Looking for a standards book.

[Anonymous]

A few years ago I worked for a CAD firm and they had this 3" thick
Architectural Bible, this book had everything kind of arch-aec-construction
standards you can think of in it. From the size of a heli-pad, beam calcs,
stair rise-to-runs, concrete reinforcement, to below ground parking
structure spec's. It was named something like "Architectural Handbook", and
now it is available on cd-rom. I had asked about this book a few months
back, but I don't remember what that book was called. It is a standard
industry handbook and I am wanting to get a copy and have it available for
my drafters so they can look thru it instead of asking me, and I also need
to find one for mechanical.

Thanks in advance

drew

[Anonymous]

Architectural Graphics Standard from Ramsey/Sleeper

watch for word wrap
http://www.wiley.com/legacy/products/subject/architecture/archdesign/ags/ind
ex.html

CJ follmer


"Andrew" wrote in message
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> A few years ago I worked for a CAD firm and they had this 3" thick
> Architectural Bible, this book had everything kind of
arch-aec-construction
> standards you can think of in it. From the size of a heli-pad, beam calcs,
> stair rise-to-runs, concrete reinforcement, to below ground parking
> structure spec's. It was named something like "Architectural Handbook",
and
> now it is available on cd-rom. I had asked about this book a few months
> back, but I don't remember what that book was called. It is a standard
> industry handbook and I am wanting to get a copy and have it available for
> my drafters so they can look thru it instead of asking me, and I also need
> to find one for mechanical.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> drew
>
>

[Anonymous]

Andrew, I suspect the one you are looking for is "Architectural Graphic Standards" since it seems to be
the one most are familiar with but, you might want to check out the following as well.

" Time-Saver Standards for Architectural Design Data" by Donald Watson (Contributor),
Michael J. Crosbie (Contributor), John Hancock Callender
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070685061/qid=1016608208/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-9450692-4957542
- " Time-Saver Standards for Building Types"
by Joseph De Chiara (Editor), Michael J. Crosbie (Editor), Mike Crosbie
- http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070163871/qid=1016608208/sr=1-4/ref=sr_1_4/104-9450692-4957542
- Do a search at Amazon.com for "Time-Saver" and you'll find some other interesting reference titles
in this series. Some of the titles are more for programming than for detailing but great books to have
in any architectural office.

Check out McGraw Hill for HVAC titles. I can't recommend any in particular but if the "Time-Saver"
titles are any indication, the HVAC books should be pretty good too.
- http://www.mhorder.com/cig-bookstore/hvacbookstore.html

[Anonymous]

Andrew, as an afterthought I would caution directing drafters to use a book to determine their details.
Very often details are generic in these types of publications, and should never be taken as gospel.
These types of books should really be called "guidelines" and not Standards IMO. They serve as
a good starting point - one still has to rely on knowledge and experience (if not your own then your
colleagues) to determine what is appropriate on a given project. Also, since these books certainly
would take a considerable time to publish, there may be out of date info like recent changes in codes,
or regulations.

[Anonymous]

I'm sure this is the one you're looking for :
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href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0471348163/caddeecom">Architectural
Graphic Standards

These are some great standard books too :

href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070615543/caddeecom/">Working
Drawing Manual

href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0931690013/qid=1015267968/caddeecom"
target=_blank>Mo...

href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0071344217/caddeecom"
target=_blank>Uniform Drawing F...

href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0070253048/caddeecom"
target=_blank>Cross-Check: Inte...

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James Dee

href="http://www.caddee.com">http://www.caddee.com

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size=2>> A few years ago I worked for a CAD firm and they had this 3"
thick
> Architectural Bible, this book had everything kind of
arch-aec-construction
> standards you can think of in it. From the size of
a heli-pad, beam calcs,
> stair rise-to-runs, concrete reinforcement, to
below ground parking
> structure spec's. It was named something like
"Architectural Handbook", and
> now it is available on cd-rom. I had asked
about this book a few months
> back, but I don't remember what that book
was called. It is a standard
> industry handbook and I am wanting to get a
copy and have it available for
> my drafters so they can look thru it
instead of asking me, and I also need
> to find one for
mechanical.
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> drew
>

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