Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods
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This edition of Fundamentals of Building Construction: Materials and Methods by Edward Allen is a general-interest book whose subject is easy to identify. The available edition details are 1998 • John Wiley & Sons Inc • 852 pages.
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