Refurbishment Manual: Maintenance, Conversions, Extensions
From Birkhäuser’s DETAIL series, which breaks down highly specific building information into comprehensive reference volumes. This edition brings together detailed designs and illustrations, photographs, and a wide range of built examples, offering an in-depth resource on the planning and execution of refurbishment projects.
Acting as a practical planning aid, the manual provides detailed background information and scientifically grounded guidance, organized into chapters. It covers topics such as refurbishment strategies, the categorization of typical building flaws, and relevant planning factors, including a breakdown of historical periods as a reference for classifying and assessing construction tasks. The latter half of the volume is dedicated to detailed case studies and plans of completed projects, together serving as a thorough technical reference reflecting early 21st-century approaches to refurbishment and building renewal. Item #1996.
Condition: Very Good, in a Very Good dust jacket, with small corner bumps to three of four outside corners; some small bumps, less than .25" to bottom edge of front cover; light edgewear; previous owner's "registered architect" stamp on the front flyleaf; DJ has moderate edgewear; light scratching across front cover.
Price: $200.00