Construction for Interior Designers is a highly readable, comprehensive and informative text proving all the technical information required. The second edition has been fully updated to reflect the 1991 amendments if the 1985 Building Regulations and includes a new chapter on environmental issues affecting construction. Important concepts are explained from first principles with three-dimensional diagrams and informative tables. No previous knowledge of the subject is assumed.

Aimed at assisting practising and training interior designers, this text considers the basic principles involved in construction, how these principles operate in relation to the external enclosure of a building and considers the structural elements and materials used in interior construction.