BEFORE THE ARCHITECT – E-PUBLICATIONS
Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards (a/k/a HCDS)
Your HOME DESIGN GUIDE-HOME BUILDING GUIDE
The ORIGINAL (in current edition) in .PDF, AND .DOC
SEE FOR YOURSELF in these 3Q10 Edition page copies . . .
Cover Page
Table of Contents
Table of Figures
Index
Ch. VI, Foundation Design Standards
first 10 of about 90 pages
Ch. VIII, Electrical Design Standards
first 10 of about 36 pages
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You couldn't get the Word. doc version on Amazon. Fuggedaboudit.
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Excerpts from interview in re the e-book, Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards by Before The Architect.
“’Quality by planning,’ is how an engineer and quality home builder mentor describes it,” said the Before The Architect spokesman. “Our ‘Home Design Standards-Home Building Standards’ aims at owners who want a new home or major home remodel designed and built better and aims at home designers and home builders who want first-class home plans and better-built homes.”
This e-book is written in home plan style – clear and comprehensive – with hundreds and hundreds of specifications and stipulations. It addresses common home design and home building issues including home plan layout, jobsite conduct, and quality stick-built standards for materials, foundation, framing, wiring, plumbing, venting, HVAC, and finishing. New format, easier to follow outline, table of contents, table of figures, index, new user-friendlier format.
What makes this e-book different? “Well, for starters, please show me what you think is comparable. Truly, I think there’s nothing else like it available,” said the spokesman for Before The Architect. “It bridges professional disciplines of home design and home building for safety, durability, and convenience. It talks in applied, no-nonsense language to home buyers, home designers, and home builders. To boot, it is packed with my pithy comments and happy-to-help asides supporting many of the entries – background based on nearly 4 decades of experience at the granite knees of both home design and home building. Taking the both of us, that’s going-on a century.”
He went on, “We use it every day in our work. I literally copy sections of the e-book right onto the home drawing board, and adapt those selections to focus specifically on our work at hand. Our specs can run to 6 big sheets and more of definitive text on materials and methods; our home consulting and home designing reflect our printed standards. We can take a whole lot of wiggle-room out of builders’ work. Otherwise, they’re out there home designing when they should be building while buyers haven’t a clue about what, how, and why things are built the way they are. It’s tough enough to build well, without home designing on the fly. It’s tough enough to earn the money to buy and own the new-build or bigtime remodel, so why practically give it away in blind hopes you get the home designing and home building that you think you ought to.”
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