Description
Course Description
Most knowledge of “how to build” comes from on-the-job experience in the industry and training from either family members or mentor/apprentice relationships, whether formal or informal. The result has been a kind of traditionalism in methods and the selection of materials. While this works to ensure the preservation and continuance of tried and true ways and means of building, it can also exclude new and improved methods and materials not known or available in the past. This course surveys some of the methods and materials that have proven themselves over the history of building in the United States, and also introduces some recent advances in the building sciences.
3 Hours