The The Portland Cement Association's Guide to Concrete Homebuilding Systems
is your one-source guide to concrete-based home construction. Residential contractors, architects, and developers will welcome this first total guide to the latest concrete-based homebuilding systems (CBHSs). With lumber costs still on the rise after doubling the early '90s, The Portland Cement Association Guide to Concrete Homes, by Peter VanderWerf and W. Keith Munsel, can deliver, durable, cost-efficient, esthetically pleasing alternative building materials and construction methods. It's all spelled out in an authoritative sourcebook that explains and compares the various types of CBHSs and lists special materials and tools for building them--provides case histories about concrete homes already built and in use--and contains data vital to building professionals who want to learn tomorrow's techniques today. Understanding the endusers of cement or those just before them can be of vital importance to those key decision makers in the cement industry.
