The Art of Reading Buildings

By Dave Dodson and John Mittendorf

The Art of Reading Buildings focuses on the practical art of reading a building and applying its positive and negative attributes in developing a size-up for fireground operations that center on structure fires. First-due company officers, incident commanders, and safety officers will appreciate the practical "street-wise" lessons captured in the book. Chief officers, training officers, engineers, firefighters, and fire science degree candidates will benefit from the wide range of building construction topics covered in this text. - Learn on-the-spot building construction assessment using the authors' custom rapid-read street guides- Understand the technical and practical aspects of building construction - Develop a quick construction size-up for immediate application to fireground operations - Recognize firefighter traps in newer and alternative-construction methods - This text covers objectives for the National Fire Academy's Fire and Emergency Services in Higher Education (FESHE) Building Construction for Fire Protection course

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1593703422
• ISBN13: 9781593703424
• Release Date: January 2015
• Publisher: Fire Engineering Books
• Length: 430 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 11.1"