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by Gil Taylor (Author)
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Ensure code compliance, accurate calculations, and quality, while saving time and money
Comprehensive, practical, and visual, this resource provides you with instant access to job-critical information.
- 600 tables, charts, checklists and calculations for quick look-up
- Provides job-critical data on every major building code, including the IBC (International Building Code) -- the world's most widely adopted building code
- Jargon-free explanations clarify complex codes
- Covers construction procedures and standards for commercial and industrial projects
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" ... Hard to imagine a more complete resource for architects, engineers, and code officials." -- Charles Linn, Deputy Editor, Architectural Record
THE ALL-IN-ONE QUALITY, CODE COMPLIANCE, AND BUILDING INSPECTION TOOLKIT
This resource simplifies quality assurance, code compliance, and inspection for commercial and industrial construction. Building professional Gil Taylor's Construction Codes and Inspection Handbook is the only reference that provides job-simplifying tools for nearly every function in quality and code compliance, from initial design document evaluation to project organization, from site preparation to turnover. The book includes each step in actual construction and covers all major building codes.
An unprecedented collection of job-simplifying tools, Construction Codes and Inspection Handbook provides nearly 600 valuable checklists, tables, charts, and calculations that will save building professionals time and money while helping to assure quality. With these tools, every task, from establishing inspection guidelines to providing clients with schedules and specifications, becomes easier.
A toolkit that simplifies and speeds jobs involving code and quality issues in commercial and industrial construction, the Construction Codes and Inspection Handbook is an invaluable resource for the building industry.
TASK-SPEEDING TOOLS
Checklists, Tables, Calculations, and More In All These Areas:
- Quality control and assurance
- Responsibility and authority
- Plans and specifications
- Shop and record drawings
- Inspectors' daily reports
- Preconstruction meetings
- Equipment proposals
- Claims
- Progress schedules
- Labor enforcement
- Storage of materials
- Contractor's payment
- Project turnover
- Inspection files
- Safety
TOOLS FOR COMPLYING WITH EVERY MAJOR CODE
- IBC (International Building Code) -- the world's most widely adopted building code
- NEC (National Electrical Code
- International Fire Code
- International Energy Conservation Code
- International Plumbing Code
- International Fuel Gas Code
- International Property Maintenance Code
- International Zoning Code
- More
PROCEDURES AND JOB-CRITICAL TOOLS FOR EVERY PHASE OF CONSTRUCTION
General Information * Design Quality Control Checklists * Sitework * Concrete * Masonry * Carpentry * Structural Steel * Doors and Windows * Finishes * Thermal and Moisture Protection * Pre-Engineered Buildings * Piping Systems * Mechanical * Electrical * Special Construction and Conveying Equipment * Solar Energy Systems * Hazards in Construction * OSHA
Author Biography
Gil L. Taylor has worked in the construction industry for more than 24 years, holding such positions as Project/Construction Manager for the Design/Build Division of Mason & Hanger Engineering, Kentucky State Resident Inspector, and Project Engineer for Takenaka International USA -- one of Engineering News Record's "Top 25" design/build firms. He belongs to several professional construction organizations, including the International Code Council (ICC). He is an ICC-certified building inspector as well as an ICC-certified inspector in electrical, plumbing, mechanical, and residential one- and two-family codes. He is the author of several books and manuals on construction and code issues, including the Up to Code series, published by McGraw-Hill in 2005. He lives in Lexington, Kentucky.
