Roof Construction Manual: Pitched Roofs (Birkhäuser / Edition Detail 2003) is a vital reference work on the construction and architectural use of pitched roofs. The book is a part of Edition Detail’s manuals that provide important reference works in the specialist literature of this field.
The Roof Construction Manual offers extensive and fundamental information on all common types of roofing, and provides practical details for their construction. The book is divided according to the type of roof elements and jointing techniques. Thirteen kinds of roofs and the relevant materials, including thatch, wood, slate, clay, concrete, fibre-cement, bitumen, glass, metal, membranes and synthetic materials are documented. Also described in detail are essential topics such as ventilation, vapour barriers and airtightness, insulation and drainage; refurbishment and energy conservation are also examined in detail. As with construction manuals in this series, built examples illustrate the theoretical details. Some 38 examples, which include 11 classic buildings and 27 structures from the last five years, show the construction of roofs, paying particular attention to important features such as ridge, hip, eaves, valley, verge and penetrations.
– Roof Construction Manual: Pitched Roofs (Birkhäuser / Edition Detail, 2003), excerpt from the book description
The text is in English. The book is richly lavishly illustrated with photographs and architectural detail drawings.
Our copy in stock is in good condition. The pages are clean, no markings. The binding is fine. The dust jacket shows only some small traces of edge wear, shelf wear and use.
