house construction

A step-by-step description of how a new house is built, from the architect's first blueprint to the day a family moves into its new home.

Addresses the special techniques of constructing an addition and joining it to a house.

Explains how houses are made from trees, in simple text with illustrations, from loggers cutting down trees, to machines digging holes for the foundation.

Directions for making structures of snow, cans, newspapers, and other materials often considered trash. Also includes instructions for a windmill, greenhouse, and solar heating projects.

Looks at the different parts of a house and describes how houses get built from the ground up.

Presents the history of homebuilding as practiced by the colonists in pre-Revolutionary days.

In the year following a couple's marriage surrounded by their ten best friends, different sized crews of construction workers build a house for them, from nine strong diggers to one inspector.

A small boy watches a house being built step-by-step.

Describes how people in different parts of the world build their homes using local materials available to them.

Describes the art and technique of how things are built, from mud huts to city skyscrapers.