Das "Modern Construction Handbook" hat sich zu einem Klassiker der Baukonstruktions-Literatur entwickelt. In den USA ist es die Grundlage vieler Architektur-Studiengänge. Systematisch erschließt es die Materie und ermöglicht dem Leser eine effiziente Orientierung. Ein Großteil der 3D-Darstellungen wurde aktualisiert, ebenso sind die technischen Informationen. Ein kompaktes Handbuch, das sich an Studenten wie an junge Praktiker richtet.

• CONTENTS
• INTRODUCTION
  • Introduction to fourth edition
  • Structure and envelope
  • Parametric design
• 1. MATERIALS
  • 1. Steel
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 2. Aluminium
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 3. Copper, zinc and lead
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 4. Stone
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 5. Glass
    • Production
    • Performance
  • 6. Concrete
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 7. Fibre reinforced concrete
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 8. Ceramics
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 9. Timber
    • Production
    • Performance
    • Applications
  • 10. Polymers
    • Production
    • Performance
  • 11. Material testing
    • Testing of building materials
• 2. WALLS
  • Trends in facade design
  • Generic wall types
  • Metal
    • 1. Sheet metal
    • 2. Profiled cladding
    • 3. Composite panels
    • 4. Rainscreens
    • 5. Mesh screens
    • 6. Louvre screens
  • Glass systems
    • 1. Stick systems
    • 2. Unitised glazing
    • 3. Clamped glazing
    • 4. Bolt fixed glazing
    • 5. Glass blocks and channels
    • 6. Steel windows
    • 7. Aluminium windows
    • 8. Timber windows
  • Concrete
    • 1. Cast in-situ
    • 2. Storey height panels
    • 3. Small precast panels
  • Masonry
    • 1. Loadbearing walls
    • 2. Cavity walls Brick
      • Stone and block
    • 3. Cladding
    • 4. Rainscreens
  • Fibre reinforced polymers
    • 1. FRP cladding
    • 2. FRP rainscreens
  • Timber
    • 1. Timber frame
    • 2. Cladding panels
• 3. ROOFS
  • Trends in roof design
  • Metal roofs
    • 1. Metal standing seam
    • 2. Profiled metal sheet
    • 3. Composite panels
    • 4. Rainscreens
    • 5. Metal louvres
  • Glass roofs
    • 1. Greenhouse glazing and capped systems
    • 2. Silicone-sealed glazing and rooflights
    • 3. Bolt fixed glazing
    • 4. Bonded glass rooflights
  • Concrete roofs
    • 1. Concealed membrane
    • 2. Exposed membrane
    • 3. Planted roof
  • Timber roofs
    • 1. Flat roof: mastic asphalt coverings
    • 2. Flat roof: bitumen-based sheet
    • 3. Pitched roof: tiles
  • Fibre reinforced polymer roofs
    • 1. FRP rooflights
    • 2. FRP panels and shells
  • Fabric systems
    • 1. ETFE cushions
    • 2. Single membrane: cone-shaped roof
    • 3. Single membrane: barrel-shaped roof
• 4. STRUCTURE
  • Material systems for structures
  • Elements of structures
  • Braced frames
    • 1. Reinforced concrete
    • 2. Steel
    • 3. Timber
  • Portal frames
  • Loadbearing boxes
    • 1. Reinforced concrete
    • 2. Brick
    • 3. Glass
  • Trusses
  • Arches and shells
  • Space grids
  • Floor structures
    • 1. Cast in-situ / cast-in-place concrete
    • 2. Precast concrete
    • 3. Steel and steel mesh
    • 4. Timber
    • 5. Glass
  • Stairs
    • 1. Concrete
    • 2. Steel
    • 3. Timber
    • 4. Glass
• 5. ENVIRONMENT
  • Environmental studies for envelopes
  • Analysis for design
    • 1. Solar radiation
    • 2. Daylight
    • 3. Thermal performance
    • 4. Wind
    • 5. Solar shading
    • 6. Double skin facades
    • 7. Natural ventilation
    • 8. Thermal mass
  • Low energy material systems
    • 1. Embodied energy
    • 2. Green walls
  • Active design
    • 1. Liquid based heating/cooling systems
    • 2. Mechanical heating/cooling systems
    • 3. Electrical lighting
    • 4. Raised floors
    • 5. Internal ceilings
  • Support services
    • 1. Sanitation and drainage
    • 1. Maintenance and cleaning
    • 2. Lifts
  • Performance testing of facade material systems
  • Performance testing of roof material systems
• 6. APPLICATIONS
  • 1. Working with industry
  • 2. Triangular panels for twisted facades
  • 3. Twisted panels with flat glass for curved facades
  • 4. Solar shading louvres
  • 5. Double-skin facades
  • 6. Precast concrete panels for facades of complex geometry
  • 7. Exoskeleton facades of complex geometry
  • 8. Diagrid structures
  • 9. Hybrid systems forming facades of complex geometry
  • 10. Opaque cladding interface with full-height glazing
  • 11. Complex curved glazed roofs
  • 12. Large-scale glazed facades
  • 13. Panelisation of complex building surface geometry
  • 14. Opaque rainscreen cladding
  • 15. Full-height glazing with GRP-clad structural frame
  • 16. GRC cladding interfaces
  • 17. Full-height entrance glazing
  • 18. GRP louvres on stick glazing system
  • 19. GRC cladding
  • 20. Windows in GRC cladding
  • 21. Windows and unitised glazing with GRC cladding
  • 22. Unitised glazing with GRC cladding
  • 23. Complex glazed roofs with supporting steel structure
  • 24. Glazed roofs with complex geometry
  • 25. Louvres and stick glazing
• REFERENCES
  • Glossary of terms
  • Authorship
  • Photo credits
  • Index