Building construction
Building construction combines the technical and managerial aspects of the construction industry. The required courses focus on construction, technical competency, and business. The program offers two track options where students take classes in structural, mechanical/electrical systems, engineering design, construction means and methods, building materials, real estate, and land development. This guide presents online resources for the study and professional practice of construction. The tools listed below range from disciplinary and interdisciplinary article databases (some containing full text) to indexes for standards and technical reports.
Getting started with academic research | Overview of building construction | Recommended databases | Construction materials | Drawings and case studies
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals from EBSCOhost
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals from EBSCOhost
Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text articles in architecture and design from American and international scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and publications of professional organizations. In addition, this database also provides citation records for architects' obituaries. Full text, when available, is in PDF and HTML. 1800s-present.
Compendex from Engineering Village
Compendex from Engineering Village
Compendex indexes citations and abstracts from over 5,000 engineering journals, conference papers, books, patents, dissertations, and technical reports. 1884-present.
ASCE Civil Engineering Database
ASCE Civil Engineering Database
The Civil Engineering Database (CEDB) indexes citations for all ASCE publications. The database covers all the journals, conference proceedings, books, standards, manuals, magazines, and newspapers published by ASCE. Journal papers with abstracts go back to 1970. Non-abstract journal records go back to 1958. The book records are complete dating back to the early 1900s.
Construction Criteria Base (CCB) from the National Institute of Building Sciences
Construction Criteria Base (CCB) from the National Institute of Building Sciences
Construction Criteria Base (CCB) is an extensive electronic library of construction guide specifications, manuals, standards, and other essential criteria documents. Published and updated continuously, CCB contains the complete unabridged, approved, current electronic equivalents of over 10,000 documents direct from participating federal agencies. CCB is an effective tool for finding and using current, approved U.S. construction criteria. Documents are available as PDFs and as word-processing formats or in the SPECSINTACT specification processing program used by the Army, NAVFAC and NASA.
Business Source Complete from EBSCOhost
Business Source Complete from EBSCOhost
Business Source Complete is a citation, abstracts, and full-text database that indexes journals; books; financial data; reference works; conference proceedings; company, industry, investment, marketing, and country reports; SWOT analyses; and case studies. Full text is provides as HTML and PDF. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. 1886-present; most content is 1980s-present.
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Resource provides self archiving opportunities and open access documents.Related subject guides
Engineering standards
Information on finding standards from ASABE, ASME, ASTM, IEEE, SAE J, military specifications, ordering standards via interlibrary loan, and standard indexes online.
