Summary: Does your home-building training course need an all-purpose visual aid for jobsite safety orientation? This video illustrates the key issues residential builders and workers need to focus on in order to reduce accidents and injuries. Based on the NAHB-OSHA Jobsite Safety Handbook, the program conveys a wide range of safety information in easy-to-understand demonstrations. Topics include the use...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Does your home-building training course need an all-purpose visual aid for jobsite safety orientation? This video illustrates the key issues residential builders and workers need to focus on in order to reduce accidents and injuries. Based on the NAHB-OSHA Jobsite Safety Handbook, the program conveys a wide range of safety information in easy-to-understand demonstrations. Topics include the use...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: This video covers basic information on construction technology including a definition of construction, the project design, types of construction, the involvement of architects in the construction process, zoning laws, building codes, local covenants, site preparation, substructure and superstructure, building materials, installation of utilities, enclosing, and finishing.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: How much siding will you need for a medium-sized house? How much lumber will it take? In this program, students will learn a number of industry-standard techniques used to calculate the amounts of building materials for many common construction projects. Correlates to the Competencies and Objectives of the National Center for Construction Education & Research.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Ching, Francis D. K.
Summary: "For over four decades, Building Construction Illustrated has been the leading illustrated guide to the principles of building construction. With rich illustrations and in-depth content, this book offers students and practicing professionals the information needed to understand concepts in residential and commercial construction, architecture, and engineering. This edition has been revised...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The construction trades provide a variety of opportunities to put specialized skills to work. Some of those situations require estimating the amount of building materials needed to complete the job. This program presents rule-of-thumb techniques of estimating material needs for a deck system, exterior walls, interior walls, roofing, electrical systems, and plumbing systems. Basing the project...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: This engineering focused STEAM kit encourages young readers to become interested in construction and engineering while they are still learning basic life skills. This simple title with real photographs, paired with construction blocks can keep little ones happy and bus while channeling their inner engineers.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Penworthy 2019
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Summary: What can we spot on the construction site today? Shine a light behind the page and see ... From the crane driver high up in his cab and engineers digging deep underground, to bulldozers and all kinds of machines, each page-turn will take you behind the scenes of a busy construction site.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kane Miller, a division of EDC Publishing 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Hannigan, Paula
Summary: Construction workers tear down an old building and build a brand new toy store in its place, in a book with sliding tabs that change the illustration of each scene.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Accord Publishing, a division of Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Pallotta, Jerry.
Summary: Learn words used in construction and buildings.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this program, construction of the port-side vertical fin of a Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft continues. After describing in detail the properties of fiberglass cloth and epoxy, Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill demonstrate how to join foam blocks and apply fiberglass to a foam form. They then laminate the first fiberglass skin onto the PVC foam wing structure that was cut, joined, and shaped in...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Details the installation of utilities of all types: electrical communications, water, sewage, and natural gas. The process of installation for each type of utility is covered in depth, including the workers who perform the tasks, the specific tasks themselves, materials and components used, as well as an explanation of how the utilities operate, and the finishing stages of installation for...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In this program, construction of the port-side vertical fin of a Rutan Long-EZ homebuilt aircraft, begun in Composite Material Construction, Part 2, is completed as Burt Rutan and Mike Melvill finish the fiberglass skinning process. In addition, they show how to carry out three specialized layups-a shear web, a spar cap, and an interior corner joint-and perform a thorough cleanup of all tools...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Covers the erecting of structures, including very detailed information on substructures (slab, spread, and pile foundations) and superstructures (sills, headers, joists, studs, roofs) Also contains a brief discussion of some alternative superstructures including examples of tensile structures and pneumatic structures.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Ching, Frank
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690 CHIStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: Introduces ten unique American constructions including the Sears Tower, the Erie Canal, the Lincoln Tunnel, the Alaska pipeline, the Grand Coulee Dam, the Louisiana Superdome, the Seattle Space Needle, the Hubble Space Telescope, the Gateway Arch, and Disney's Epcot Center.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Blackbirch Press 1998