Measurement and Recording of Historic Buildings - Hardcover

Swallow, Peter; Watt, David; Ashton, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 187339408X ISBN 13: 9781873394083

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

This volume provides a practical guide to measured building surveys with a special emphasis on recording the fabric of historic buildings. It should be of particular interest to architects, builders, conservation officers, industrial archaeologists, planners, surveyors and others working in the field of conservation who need accurate surveys of buildings and small sites. The text assumes little previous knowledge of surveying and firstly describes basic measuring techniques and equipment before introducing elementary surveying and levelling. From these principles, the practices and techniques used to measure and record existing buildings are developed in a detailed step-by-step approach covering sketching, measuring, plotting and drawing presentation. Further chapters deal with more advanced techniques including the use of photography, electronic distance measurement and computer-aided architectural draughting.

About this title

About the Author:

Professor Peter Swallow, Dip Surv, Cons Arch Dip, FRICS, FBEng, FRSA, IHBC, ILTM Peter Swallow is a Chartered Building Surveyor who, following a varied career in both the public and private sectors, took up a teaching post at De Montfort University where he currently holds the Chair of Building Surveying in the Department of Product and Spatial Design. He lectures widely on building defects, repairs and conservation issues and has carried out measured surveys of historic buildings in Europe, India and the United States of America. Ross W A Dallas, BSc, FRICS Ross Dallas is a professional Land Surveyor. He provides a specialist Consultancy service for the measured survey and recording of historic buildings for a range of public sector and private clients. He has spent most of his career in the field of measured survey of historic buildings. For several years he was Chief Surveyor of English Heritage Survey Services. His background is in land survey and photogrammetry, with a degree from Glasgow University. Sophie Jackson, BA, MA Sophie Jackson is a Senior Project Manager at the Museum of London Archaeological Service (MOLAS) with responsibility for the design and management of historic building and landscape projects. Sophie has been a professional archaeologist for seventeen years in the UK and abroad and has also carried out research on building design for the Civil Service. Dr David Watt, BSc (Hons), Dip Arch Cons, PhD, MSc, FRICS, IHBC David Watt is a Chartered Building Surveyor, employed as a Senior Research Fellow at De Montfort University in Leicester. He has worked in both private and public sectors, and was Conservation Officer with Norfolk County Council in 1991-96.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 187339408X
• ISBN 13: 9781873394083
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176