Red book, green book, blue book

[leisure17]

in UK, is (or was) there these colour books, if so what's the difference?
Cheers
Mick

 

[ztengguy]

One is red, one is green, one is blue. The difference is in the color.

What book? Title? subject?

Im thinking your talking about the AISC Steel design, they are just different releases of the code ir this is the case.

 

[Grahammachin]

These were IStructE & ICE manuals for design

Grey was steelwork, Green concrete, red masonry.

http://shop.istructe.org/topics/design-manuals.html

The Blue book refers to the SCI Steelwork Design Guide.

http://tsbluebook.steel-sci.org/Support/Entry.htm

 

[leisure17]

The red one was by The British Structural Steelwork Association - SCI. (Guidance & design of BS5950).
I have the 4th edition of this "Red Book" but have heard of different colour books banded about in conversations.

 

[ztengguy]

Well, I was way off. Years ago, the AISC Steel books were colored that way...9th was green, before that I dont recall, but were some red and blue ones.

 

[JedClampett]

The 7th Edition, as I recall, was light blue and the 8th was red.
This has to be the worst thread ever.

 

[cvg]

everybody knows the green book is the standards for public works construction or alternatively, the AASHTO Policy on Geometric Design of Highways and Streets. The red one is the Red Book of Marine Engineering and of course blue is The Blue Book of Building and Construction

 

[MiketheEngineer]

And I like Green Eggs and Ham...

 

[hotgas]

But the "Purple Book" was a USEPA guide on asbestos testing.

 

[msquared48]

I'm color blind. So what does it matter?

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

 

[JedClampett]

If you're color blind, just use the most expensive edition. It's the latest.

 

[csd72]

The green book is the connections book, the red and blue are the member tables. You can get an online copy of the member tables from either the SCI ir the corus website.

Not sure how these work with the eurocodes though, I believe there is a whole lot of new guidance books on that.

 

[Ussuri]

The Red book is a cut down version of the Blue Book. It is also A5 while the other one is A4.