Construction Technology Analysis and Choice

The second edition of Construction Technology: analysis & choice has been expanded to include commercial buildings. This now covers, in a single textbook, all the basic forms of construction studied on professional courses.The book takes as its theme the process of choice: what the expert has to know and how he/she might think through the decisions to be made about the design, production, maintenance and disposal of buildings.It is written with the conviction that by focusing on the process of choice, the range of theory and knowledge that is useful to practice becomes explicit, making the link between knowledge and practice, and between understanding and experience.The new edition has been updated throughout with extensive additions to Chapter13: Manufacture and Assembly; and to Chapter 15: Sustainability. An entire new section - Part III: Commercial Buildings has been added, covering all the main elements of commercial construction,Students will find here explanations of how environments, structural behaviour, production know-how, cost and social concerns such as sustainability can be taken into account in the choice of construction. They will also gain a clear understanding of the construction details and specifications adopted for both housing and commercial buildings in the UK at the beginning of the 21st century. Provides a framework to think through proposed solutions Sets the choice of solution in both time and place, and in the context of sustainability Focuses on key questions: will the proposal fail; and can it be built Considers a building's response to loading, environmental conditions and time Looks at the production process as manufacture and assembly

Tony Bryan has had a prominent role in built environment education in the Faculty of the Built Environment, University of the West of England since 1973 and is now:

· Principal Lecturer in Construction Technology

· Course Leader for development and implementation of BSc Building/BSc Construction Management.

· Responsibility for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses in Department of Construction.

· Head of School of Construction Economics, Management and Engineering Environment

· Director of Teaching and Learning

Preface
Analysis
The Framework for Understanding
Process and knowledge
The initial suggestion
Carrying out the evaluation
Physical and social context
The basis of analysis
Knowledge needed for choice
Summary
Building Purpose and Performance
Activities, space and construction
Introduction to performance requirements
Environmental impact and sustainability
Summary
Common Forms - Specific Solutions
General and constructed forms
The emergence of general building forms
Uncertainty and risk
Summary
Construction Variables
The variables of construction - the outcome of choice
Choosing materials
Choosing shape
Choosing size
Spatial relationships
Joints and fixings
Summary
Defining Conditions
Physical and social conditions
Activity and construction-modifying environments
The dynamics of the system
Choice of interior elements of the building
Inside the construction itself
Summary
The Resource Base
Introduction
Materials - the primary resource
Knowledge and skill - the human resource
Plant and machinery - the technological resource
Money - the enabling resource
Summary
Design Concept
Linking design to construction choice
Concept design - general form
Physical performance and appearance - commodity, firmness and delight
Function of the whole, function of the parts
Summary
Appearance
Visualising attributes and response
Space and context
Physical space for the construction
The approach to analysis
Summary
Analysis of Physical Behaviour
Visualising conditions and response
Function and performance - a technical aim
Preventing failure - a technical objective
The role of observation and science in the analysis
The approach to analysis
Summary
Physical Behaviour Creating Environments
Aspects of environment
The building as a system
The dry environment
The warm environment
The light environment
The acoustic environment
The clean environment
The safe environment
The private environment
Summary
Physical Behaviour Under Load
Forces, external and internal
Basic structural members
Curving, folding structural members
Structural connections
Grid members - pin-jointed frames
Building structures - wind stability
Stress/strain and the choice of material
Structural analysis and design
Movements and structural behaviour
Stresses in the ground
The major structural forms
Summary
Physical Behaviour Over Time
Reliability: renewal, maintenance, repair and disposal
Basis of analysis
Soiling and cleaning
Durability of materials
Movements in components
Ground movement, settlement and subsidence
Movement and detailing
Wear of components
Summary
Manufacture and Assembly
Realisation of performance
Visualising stages and sequence
Analysis of operations, methods and resources
Materials and labour
Production equipment
Production options
Knowledge and expertise for the analysis of the process
Summary
Cost
Cost and value
Cost and price
Cost and time frames
Cost and cost data
Summary
Sustainability - Social Concern
Two major forces
Sustainability
Established influences and new concerns
Responding to the sustainability agenda
Buildings as systems
Renewable energy sources
Water and Waste
Materials choice and detailing
Planning and design concepts
Emerging technologies
Summary
Choice - House Construction
Applying the Framework to Housing
The need for an integrated approach
The basis of the case study
Summary
Floors
Upper floors
General forms for upper floors
Timber joisted upper floors
Ground floors
Suspended ground floors
Ground-supported slab floors
Services and other elements
Site influences on choice of ground floors
Production operations for ground floors
The final choice
Summary
Roofs
Pitch and span
Other functions
Pitched roofs
Flat roofs
Summary
Walls
Wall types by function
General forms
Walls in the case study
Masonry cavity external walls
Openings in the external wall
Doors and windows - the components in the openings
The panel frame option
Party (separating) walls
Partition walls
Summary
Foundations
Basic function
Site investigation
Foundation design
The strip foundation
Foundations for poor surface conditions
Economics of foundations
Basements
Summary
Services
Introduction
Analysis of services systems
Hot and cold water
Heating systems
Drainage
Electrical systems
Summary
Choice - Commercial Construction
Applying the framework to commercial buildings
The story so far
The way forward
The technological mix
Summary
Common forms and emerging technologies
Introduction
UK commercial building through the twentieth century
Low environmental impact
Summary
Interface design
Introduction
The enclosure - services interface
The enclosure - structure interface
The structure - services interface
Summary
Structural skeletal frames
Materials development and structural options
Reinforced concrete - performance
In situ reinforced concrete frames - production
Precast concrete frames - production
Structural steel - performance
Structural steel - fabrication and construction
Structure choice and overall design
Summary
Roof structures
Introduction
Variety of structural form
Broad options
Construction details
Summary
Loadbearing structural walls
Broad options
Multi-storey construction
Single-storey industrial construction
Summary
Structure below ground
Introduction
Foundation design
Foundation types
Soil improvement
Basements
Large area industrial concrete ground floors
Summary
External enclosure to structural frames
Introduction
External walls
Cavity brickwork
Cladding panels
Curtain walling
Facing materials
Lightweight cladding
Structural glazing
Roof construction
Summary
Internal enclosure
Performance
Applied finishes
Component systems
Summary
Services - scope and space
Introduction
Scope
Space
Environmental services
Public health services
Power supply
Security
Operational services
The need for co-ordination
Production sequence and contract time
Cost of services systems
Summary
Guide to Further Reading
What this book provides
Sources of information - authority, validity and relevance
Finding information
Using information - corroboration, confirmation and risk
Summary
Index
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