Bøger af Ralph Bailey

Boardwalks and decks seldom fail because the designer has miscalculated member size. Rather premature degrade is usually associated with the failure to attend to many small points of detail. This book explains these details and illustrated what happens when best practice is not followed.To guide the designer through a maze of little known and understood details that are often overlooked, this guide includes a design checklist which you will find very helpful.This work includes over 100 images and a number of case histories. Also included is a step by step explanation of how to lay out a commercial deck

Timber in Playgrounds guides a professional designer, asset owner and inspector through the different aspects of that must be attended to when bringing to fruition a timber playground that ages gracefully with a long service life along with low maintenance and, above all, is fit for purpose. It looks at the requirements under the Australian Standards tht relate to timber use in playgrounds and assesses their suitability and concludes that they give no design certainty and can even be very dangerous. The three species groups that designers are likely to encounter hardwood, cypress and pine in both sawn and round are investigated. Other areas examined in detail are how to engage with the ground, how to detail joints and timber preservation. The book concludes with a design checklist and a number of case histories.