Interior Design Reference Manual: A Guide to the NCIDQ Exam (3rd Edition)

By David Kent Ballast

Book Overview

*Add the convenience of accessing this book anytime, anywhere on your personal device with the eTextbook version for only $50 at ppi2pass.com/etextbook-program.*Interior Design Reference Manual: Everything You Need to Know to Pass the NCIDQ Exam offers a comprehensive review of all NCIDQ exam content areas.The Interior Design Reference Manual features include: complete coverage of content areas for every division of the NCIDQ(R) Examupdated for the IBC 2015 changes included in the examan updated study schedule to keep your studies on trackover 200 figures in SI and U.S. measurements to illustrate design detailsstudy guidelines, exam tips, and tables to support exam preparationan updated study schedule to organize study prioritiesExam Content Areas CoveredDesign Concepts and ProgrammingDesign ConstraintsBuilding Systems and ConstructionResearch, Analysis, and Selection of Products and DetailsCommunication and DocumentationProject and Business Management This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591261066
• ISBN13: 9781591261063
• Release Date: May 2007
• Publisher: Professional Publications Inc
• Length: 619 Pages
• Weight: 3.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 8.5" x 10.9"

Customer Reviews

Interior Design Reference Manual: A Guide to the NCIDQ Exam

Exam Sections I, II, & III correspond to the three exams that are administered to Interior Design license candidates, a requirement in the State of Illinois.

Helpful review for the NCIDQ exam

This version of the review manual is thorough and updated from the first edition. It discusses sustainablility issues, fire protection and current code information with which interior design professionals should be familiar. Even if you are not taking the exam, this book tells you how to operate as a professional and how to protect yourself in the business world of interior design.

A big book with an awful lot of information.

Now in it's third edition published in 2006 and brought up to date. This is the standard reference guide to the NCIDQ examination, but more than that this is an excellent reference book into designing the interior of a structure be it a house or a commercial building. For instance, you may be designing an office that has to meet the Americans for Disabilities Act (ADA) -- How wide must a hallway be to allow two wheel chairs...

A Must Book for NCIDQ Preparation !!!!!

Well-summarized and easy to follow. The book covers almost all the information you need to pass NCIDQ test. There are 23 (or 24!?) chapters and it takes about 2 months to study the entire book. Every chapters starts with reviewing basics so that you do not have to go back here and there of your old textbooks from schools. Combined with 3-day classes for NCIDQ and 1-day class on building codes offered by ASID, I passed...