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Building SIMPLE:
Building an Information Model

This great new book uses a graphic narrative style to take you through every step in the construction of a mid-rise building.

Building SIMPLE should be of particular interest to design and construction professionals that are not directly involved in the day to day activities found on a large scale construction jobsite. This includes real estate developers, investors, property managers, bankers, accountants, attorneys, and building owners.

The book uses a series of 3D models to visually explain the means and methods used in the construction of both concrete and steel framed buildings.

This includes the building's layout, a zero-lot line excavation, reinforced concrete foundations, raised slab, rigid concrete frame, and pre-cast hollow core decking. While this is going on masons build concrete block walls and ironworkers erect a steel moment frame with composite steel decking, bar-joist, and light-weight steel framing. The book closes with the installation of the roof and curtain walls that leave the building weather tight and ready for the installation of mechanical and electrical systems.

Each chapter includes a glossary of the buzzwords used during the construction in that chapter with an estimate of the time and dollar value of each phase of the construction.

The companion CD includes the interactive building information models used to illustrate the book. Users can walk through the jobsite, stand on steel beams, and zoom in on structural details as they click through the phases of the building's construction.

Readers will also find tutorials on the advanced 3D construction modeling techniques used in the virtual construction and be able to deconstruct and evaluate the complete file of this large and complex SketchUp model.

This book is a must read for anyone interested in the means and methods of real world construction and how building information models can be used to clearly communicate construction as a process.

ISBN: 0-9762741-2-4
$29.95
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The following booksellers carry our books:

Builder's Book Inc.
8001 Canoga Avenue
Canoga Park, CA 91304
http://www.buildersbook.com/
800 273-7375 and 818 887 7828 (outside US)

Builders BOOKSOURCE
1817 Fourth Street
Berkeley, CA 94710
http://www.buildersbooksource.com
800 843-2028 and 510 845-6874

CAD Garage/Integrated CADD Services Inc.
19 Bishop Allen Drive
Cambridge, MA 02139
http://intcad.stores.yahoo.net/info.html
617 576-8778 (selling all 3 of our books as a bundle for $79)

Opamp Technical Books
1033 N. Sycamore
Los Angeles, CA 90038
http://opamp.com/
800 468-4322

Powell's Technical Books
33 NW Park Avenue
Portland, Oregon 97209
http://www.powells.com/
800 878 7328

Prairie Avenue Bookshop
418 S. Wabash
Chicago, IL 60605
http://www.pabook.com/search.asp
800 474-2724

Goerings Book Store
3433 West University Avenue
Gainesville, FL 32607
352 378-0363

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