Popular Hand Book for Cement and Concrete Users: A Comprehensive and Popular Treatise on the Principles Involved and Methods Employed in the Design and Construction of Modern Concrete Work (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Popular Hand Book for Cement and Concrete Users: A Comprehensive and Popular Treatise on the Principles Involved and Methods Employed in the Design and Construction of Modern Concrete Work

On the other hand, with few exceptions, the popular books on the subject contain no systematic treatment Of the subject of design, and fail to give any conception of the costs bf different types of construction.

To compile material, all of which shall possess some definite value; to explain the principles of design and methods of construe tion in concise and, so far as possible, non-technical language; to describe the variation of costs for different kinds of concrete work; to give the reader a handbook that will prove interesting as well as useful; to bring home the great economic and artistic qualities of concrete as a building material; and finally to help in producing a better, higher grade of concrete work: these are the criteria which have helped to Shape the character of this book, criteria difficult to satisfy and impossible of complete attainment. Just how far these purposes have been carried out can only be left to the. Judg ment of the readers to decide.

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