Refurbishment Manual: Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions (Birkhäuser, 2009) is a comprehensive and pragmatic companion to the challenges of various renovation projects.
Planning assignments involving the building stock are currently among the commonest projects, and almost every structure presents different demands, different problems. The Refurbishment Manual closes the gap between books on construction fundamentals and very one-sided, specialist publications. it constitutes a practical planning aid for refurbishment tasks by providing relevant background information, specific advice on how to plan such works, methods for analysing the building stock and cost parameters plus graphic solutions to constructional problems. Unique to this book is the specially developed breakdown into historical periods, which can be used to recognise, classify and assess certain constructional tasks quickly, thus providing the planner with an efficient overview of the planning task.
– Georg Giebeler, Rainer Fisch, Harald Krause, Florian Musso, Karl-Heinz Petzinka, and Alexander Rudolphi, Refurbishment Manual: Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions (Birkhäuser, 2009), excerpt from the book description.
The text is in English. The book is lavishly illustrated with photographs and detailed architectural drawings.
Our copy in stock is in very good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The glueing of the binding is firm. The covers show only some minuscule traces of shelf wear.
