Current reading list

My Technical book collection

Over the years I have been given or have purchased a load of construction books. a lot came from book fairs and although old, have a lot of current information, particularly wjen altering older property.

I include many here just because they form part of my general reading

Tech New Letters

  • Side Walk Talks - Google - Toronto Quayside
  • IoT Internet of Things - Stacey Higginbotham
  • Twit - Triangulation - Interview with BILL ATKINSON PART 1

I recieve many different email and general news letters, a lot are technical, but I Include them here just because I find them so interesting.

In My Technical Library

  • Surveying for Construction - William Irvine
  • Mitchell's - Components Services and finishes - 1968
  • Mitchell's - Elementary - 1967
  • Mitchell's - Structure - 1968
  • Longitude - Dava Sobel
  • Sewers & Sewage - Whyatt
  • Bauhaus - Magdalena Droste
  • Construction Mathematics - Surinder Virdi & Roy Baker
  • The Construction of Buildings Volume One - R Barry 1962
  • Architectural Technology - Stephen Emmitt
  • Introduction to Architectural Technology First Edition - Pete Silverman & Will McLean
  • Introduction to Architectural Technology Second Edition - Pete Silverman & Will McLean
  • A Guide to Map Projections - R E Bowyer
  • The CLoud Book - Met Office- Richard Hamblyn
  • A First Year Engineering Drawing - A C Parkinson
  • Mitchell Elementary 1946
  • Timber Pests - Timber Development Association 1947
  • Wood Flooring - Timber Development Association 1945
  • Building Geometry - W J Stone
  • Carpentry - W B McKay
  • Brickwork - W B McKay
  • Joinery - W B McKay
  • Building Construction Vol 1 - W B McKay ( Cloth bound )
  • Building Construction Vol 2 - W B McKay ( Cloth bound )
  • Building Construction Vol 3 - W B McKay ( Cloth bound )
  • Joinery Second Edition - W B McKay
  • A History of Architecture - Sir Banister Fletcher
  • Pure Roofing - Marley
  • SMM7 - RICS
  • Modern Practical Masonry - Donhead
  • Architects Pocket Book of Kitchen Design - Charlotte Baden Powell
  • Architects Pocket Book - Charlotte Baden Powell
  • Structural Engineers Pocket Book - Fiona Cobb
  • The White Book - British Gypsum
  • Oak Framed Buildings - Roger Newman
  • Application of Mastic Asphalt - Mastic Asphalt Council 1973
  • Brickwork - Jaggard - 1931
  • Metric Handbook Second Edition - 2005
  • Neufert Architects Data - 1970
  • Garden & Landscape Design - John Brookes 2007
  • The House Book Terence Conran 1981
  • The Segal Method - AJ Special Issue - May 4, 1988
  • Walter Way & Segals Close Grahame Wilkhu 2017
  • The Divine Proportion - H E Huntley 1970
  • 101 things I learned in Architecture School - Frederick 2007
  • Architecture in Britain 1530 - 1830 - Summerson 1993
  • Cassell's Building Construction - Prof Henry Adams 1906


  • Contact - Carl Sagan 2000

Technical Books as eBooks

  • Small data: the tiny clues that uncover huge trends - Martin Lindstom - Kindle
  • Garden Cities of To-Morrow - Howard Ebenezer - Kindle
  • The New Digital Age - Eric Smidt
  • The Signals are Talking - Amy Webb - Kindle
  • Bauhaus - Michael Siebenbrodt - Google Play
  • Autonomous - Annalee Newitz - Kindle
  • Weapons of Math Destruction - Cathy O'Neil
  • Against the Smart City = Adam Greenfield - Kindle

Personal technical books to keep

In this list I have collected my Tech books, that form part of mt general collection