simplified version of the national model energy codes.
- Many new examples highlighting key techniques and procedures.
- Several new and revised tables and line drawings.
At start of any design or construction project, architects need to organize all the elements in a logical way. This indispensable time-saver, following the CSI Masterformat "RM," is the proven, one-stop resource architects, builders, and contractors need to get organized on a new job. Pat Guthrie has made this handy reference a portable aide-memoir, with:
- Checklists for planning, programming, and project management.
- General unit costs for major building materials, systems, and construction.
- Codes and standards information.
- Materials and specifications checklists, and a great deal more.
The Architect's Portable Handbook is broader in scope than competing tools while providing just the right level of detail to help you make sound, on-the-spot design decisions every time.
Organized in the same sequence as a typical job progression, this mini-encyclopedia of design criteria helps the architect, designer, or building contractor stay on top of even the most complex job, from preliminary cost estimates to sizing structural members.
The Architect's Portable Handbook, a best-seller in its first edition, has been updated to include 1997 building codes and the latest standards information, updated costs from BNI, and many examples showing new techniques and procedures.
About the Author
John Patten ("Pat") Guthrie, AIA, is principal of John Pat Guthrie Architects, Inc. A resident of Scottsdale, Arizona, Pat has been licensed as an architect in 13 states. |
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