Building Design and Construction Handbook, 6th Edition

Both Frederick S. Merritt and Jonathan T. Ricketts have published an exclusive construction book alias Building Design and Construction Handbook, 6th Edition.

This construction reference book focuses on each single vital step in building design and construction covering major modifications in design and construction practices, surveys materials, structures, soil mechanics and foundations, building types, hardware, insulation, acoustics, plumbing, and more. The book is considered as a useful resource for architects, engineers, contractors, and others to perform quickly, efficiently and smartly. The book contains some crucial chapters like new design specifications; the recent upgradation in seismic and wind design criteria; new building systems and material; updated building codes throughout; NFPA requirements; and new wood material and codes.

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“Build Your Own House” – An outstanding construction e-book by Carl Heldmann

Carl Heldmann published an exceptional ebook alias ‘Build your own house”. This construction e-book will guide you for constructing a new house as well as reforming your home, developing a home addition and cost estimation for constructing a house or developing a home addition.

This construction book contains 85 Pages and numerous color photos. The book will improve your skills to become an efficient general contractor. The book will cover the following topics :-

• From where to start.

• How to choose land to develop any building.

• How to adopt House Plans.

• How to study House Plans.

• How to set up a Home Building Budget.

• How to figure out cost estimation for developing your home.

• How to discover good subcontractors.

• How to deal with and reimburse your subcontractors.

• How to get a reduction on home building materials.

• How to develop a home through step by step process.

• How to procure home construction loans.

This informative Home Building eBook will cost $9.95, but it can be downloaded at free of cost for a limited time period.

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National Construction Estimator 2014

National Construction Estimator - 62nd Annual Edition, authored by Richard Pray, divulges the existing building costs for residential, commercial, and industrial construction.

The book - Published by: Craftsman Book Company

ISBN: 978-1-57218-292-9

672 Pages, 8-1/2 x 11, Shipping Weight: 3.36 lbs.

This is in fact predictable cost for every widespread building material, the labor cost to put in the material and a total "installed" cost. For those jobs where you cannot rely on your experience to estimate, depend on the prices in this national standard of construction costs to obtain you securely in the fairly accurate.

This provides man-hours, recommended crew, and the labor cost for installation of every job and practically every type of material in construction. It provides lucid imagery on what is included in the job being estimated so you know precisely what the job and the prices for that job involve. Every cost is carefully described. It even provides not obligatory crew sizes, and equipment rates.

It includes a free download of an electronic version of the book with National Estimator, a stand-alone Windows estimating programme. You will also receive a link for a download of the 2014 electronic version at no extra charge.

Included with National Estimator download:

• Job Cost Wizard – turns estimates into invoices and exports both in QuickBooks.

• Free Online Technical Support – for the National Estimator Software.

• Free Quarterly National Estimator Updates – Updates to the 2014 costbooks and zip code modification factors are updated quarterly.

• Quarterly price updates on the Web are free and automatic all during 2014. You'll be prompted when it's time to collect the next update. A connection to the Web is required.

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