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CONTENTS<br/>Acknowledgments Introduction<br/>Building Materials<br/>Properties of Materials 1<br/>Masonry 2<br/>Cement and Concrete 4<br/>Metal 9<br/>Wood 13<br/>Plastic 16<br/>Fabric 18<br/>Glass 20<br/>Tables 22<br/>Building Structures 55<br/>Stress and Strain 56<br/>Joints 58<br/>Classification of Building Structures 63<br/>Simply Supported Beams 64<br/>Continuous Beams 69<br/>Ties and Columns 70<br/>Trusses and Reticulated Structures 72<br/>Arches and Cables 74<br/>Frames 76<br/>Floor and Roof Systems 78<br/>Building Systems<br/>High Rise Buildings 84<br/>Properties of Surfaces 67<br/>Membrane Structures<br/>Structural Form and Scale 96<br/>Load Paths 98<br/>Tables 101<br/>Building Physics 129<br/>Internal Environment 129<br/>Heat Transfer 130<br/>Intermittent Heating and Cooling 133<br/>Climate 135<br/>Heating and Cooling Loads 138<br/>Thermodynamics 140<br/>Air Conditioning 143<br/>Plant Operation 150<br/>Walls and Roofs 154<br/>Condensation 164<br/>Lighting 167<br/>Glare 170<br/>Colour 171<br/>Daylight 172<br/>Artificial Light 175<br/>Sound 177<br/>Sound Absorption 178<br/>Sound Insulation 180<br/>Room Acoustics 185<br/>Fire Safety 189<br/>Compartment Fire 189<br/>Temperature and Duration of Fire 191<br/>Spread of Fire and Smoke 192<br/>Passive Fire Protection 193<br/>Active Fire Protection 197<br/>Fire Precautions in Buildings 198 <br/>Properties of Materials in Fire 200<br/>5. Houses and Community Buildings 203<br/>Woolstone Houses,<br/>Milton Keynes, England 204 <br/>Keldy Castle Forest Cabins,<br/>Cropton, Yorkshire, England 208 <br/>IBM Exhibition Pavilion,<br/>Europe 212 <br/>South Poplar Health Centre,<br/>London, England 216 <br/>Sixth Form College, Alton,<br/>Hampshire, England 220 <br/>Schulitz House,<br/>Beverly Hills, California, USA 224 <br/>Marin Tennis Club,<br/>San Raphael, California, USA 228 <br/>Dune Houses,<br/>Atlantic Beach, Florida, USA 231 <br/>Beach Bathhouse,<br/>Chesterton, Indiana, USA 234<br/>6. Office Buildings 237 <br/>TRADA Offices,<br/>High Wycombe, England 238 <br/>1111 Nineteenth Street NW,<br/>Washington DC, USA 241 <br/>Chloride Technical Offices & Workshop,<br/>Swinton, Manchester, England 244 Havas Conseil Offices,<br/>Neuilly, France 247 <br/>Banque Beige Offices,<br/>London, England 250 <br/>Slough Estates House,<br/>Slough, England 254 <br/>Scottish Mutual House,<br/>Leeds, England 258 <br/>Mercantile Bank Tower,<br/>Kansas City, Missouri, USA 262 <br/>Baring Brothers Offices,<br/>London, England 266 <br/>Federal Reserve Bank,<br/>Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 270 <br/>Gateway House,<br/>Basingstoke, England 274 <br/>Centraal Beheer Offices,<br/>Apeldoorn, Holland 280 <br/>One Finsbury Avenue,<br/>London, England 286<br/>7 Public Buildings 291 <br/>St Anne's Church, Fawley Court,<br/>Henley-on-Thames, England 292 <br/>Kron Apotheke,<br/>Stuttgart, West Germany 295 <br/>South Holland Centre,<br/>Spalding. England 298 <br/>St Antony's College,<br/>Oxford, England 302 <br/>Guilford County Courthouse,<br/>Greensboro, North Carolina, USA308 <br/>Design Research Building,<br/>Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA 313<br/>Centre Georges Pompidou,<br/>Paris, France 316 <br/>Boston City Hall, 1<br/>Boston, Massachusetts, USA 324<br/>8. Residential Buildings 329<br/>Boulton House,<br/>Cambridge, England 330<br/>Hyatt Regency Hotel,<br/>Lexington, Kentucky, USA 336<br/>The Harewood Hotel,<br/>London, England 339<br/>Elizabeth House,<br/>Leicester, England 342<br/>William Stone Building,<br/>Cambridge, England 346<br/>Spelman Hails,<br/>Princeton, New Jersey, USA 350<br/>9. Highly Serviced Buildings 355<br/>Yale Center for British Art,<br/>New Haven, Connecticut, USA 356<br/>Biochemical Sciences Laboratory,<br/>Princeton, New Jersey, USA 361<br/>Wellesley College Science Center,<br/>Wellesley, Massachusetts, USA 364<br/>Sainsbury Centre,<br/>Norwich, England 367<br/>Woodhull Medical & Mental Health<br/>Center, Brooklyn, USA 372<br/>Nucleus Hospital, 376<br/>Maidstone, England<br/>10 Sports and Storage Buildings 3gi Sankey Warehouse,<br/>Epsom, England 382<br/>Penguin Books Warehouse,<br/>Harmondsworth, England 386 <br/>Anacostia Park Pavilion,<br/>Washington DC, USA 390 <br/>St Mary's Athletic Facility,<br/>Notre Dame, Indiana, USA 393, <br/>Sports Hall for School of Gymnastics &<br/>Sport, Magglingen, Switzerland 396 <br/>Sports Centre,<br/>Sokoto, Nigeria 400 <br/>Eisstadion,<br/>Braunlage, West Germany 402 <br/>Crosby Kemper Arena,<br/>Kansas City, Missouri, USA 406<br/>Space Structure Buildings 411<br/>Liverpool Garden Festival Theatre,<br/>Liverpool, England 412 <br/>La Lumiere Gymnasium,<br/>La Porte, Indiana, USA 417 <br/>Wayland School Field House,<br/>Wayland, Massachusetts, USA 420 <br/>Oasis Swimming Pool,<br/>Swindon, England 424 <br/>Faulerbad,<br/>Freiburg, West Germany 428 <br/>Florida Festival,<br/>Orlando, Florida USA 432 <br/>Baxter Laboratories Dining Hall,<br/>Dearfield, Illinois, USA 437 <br/>Bundesgartenschau Lattice Shell,<br/>Mannheim, West Germany 440 <br/>Fleetguard Factory,<br/>Quimper, France 446 <br/>Augusta Civic Center,<br/>Augusta, Georgia, USA 451 <br/>Leavey Activities Center,<br/>Santa Clara, California, USA 454 <br/>Oakland Alameda County Coliseum<br/>Arena, Oakland, California, USA 458 <br/>Calgary Saddledome,<br/>Calgary, Alberta, Canada 462<br/>High Rise Buildings 471 <br/>Knights of Columbus Building,<br/>New Haven, Connecticut, USA 472 <br/>Mercantile Tower,<br/>St Louis, Missouri, USA 475<br/> Sabah Foundation Headquarters,<br/>Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia 478<br/>Xerox Center,<br/>Chicago, Illinois, USA 481 <br/>First International Building,<br/>Dallas, Texas, USA 484 <br/>Texas Commerce Tower,<br/>Houston, Texas, USA 488 <br/>Metro Dade Center,<br/>Miami, Florida, USA 492 <br/>First Wisconsin Center,<br/>Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA 496 <br/>One Shell Plaza,<br/>Houston, Texas, USA 497 <br/>One Mellon Bank Center,<br/>Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA 502 <br/>The Sears Tower,<br/>Chicago, Illinois, USA 506 <br/>The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking<br/>Corporation HQ, Hong Kong 510<br/>Appendix 521<br/>Metric and Imperial Units<br/>References 525<br/>Bibliography 529<br/><br/><br/><br/> |
