304 Pages
by
Routledge
This work provides a clear and simple guide to the subject, based on meticulous and beautiful drawings. Organized in three sections, it includes chapters on construction details; methods of working particular structural shapes; both basic and advanced geometry and setting-out. It also includes forms and tables omitted from later editions to be used as templates for costing and estimating work.... Read more
New Introduction by Christopher Weeks; Foreword by F.E. Drury; Preface; Introduction; Abbreviations. Section I: Constructional and practical masonry; Description of tools; Description of machines in use; Details and construction; Hoisting and setting of stonework; Principles of stone cutting; Building stones. Section II: The geometry of masonry; Plane geometry and setting out; Solid and descriptive geometry and setting out. Section III: Costing and Estimating; Masonry costing and estimating; Glossary; Index.
Biography
Edmund Warland
