The Art of Reading Buildings
by John Mittendorf, Dave Dodson
ISBN-10: 1593703422
ISBN-13: 9781593703424
$107.00
Book Specs
Binding
Trade Cloth
Publisher
Fire Engineering Books & Videos
Published on
Jan 7, 2015
Edition
st Edition
Dimensions
8.70x0.90x11.10 Inches
Weight
3.24 Pounds
About the Book
The Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying itspositive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center onstructure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciatethe practical "street-wise" lessons captured in the book. Chief officers, training officers, engineers,firefighters, and fire science degree candidates will benefit from the wide range of buildingconstruction topics covered in this text.
* Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors' custom rapid-read street guides
* Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction
* Develop a quick construction size-up for immediate application to fireground operations
* Recognize firefighter traps in newer and alternative-construction methods
* This text covers objectives for the National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course