The Way We Build Now
Subtitle: Form, Scale and Technique
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: December 31, 1990
Language: eng
Number of pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780419157809
First sentence: Those properties of matter which are of most interest in materials used for the structure and cladding of buildings are their cost, their mechanical properties, including their weight, their thermal, acoustic and optical properties, their dimensional stability and durability and their resistance to fire.