Excerpt from Second Report From the Select Committee on Ventilation and Lighting of the House, 1852: Together With the Proceedings of the Committee, Minutes of Evidence, Appendix and Index Ordered, that a Select Committee be appointed to consider the best means of improving the Ventilation and Lighting of the House and its Appendages, and to Report thereupon at as early a period as may be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The proceedings of second conference of the Construction History Society, which took place on 20 and 21 March 2015 at Queens' College, Cambridge, featuring 28 peer-reviewed papers covering a wide variety of subjects on the theme of construction history.