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Books
"Rehabilitation: Danville 1978-A Strategy for Building Reuse and Neighborhood Conservation." $3.25 per copy; GPO Stock No. 024-016-00108-7. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402.
This study focuses on a district of handsome, underused tobacco warehouses and declining mill workers' residences in Danville, Va., a city of 46,000 in south-central Virginia. The Danville City Council asked the Heritage Conservation & Recreation Service to help develop a plan to preserve its tobacco and textile heritage by making it a functional part of contemporary life. HCRS subsequently sent a team of planners, historians, architects and archeologists to study the Danville district and develop a reuse plan. The study issued now contains their rehabilitation action plan.
The plan analyzes retail sales, office space and housing potential for Danville and the tobacco district through 1970; suggests specific uses for structures and areas in the district: proposes a new 15-acre urban park to border the district and the Dan River, and discusses solutions to potential traffic and parking problems.
In using the plan, Danville hopes to demonstrate to neighboring cities how to preserve historic environments by reusing them.
"Standards Systems In Canada, United Kingdom, West Germany and Denmark." Report No. NBS/GCR 79-172; 195 pp.: $9.00. National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161. Order by stock number PB 296912.
This new study of the national standards systems in four industrialized countries was performed by economist David Hemenway of Harvard University. The work examines the approaches of these nations to standards development problems similar to those faced by the United States, and includes recommendations of areas where additional research might be useful.
Basing his report on interviews and other research, Hemenway, a specialist in industrial organization theory, discusses the four standards systems in terms of: history, organization and finances, development, certification and accreditation, international standards work, consumer and labor participation, metric conversion, antitrust aspects, economic impacts, and government use of standards and its role in this area.
"Installation Guidelines for Solar DHW Systems." Available free to professionals by writing: National Solar Information Center, P.O. Box 1607, Rockville, MD 20850. Additional copies available from U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, at $4.00 ea. by ordering Stock No. 023-00-00520-4.
Installation Guidelines is one of a number of publications prepared by the technical section of the National Solar Information Center. The Center is operated by the Franklin Research Center, Philadelphia, Pa., for the U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy. It collects and disseminates information about solar heating and cooling, sharing its findings with professionals and consumers in all 50 states.
The new 111-page guide covering solar domestic hot water systems (DHW) details step-by-step standardized techniques from site selection to final testing. Schematic drawings, photos and illustrations accompany the text. Since solar techniques differ from those for conventionally fired DHW systems, the guide explains how to avoid errors which might impede performance.
"Formwork for Concrete." Fourth edition; 464 pp.; cloth bound; 1979. $25.00 to ACI members, $35.00 to nonmembers; shipping & handling fee: $2.00 per book inside U.S., $4.00 per book outside U.S. American Concrete Institute, P.O. Box 19150, Detroit, MI 48219.
This newest edition of Formwork for Concrete, commonly known as the "Green Bible" of the formwork industry, contains updated design tables and examples, and the necessary revisions to be consistent with the new ACI formwork standard ACI 347-78.
Chapters on materials and formwork use have been substantially changed, and other chapters have expanded text and illustrations. The book's 17 chapters cover everything from overall planning and design to special techniques. Building and erecting formwork get major attention.
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