The Construction Databook provides the builder, project manager, construction superintendent, and design consultants and facility owners with a one-source reference guide to the most commonly encountered construction materials and components. Valuable information ranging from acoustics to mechanical systems, with scores of other topics in between, is included in this one-easy-to-access single volume.

Product specifications, installation, and maintenance data on hundreds of building products is included in this book along with other sections containing useful tables and formulas. An explanation of the on-going metrification movement includes charts for both soft and hard conversions.

The Construction Databook contains diagrams and schematics of numerous plumbing and HVAC installations to acquaint the reader with the most frequently installed systems and the equipment required to operate them.

Selected sections of the National Electric Code (NEC) are included in the Databook to supplement the reader s knowledge of acceptable electrical installation techniques. Much of the material in this volume has been gleaned from manufacturer s sources and trade association supplied information; some of the manufacturer supplied data may be proprietary in nature but generally is similar to products made by other vendors. This one-source Construction Databook should prove invaluable for office and field based construction and design professionals, since it contains, in one volume, answers to so many of the design and product application questions that arise during a construction project.

The Databook will provide the architect, builder, engineer, and owner with a handy, easy-to-access source of building material specifications and weights per...