This well-illustrated text teaches the basic skills needed to read, study, and understand construction drawings. It features a detailed analysis of a set of residential plans. Pictorial drawings accompany orthographic plan drawings to help students visualize the meaning of the plan drawing. Construction technology students taking beginning and intermediate plan reading courses will also learn about important related areas that affect plan development, such as building codes, materials, and mathematics applications. There is ample construction data throughout the text's eight sections, one of which consists of assignments for three sets of full-size construction plans provided. Review questions are also featured at the end of each section. ALSO AVAILABLE INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS CALL CUSTOMER SUPPORT TO ORDER Instructor's Guide, ISBN: 0-7668-0840-8

Product Benefits:

• integrated analysis of plan drawings greatly increases comprehension
• examples of codes and legal documents provide basic understanding of how laws affect design
• highlighted illustrations focus attention on important elements of the drawing
• pictorial drawings of orthographic plan drawings provide visual representations
• mathematics related to English and metric measurement are explained step-by-step for users who are developing skills