Terri Meyer Boake published by Birkhäuser

Available January 2015, Professor Terri Meyer Boake has just published a new text, Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel: Specifications, Connections, Details, through Birkhäuser of Switzerland. The book is available for pre-order through DeGruyter.

book cover of Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel

Building with exposed steel has become more and more popular worldwide, also as advances in fire safety technology have permitted its use for building tasks under stringent fire regulations. This book provides the means for a better control and purposeful consideration of the design of Architecturally Exposed Structural Steel (AESS). It deploys a detailed categorization of AESS and its uses according to design context, building typology and visual exposure. Among the fields covered by this extensive approach are the characteristics of the various categories of AESS, the interrelatedness of design, fabrication and erection of the steel structures, issues of coating and protection (including corrosion and fire protection), special materials like weathering steel and stainless steel, the member choices and a connection design checklist. In a rare combination, this approach makes high quality benchmarks compatible with economies in terms of material use, fabrication methods, workforce and cost.

Congratulations Terri!