Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings: Restoration Preservation and Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects and Engineers

...this book offers a wealth of information... (Journal of Architectural Conservation, November 2001)

Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings: Restoration Preservation & Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects & Engineers offers the most complete, detailed and authentic data available on the materials, calculation methods and design techniques used by architects and engineers of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It provides today's building professionals with information needed to analyze, modify and certify historic buildings for modern use. Among the many important features of Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings not available in any other single volume are:

• More than 350 line drawings and diagrams taken directly from original sources such as the Carnegie Steele Company's Pocket Companion (1893) and Frank Kidder's The Architect's and Builder's Pocketbook (1902)
• Hard-to-find data on period structural components, such as cast-iron columns and beams, wrought-iron columns and beams and fireproof terra cotta floor arches
• Methods for determining what kind of loads structural components were originally designed to bear and methods to determine if they are still capable of performing as intended
• Extensive coverage of historical foundation systems and empirical design methods for load-bearing masonry buildings

For any building professional involved in the rapidly growing field of restoring, preserving and adapting historic buildings, Structural Analysis of Historic Buildings: Restoration Preservation & Adaptive Reuse Applications for Architects & Engineers is an invaluable structural handbook.

About the Author

J Stanley Rabun, PhD, PE, NCARB, is a registered engineer and registered architect and professor of Architecture at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has taught courses in historic preservation technology and architectural structures for more than 20 years. A respected consulting architect and structural engineer, Professor Rabun was recently presented with a prestigious research award from Architecture magazine.

Table of Contents

• Assessment Methodology: Material Chronology, Early Building Laws and Loads.
• Foundation Systems of American Historic Buildings.
• Historic American Building Systems: Walls and Columns.
• Historic American Floor Systems
• Historic American Roof Systems: Lateral Bracing of Buildings.
• The Historic Material Assessment.
• Bibliography.
• Index.