Exercises in building construction
Sixth edition
Forty-six homework and laboratory assignments to accompany
Fundamentals of building construction materials and methods
Sixth edition
By Edward allen and, Joseph iano

The exercises in Exercises in building construction are designed to help you learn about materials and methods of construction by involving you in the kinds of work that building design professionals–architects, engineers, and drafters–do every day in the course of designing buildings and getting them built.

You will find that these exercises make it easier to learn the essential information in the accompanying textbook, Fundamentals of Building Construction.

You will also discover that they will give you a good start toward becoming proficient in many different phases of building activity.

Keep Fundamentals of Building Construction close by as you do the work in this Exercises in building construction and get into the habit of consulting it frequently.

Nearly everything you need to know to solve the problems is in this Exercises in building construction, and in most cases, you will be given explicit directions about where to look for it.

The glossary at the end of the text will be useful if you do not understand a technical term, and the index can help you locate information that is not directly referenced in the exercises.

These exercises are intended to be hand drafted. Despite the dominance of digital technology in production drawing, the skills you will develop in these exercises–to conceptualize and develop building assemblies with confidence and ease–remain fundamental.

You may draw freehand or with the aid of a drafting board and instruments, as you prefer or as directed by your instructor. In either case, only minimal use of an architect’s scale is required.