From Construction Databook

Sidney M.Levy

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Levy, Sidney M.
Construction databook/Sidney M.Levy.
p. cm.
ISBN 0-07-038365-0
1. Building Handbooks, manuals, etc. I. Title.
TH151 .L48 1998
690 dc21 98 40478
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