Riley, Mike

Construction technology 2 : industrial and commercial building Mike Riley and Alison Cotgrave - 3rd ed. - Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, c2014. - viii, 427 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

PART I: PREPARING TO BUILD 1. Functions and Requirements of Industrial and Commercial Buildings 2. The Building Process 3. Preparing to Build PART II: BUILDING SUBSTRUCTURE 4. Foundations 5. Walls Below Ground and Basement Construction 6. Ground Floors PART III: BUILDING SUPERSTRUCTURE 7. High-rise Buildings 8. Long-span Frames 9. Fire Engineering Design 10. External Walls and Claddings for Multi-storey and Large-span Commercial Buildings 11. Upper Floors and Internal Access 12. Roof Construction 13. Internal Division of Space and Integration of Services PART IV: SUSTAINABLE BUILDING SERVICES 14. Sustainable Building Services

This work provides a single text to support the learning process associated with the study of the construction of industrial and commercial buildings. The text includes a series of learning sessions or modules covering individual components of the topic.

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Industrial buildings--Design and construction--Great Britain
Commercial buildings--Design and construction--Great Britain