Specifications For Practical Architecture A Guide To The Architect Engineer Surveyor And Builder With An Essay On The Structure And Science Of Modern Buildings

Excerpt from Specifications for Practical Architecture: A Guide to the Architect, Engineer, Surveyor, and Builder; With an Essay on the Structure and Science of Modern Buildings A volume of Specifications of a practical character being greatly required, and the old Standard work of Alfred Bartholomew being out of print, I have taken his work as my basis, and have struck out and altered the preliminary matter, so as to make it more adapted to modern science and requirements. The Specifications I have so altered as to bring in the now universal use of concrete, the more general use of drainage, the use of iron, glass, asphalte. And other material. Where it has seemed to me to be necessary, I have inserted Specifications of works that have been erected in my own practice, and I have added a form for General Conditions and an Agreement. I am confident that the work will be useful in the office of Architects, and all those who have the pleasure or necessity to build. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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