Illustrated Guide to the 2006 International Plumbing and Sewage Codes

A unique visual approach to interpreting and applying the 2006 International Plumbing and Sewage CodeWhile other plumbing code books are annotated guides filled with almost as much legalese as the code itself, this is the only book to use illustrations as the basis for explanation, a bulleted format for text, and real-world case studies to explain how to apply and interpret the 2006 International Plumbing and Sewage Code.

Key features

Illustrations that allow pros to quickly comprehend complicated information
Written in plain English with all text presented in bulleted format, this book makes the codes accessible to a wider variety of tradesmen, managers, architects and engineers than other books
Plenty of short, to-the-point case studies that illustrate how to interpret complex code information

Author Biography

Terry Patterson is a licensed architect, a professor of architecture at the University of Oklahoma, Norman, and the author of several respected books in the field. He has 32 years of professional and teaching experience. He is the author of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Meaning of Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold), Construction Materials for Architects and Designers (Prentice-Hall), and co-author of Architectural Drawing and Design (Macmillan). He also wrote the Student Workbook and Instructor’s Manual for Van Nostrand Reinhold’s Construction: Principles, Materials, and Methods. He is a professional member of Building Officials & Code Administrators International, Inc. Always thorough in his research, he based this current book not only on his own extensive experience, but also on his detailed study of change proposals and public hearings for the new code, the three model codes on which the new code is based, and on numerous interviews and surveys with other architects and code officials.