Public institutions : their engineering, sanitary, and other appliances, with the construction of special departments / by Frederick Colyer.

  • Colyer, Frederick, 1833-1914.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Public institutions : their engineering, sanitary, and other appliances, with the construction of special departments / by Frederick Colyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Quantity S^irveying. By J. Leaning. With 42 illus- trations. Second edition, revised, crown 8vo, cloth, gt. Contents: A complete Explanation of the London Practice. General Instructions. Order of Taking Off. Modes of Measurement of the various Trades. Use and Waste. Ventilation and Warming, Credits, with various Examples of Treatment. Abbreviations. Squaring the Dimensions. Abstracting, with Examples in illustration of each Trade. Billing. Examples of Preambles to each Trade. Form for a Bill of Quantities. Do, Bill of Credits. Do. BUI for Alternative Estimate. Restorations and Repairs, and Form of Bill. Variations before Acceptance of Tender. Errors in a Builder’s Estimate. Schedule of Prices. Form of Schedule of Prices. Analysis of Schedule of Prices. Adjustment of Accounts. Form of a Bill of Variations. Remarks on Specifications. Prices and Valuation of Work, with Examples and Remarks upon each Trade. The Law as it affects Quantity Sur%'eyors, with Law Reports. Taking Off after the Old Method. Northern Practice. The General Statement of the Methods recommended by the Manchester Society of Architects for taking Quantities. Examples of Collections. Examples of “ Taking Off” in each Trade. Remarks on the Past and Present Methods of Estimating. Spans’ Architects’ and Biiilders’ Price Book, with useful Memoranda. Edited by W. Young, Architect. Crown 8vo, cloth, red edges, 3^. Ctd. Published annually. Sixteenth edition. Now ready. Long-Span Railway Bridges, comprising Investiga-. tions of the Comparative Theoretical -and Practical Advantages of the various adopted or proposed Type Systems of Construction, with numerous Formulm and Tables giving the weight of Iron or Steel required in Bridges from 300 feet to the limiting Spans ; to which are added similar Investigations and Tables relating to Short-span Railway Bridges. Second and revised edition. By B. Baker, Assoc. Inst. C.E. Plata, crown 8vo, cloth, 5'f- Elementary Theory and Calculation of Iron Bridges and Roofs. By August Ritter, Ph.D., Professor at the Polytechnic School at Aix-la-Chapelle. Translated from the third German edition, by H. R. Sankey, Capt. R.E. With 500 illuslrations, 8vo, cloth, 15^. The Elementary Principles of Carpentry. By Thomas Tredgold. Revised from the original edition, and partly re-written, by John Thomas Hurst. Contained in 517 pages of letter- press, and illustrated with 48 plates and 150 wood en^avings. Sixth edition, reprinted from the third, crown Svo, cloth, 12s. 6d. Section I. On the Equality and Distribution of Forces — Section II. Resistance of Timber—Section III. Construction of Floors — Section IV. Construction of RoofsSec- tion V Construction of Domes and Cupol.as — Section VI. Con.struction of rartilions— Section VII. Scaffolds, Staging, and G.intries—Section VIII. Construction of Centtr^ for Bridges—Section IX. Coffer-dams, Shoring, and Strutting—Section X. Wooden Bridges and Viaducts—Section XI. Joints, Straps, and other Fastenings—Section XII. Timber.
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