Download or read book Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction (2 vols) written by Wright and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-11-23 with total page 670 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building construction is the subject of this third part of the Ancient Building Technology set dealing with the history of building and building materials). Beginning with the formulation of a project it goes on to discuss preliminary site surveying and setting out, followed by building site development and its attendant installations, and then examines the disposition of the various building materials in building construction from pre-history to the end of antiquity.