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Fundamentals of Construction

Regulatory

•  Zoning and Covenants 1
•  Zoning and Covenants 2
•  Intro to the IBC Height and Area
•  Intro to the IBC Egress
•  The American with Disabilities Act
  
• Basics of Safety

Excavation and Foundations

• 1 Geotechnical Exploration
• 2 Introduction to Excavation
• 3 Spread Footings
• 4 Pad Footings
• 5 Piles, Caissons and Rafts
• 6 Dewatering & Shoring
• 7 Underpinning

Wood

• General Aspects of Wood
• Sizes, Types and Grading
• Light Wood Framing 1
• Light Wood Framing 2
• Light Wood SIPS and Floor Trusses
• Roof Trusses, Ice Dams and Light Wood Framing Acoustic Control

Masonry

• General Aspects of Brick
• Joining and Draining Veneer
• Arches and Efflorescence
• General Aspects of CMU
• CMU & Brick Construction
  

Concrete

• Introduction to Concrete
  
• Types and Admixtures
• Reinforcing
• Formwork
• Placing
• Framing Systems for Sitecast Concrete
• Dulles Pour & Future Concrete
  
• Placing a Waffle Slab
• Schaulager: a case of retarding
• Tiltup

Steel

• Types and Codes
• Fire Protection Strategies
• Framing Strategies
• Connections and Seismic Strategies
  

Glass

• Glass, General Characteristics
  
• Glass framing with mullions
  

High Slope Roofing

• Slate and Clay Tile 

Low Slope Roofing

• General Introduction to Low Slope and Built-up Roofing
• EPDM and CSPE Single-Ply Membranes
  
• Upside-Down and Green Roofs 

Building Cultures: A history of Construction:

WARNING! These are drafts and could be dangerous to listen to while operating motor vehicles or heavy equipment.

• Why study construction history?
• Construction and society
• History, language and drawing
• Pyramids: learning from failure
• High points in the history of masonry
• Timber framing traditions today
• Light wood framing timeline
• Technology convergences leading to the light wood frame
• Historical hybrids on the way to the platform frame
• Postwar prefabrication for residential construction
• Glass from Egypt to San Francisco
• Cathedral St. Pierre Beauvais 1
• Cathedral St. Pierre Beauvais 2

Construction History Part Two: These lectures were delivered in the Spring Semester of 2007.

• The Crystal Palace part 1
• The Crystal Palace part 2
• Collapse and Span the birth of suspension bridges
• The Brooklyn Bridge, Caissons
• The Brooklyn Bridge, Towers and Cable Spinning
  
• The Isolated Pier Foundation and the birth of the Tall Building
• Chicago's Auditorium, biggest, tallest, best in acoustics
• The Palais des Machines, sibling to the Eiffel Tower
• The Eiffel Tower and Statue of Liberty
• The Tall Building Matures
• The Cantilever Bridge, Firth of Forth
• Pioneers in Concrete: Monier and Hennebique
• Artistry in Concrete, Maillart's Bridges
• Freyssinet and Post-Tensioned Concrete
• Empire State Building, tallest, fastest...emptiest?
• Candela, Nervi and the impossibly thin concrete shell
• Super Tall Tubes, Hancock and Sears Tower
• Smart, Tall, and a close call, Citicorp Center