Provides all important learning contents from work processes and materials, regulations, quality management, to environment and occupational safety and health, as well as information procurement. It includes a separate chapter on thermal insulation and is increasingly used throughout the plant. The learning contents are illustrated by more than 650 illustrations and drawings, which include more than 250 interdisciplinary work assignments for action-oriented learning. It facilitates orientation through a subject index with more than 800 terms, offers overviews of all relevant directives and regulations, as well as numerous references to further resources. In the new edition, all standards have been brought up to date, the overview of wood-based materials has been updated, and the chapter on style has been revised.