Art of Reading Buildings eBook
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John Mittendorf, David W. Dodson
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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.
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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
SpecificationsFire Engineering, 2015
Download/eBook
444 pages, B&W photos and illustrations
ISBN: E9781593703424
ReturnsOnce your access code has been activated, the eBook cannot be returned for a refund.