Construction

MJ8AE, an abridged version of the Eighth Edition of Manual J, provides complete instructions for estimating heat loss and heat gain for residential structures. MJ8AE is sufficient for learning the Manual J procedures and for undertaking hand calculations on a varied number of home applications.

**Special Order** A fully integrated custom code based on the 2015 International Plumbing Code.

**Special Order ** Fully integrated Code based on the 2009 International Mechanical Code® (IMC®). Established minimum regulations for mechanical systems using prescriptive and performance related provisions.

**Special Order** Photovoltaic Systems is a comprehensive guide to the design and installation of several types of residential and commercial PV systems. Numerous illustrations explain the concepts behind how PV arrays and other components operate, and photographs of actual installations show how components are integrated together to form complete systems.

*Special Order** Developed originally for a workshop of the same name, this manual is now published in book form and available to the public as a very practical and informative instructional manual.

**Special Order** This is a fully integrated code based on the 2006 International Fuel Gas Code®.

**Special Order** The California Building Code (CBC) contains general building design and construction requirements relating to fire and life safety, structural safety, and access compliance. CBC provisions provide minimum standards to safeguard life or limb, health, property, and public welfare by regulating and controlling the design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location, and maintenance of all buildings and structures and certain equipment.

NFPA 72 provides the latest safety provisions to meet society's changing fire detection, signaling, and emergency communications demands. In addition to the core focus on fire alarm systems, the Code includes requirements for mass notification systems used for weather emergencies; terrorist events; biological, chemical, and nuclear emergencies; and other threats.

NFPA 72 provides the latest safety provisions to meet society's changing fire detection, signaling, and emergency communications demands. In addition to the core focus on fire alarm systems, the Code includes requirements for mass notification systems used for weather emergencies; terrorist events; biological, chemical, and nuclear emergencies; and other threats.

**Special Order** This hard-copy version contains the code-recognized 2018 National Design Specification (NDS) for Wood Construction and Commentary with 2018 Supplement: Design Values for Wood Construction along with the 2015 Special Design Provisions for Wind and Seismic (SDPWS) with Commentary.

**Special Order** Managing the Construction Process: Estimating, Scheduling, and Project Control, Fourth Edition, covers all areas of the Construction Management industry―with a balanced focus on both theory and practicality. Helping students gain a working knowledge of the whole Building Industry, this text provides the technical skills required to manage a construction project from conception through occupancy.

**Special Order** It includes a user-friendly overview of key design and building principles for a hot, humid climate and gulf region conditions, a planning checklist of recommended features and their benefits, a reference guide explaining each item on the checklist and list of many other sustainable home information resources.

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**Special Order** The most comprehensive text on the subject, Olin's Construction covers not only the materials and methods of building construction, but also building systems and equipment, utilities, properties of materials, and current design and contracting requirements.

**Special Order** The LP-Gas Code is your source for the latest requirements for LP-gas installations, including container construction, piping design, and separation of containers from homes, stores, schools, and other buildings. The code also provides comprehensive coverage of handling LP-Gas during transfer and storage, including operator qualifications, maximum filling quantity in containers, and pre-transfer inspections to ensure containers are fit for continued service.

**Special Order** Long considered the benchmark for automatic fire sprinkler systems, NFPA 13 presents consensus-based requirements for sprinkler system design approaches, installation, and component options.

**Special Order** The UPC is designed to provide consumers with safe and sanitary plumbing systems while, at the same time, allowing latitude for innovation and new technologies.

**Special Order** The UMC provides complete requirements for the installation and maintenance of heating, ventilating, cooling and refrigeration systems, while at the same time allowing latitude for innovations and new technologies.

**Special Order** From carbon monoxide poisoning to the risks of fire and explosion, there are many hazards inherent with the utilization of gaseous fuels. NFPA 54 offers comprehensive provisions for the safe design, installation, operation, maintenance, purging, and inspection of gas piping, equipment, accessories, and appliances supplied with fuel gas.

**Book is out of print** The 2007 NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems broadens coverage to support innovative technology and Chapter 11: Design Approaches clarifies design options. In a major change, eight new chapters in this edition address storage of specific commodities.