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Wood frame envelopes : best practice guide: building technologyNH15-296/1999E

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This best practice guide offers professional builders, such as architects and engineers, affordable designs and recommendations and detailed information on using this building technology in Canada. The guide looks at wood in construction, heat transfer, moisture transfer and control, and dimensional change. The guide presents 32 details that show wall assemblies, window openings, cantilevered floors, balconies, wheelchair ramps, and party and fire walls. It then discusses specifications, quality control, and maintenance and repair. A set of CAD drawings on a CD-ROM, in DWG and DXF format, also accompany the guide

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Department/Agency
  • Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation.
TitleWood frame envelopes : best practice guide: building technology
Publication typeMonograph
Language[English]
Other language editions[French]
FormatPhysical text
Other formatsDigital text-[English]
Publishing information
  • Ottawa - Ontario : Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation 2001.
BindingBinder
Description120p. in various pagings. : illus., references ; 30 cm. + 1 CD-ROM under the same title.
ISBN0-660-17716-1
Catalogue number
  • NH15-296/1999E
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