Building Trades Dictionary, 4th Edition is a comprehensive resource for trades workers. The presents a wealth of information on building trades, construction equipment, tools, materials, and processes, and contains thousands of terms are definitions, along with synonyms and useful illustrations. This edition has over 1500 new terms that have been added, and several revisions of existing terms in order to reflect changes in the industry. A Contractor's Terms section includes terms that apply to estimating, building codes, labor relations, bidding, labor law, bonding and licensing.

The book also comes with a CD-ROM that contains a Custom Dictionary for Microsoft® Products that gives building trades terms to the existing Microsoft® dictionary for use in spell check and grammar check features within Microsoft® applications. The Building Trades Dictionary, Electronic Edition, allows all users to search and browse a database of the Building Trades Dictionary in an electronic format.

This new software application has a searchable database with an alphabetical display of terms, all American Tech Building Trade terms, and a mini pop-up application window for searching the database of terms without running the full application.

Contents include:

• Building Trades Terms
• Contractor's Terms
• Appendices