Construction Failure (Wiley Series of Practical Construction Guides)
Language: English
Published by Wiley-Interscience, 1968
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- Title
- Construction Failure (Wiley Series of Practical Construction Guides)
- Author
- Feld, Jacob
- Publisher
- Wiley-Interscience
- Publication year
- 1968
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0471257001
- ISBN 13
- 9780471257004
- Item weight
- 32 ounces
- Dimensions
- 0x0x0
In addition to detailed coverage of current design tools, techniques, materials, and construction methods, Construction Failure, Second Edition features an entire chapter on the burgeoning area of construction litigation, including a thorough examination of alternative dispute resolution techniques. Like the original, this edition discusses technical and procedural failures of many different types of structures, but is now supplemented with new case studies to illustrate the dynamics of failure in action today.
Jacob Feld knew thirty years ago that in order to learn from our mistakes, we must first acknowledge and understand them. With this revised volume, Kenneth Carper has ensured that Feld′s now–posthumous message will continue to be heard for years to come.
Jacob Feld′s comprehensive work on failure analysis has now been skillfully amended to address current design and construction tools, materials, and practices. Building on the first edition′s peerless examination of the causes and lessons of failure, Construction Failure, Second Edition provides you with expanded coverage of:
∗ Technical, procedural, structural, and nonstructural failures
∗ Natural hazards, earthworks, soil and foundation problems, and more
∗ Reinforced, precast and prestressed concrete, steel, timber, masonry, and other materials
∗ Responsibility and litigation concerns, dispute avoidance, and alternative dispute resolution techniques
∗ Construction safety issues
∗ Many different types of structures, including dams and bridges
Construction Failure has as much to teach us today as it did thirty years ago. This revised volume is an essential resource for design engineers, architects, construction managers, lawyers, and students in all of these fields.
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From the Author
Hello, I am Ken Carper, author of this second edition. Here are some excerpts from some published reviews I would like to share with you:
Jack Janney in the ASCE Journal of Structural Engineering: "Kenneth Carper has done an excellent job of enhancing the original work of Jacob Feld with considerable expansion and updating to include recent experiences... Carper's book should be required reading for all structural engineering students and should be strongly recommended reading for practicing structural engineers."
William Nash in the ASCE Practice Periodical on Structural Design and Construction: "The construction failures are documented with detailed accounts so as to provide the reader with the opportunity to learn from the collective mistakes of others -- designers, architects, contractors and subcontractors -- on vastly different types of projects utilizing a variety of materials... 'Construction Failure' should be required reading for all personnel who enter the world of construction... Carper's diligent work to update a text that brings together the collective experience of the engineering fraternity's construction failures is an easy read and much easier than gathering the 'gray hair' that goes with 'living' these projects."
James F. Nagle in The Construction Lawyer: "The book is well-written, scholarly, and well-researched. Each of the 13 chapters ends with extensive references that are practice-oriented for further review and investigation... Builders and design professionals should read it to avoid making the same mistakes. If that fear is not enough, they should know that many lawyers will read it for ammunition in the resulting lawsuits."
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