Illustrated building pocket book
Second edition
by Roxanna McDonald

Illustrated building pocket book: Since Illustrated building pocket book was published six years ago under its original title ‘An Illustrated Building Glossary’ changes in the priorities of approach to design and management have accelerated, and an understanding of the need for broadly educated professionals with an understanding of their interdisciplinary responsibilities is increasingly accepted.

The areas in which the book has been extended witness this change.

Certainly, concern for the protection of the environment has been on the agenda of the specialist for twenty years but the public have finally accepted the seriousness of the situation we have made for ourselves from the profligate use of our natural inheritance.

Illustrated building pocket book: It is now recognized that only around a quarter to a third of the energy and resource expended in buildings with a fifty-year life span is used in their construction.

Consequently, the whole life cycle of a building becomes a critical consideration from the inception of a project.

To achieve an environmentally sustainable building environment, every professional must have an understanding of the development process if they are to be able to contribute to it in a balanced way.

The computer has presented a way not only of drawing our ideas but also of coordinating the process of design, of anticipating a building’s performance and monitoring the results.

The computer is now a central tool in procurement as design is increasingly moved directly from the computer model to smart manufacture.