Envelope Design for Buildings by William Allen
This text details the investigation and remedy of a range of misfortunes which have afflicted buildings. It provides a body of back up for modern design and useful material for conservation and surveyors who have to evaluate premises or become specification writers. The book is divided into two parts, the first dealing with external and internal climates and the second with the ways in which the main categories of basements, walls and roof systems operation mediate between them.