Construction

**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.

**Special Order** NFPA 780 provides lightning protection system installation requirements to safeguard people and property from fire risk and related hazards associated with lightning exposure.

**Special Order** Fires remain among the most prevalent dangers in our society, claiming nearly 4,000 lives each year in the United States alone. Often, the difference between life and death is something as simple as the use of smoke alarms and practicing basic fire prevention habits.

**Special Order** Fires remain among the most prevalent dangers in our society, claiming nearly 4,000 lives each year in the United States alone. Often, the difference between life and death is something as simple as the use of smoke alarms and practicing basic fire prevention habits.

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**Special Order** This important reference outlines the data objectively, enabling the reader to independently make informed judgments about competing bids or proposals, compile a brief, and design or maintain a security system.

**Special Order** Updated in 1997 by an expert in the neon field, Neon Techniques, now in its fourth edition, covers everything you need to know to design, fabricate, troubleshoot and repair neon signs and graphics, from the basic equipment to the techniques of bending glass, to filling the tubes with various gasses, to the electric aspect, and finally to installation and maintenance.

**Special Order** Manual H gives you a one-stop reference on residential and small commercial heat pump systems - basic principles, equipment, installation, operation, applications and system design - with a wealth of step-by-step examples and design calculations

**Special Order** Provides comprehensive minimum regulations for plumbing facilities in terms of both performance and prescriptive objectives, and provides for the acceptance of new and innovative products, materials and systems.

**Special Order** The purpose of these rules is the practical safeguarding of persons during the installation, operation, or maintenance of electric supply and communication lines and associated equipment. These rules contain the basic provisions that are considered necessary for the safety of employees and the public under the specified conditions.

**Special Order** Solar Water Heating Systems: Fundamentals and Installation was developed in conjunction with the United Association of Journeymen and Apprentices of the Plumbing and Pipe Fitting Industry. The textbook covers residential solar water heating systems for domestic hot water and swimming pool applications.

**Special Order** Mike Holt's Illustrated Guide to Basic Electrical Theory: Do you know where electricity comes from? To be able to say yes to that question, you must understand a bit about the physics of matter. What value does a brief study of the nature of matter have for the student of electrical theory? The understanding that comes from that study lays the foundation for understanding electrical theory. Only when you know the theory can you truly have confidence in the practical aspects of your electrical work