Author Description

Provides structural engineers, architects, contractors, and professionals who are only occasionally engaged in building design and construction, with samples of contract drawings for commercial construction projects that illustrate the necessary structural details. Explains what should be shown and specified, and the conventions for doing so in accompanying text and notes. Covers foundations, concrete, masonry, steel, and timber. Assumes readers already know how to render the drawings, either by hand or computer. No bibliography. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.