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E book Particulars :
Language English
Pages 352
Format PDF
Measurement 1.84 MB

Dictionary of Construction Terms by Simon Tolson

Book Description:

The Dictionary of Construction Terms offers clear and concise explanations of the most commonly encountered legal and technical terms, phrases and abbreviations used throughout the construction industry. It will save valuable time when searching for an authoritative explanation of a frequently used term and will become a practical reference for construction lawyers, practitioners and students, as well as those in related industries including planning, property and insurance.

Why you should buy this book:

There is no other all-inclusive collection of legal and technical terms available at present
Convenient source of information for lawyers, practitioners and students
Includes a list of common technical acronyms (ie. DPC, DPM, FFL)
Lists acronyms of common institutions such as the ICE, JCT and ACE


Even for the skilled building skilled or specialist authorized practitioner, the supply of an clever and usable dictionary of building phrases is vitally essential. It is just as soon as one understands the phrases getting used that one can start to grasp the issue or situation which must be addressed. Some 35 years in the past, a deputy choose coping with a case solely in regards to the alleged inadequacy of purlins in a roof left it till the fourth and fi nal day of the trial to ask what a purlin was.While one wouldn’t blame any regular individual for not realizing what a purlin was, it didn’t create any confi dence amongst the attorneys and shoppers concerned within the case that the choose left it till the final day to ask. If he had had entry to this Dictionary, the choose would have been instructed that it’s “A horizontal beam in a roof carried on the principal rafters”. He would have been a greater knowledgeable choose initially of the case. This explicit Dictionary has an intensive record of defi nitions not solely of the technical building and engineering phrases but in addition of the associated authorized, litigation, adjudication or arbitration phrases about which events must know within the fashionable world.

It’s important that events concerned in building, engineering and expertise perceive what the phrases used by different events truly imply. It’ll typically be as essential to grasp what a “quoin” is as to understand what an precise or would-be lawyer means by referring to a “quantum meruit”. This Dictionary attracts collectively 1000’s of phrases and phrases each from the technical and authorized sides of the enterprise and that’s vitally essential, for my part, for folks in any respect ranges concerned within the building, engineering and expertise enterprise.

For trainees and totally skilled personnel throughout the building and engineering enterprise and for folks inside and certainly outdoors the authorized and building professions, an excellent broadly drawn dictionary is crucial. I might commend this Dictionary as a particularly helpful assist to on a regular basis follow each for skilled and untrained and skilled and even inexperienced folks concerned within the building, engineering and expertise areas. This Dictionary of Construction Terms is meant to cowl a variety of the extra frequent as nicely extra esoteric but essential phrases a constructing skilled, lawyer, pupil, choose, arbitrator, adjudicator, engineering economist or the like could require definition upon within the building regulation subject.

The intention is to clear the fog, and to take action concisely in clear English in an alphabetical format. So whether or not you’re on the lookout for the reply to a spandrel panel, chequerplate, revetment, or NAECI or what is supposed by nemo dat quod non habet or the rule in Pinnel’s case, we now have it right here, and an entire lot extra. How did it begin? In about 1994 I began assembling a building database on my Psion Organiser (for these that may bear in mind such pocket computer systems) repeatedly including constructing and engineering phrases, authorized references and many others related to the fi rm’s work as building attorneys. I used to be at all times excited to be taught new phrases and add to the report.

Then about 10 years in the past with the appearance of highly effective networked computing and software program techniques, Fenwick Elliott created its personal intranet platform, and that database was uploaded to it. It was coined by the offi ce, “Simon Says”. This information quickly grew with our busy worldwide follow and with tasks which are extra complicated the authorized points thrown up blossomed in tandem with the brand new applied sciences.

Dictionary of Construction Terms PDF

Author(s): Simon Tolson

Publisher: Informa Law from Routledge

Year: 2012

ISBN: 1843117940

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