The Art of Reading Buildings

The Art of Reading Buildings
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Publisher : Fire Engineering Books
Total Pages : 446
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ISBN-10 : 9781593703424
ISBN-13 : 1593703422
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Book Synopsis The Art of Reading Buildings by : John Mittendorf

Download or read book The Art of Reading Buildings written by John Mittendorf and published by Fire Engineering Books. This book was released on 2015-01-07 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying its positive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center on structure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciate the 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 building construction topics covered in this text. Features include: • Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction • Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors’ custom Rapid Street-Read Guides • 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


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