Building surveys and reports /
This book deals with structural surveys for all types of building - domestic industrial and commercial - and includes diagnosis of a wide range of defects. It considers both modern and older construction methods, and deals with the particular problems of alterations and restoration work. Guidance is...
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Oxford ; Malden, MA :
Blackwell Pub.,
2005.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to Third Edition
- Acknowledgements
- 1 General Principles and Responsibilities
- 1.1 What is a building survey?
- 1.2 Housing quality initiatives
- 1.3 The purpose of the survey
- 1.4 Building condition assessment
- 1.5 Surveyor's responsibilities
- 1.6 Contracts and fees
- 2 Procedure and Equipment
- 2.1 Basic survey methodology
- 2.2 Preliminary operations
- 2.3 Property risks
- 2.4 Equipment for measured drawing surveys
- 2.5 Equipment for examining defects
- 3 Measurement of Existing Buildings
- 3.1 Preliminaries
- 3.2 Internal measuring
- 3.3 Roof space
- 3.4 External measuring
- 3.5 Levelling
- 3.6 Plotting the survey
- 4 Surveys of Historic Buildings
- 4.1 General considerations
- 4.2 Medieval churches
- 4.3 Church towers
- 4.4 Church bells and fittings
- 4.5 Measured drawings
- 5 Foundation Failures
- 5.1 Introductory
- 5.2 Causes of failure
- 5.3 Differential movement
- 5.4 Inadequate foundations
- 5.5 Overloading
- 5.6 Unequal settlement
- 5.7 Effect of tree roots
- 5.8 Shallow foundations
- 5.9 Building on sloping sites
- 5.10 Building on made up ground
- 5.11 Diagnosis
- 6 Defective Walls and Partitions Above Ground
- 6.1 Type of failure
- 6.2 Bulging and leaning walls
- 6.3 Overloading
- 6.4 Thermal and moisture movement
- 6.5 Failure in arches and lintels
- 6.6 Defective materials and chemical action
- 6.7 Failure in bonding and defects at junctions
- 6.8 Frost failure
- 6.9 Cavity walls
- 6.10 Built-in iron and steel members
- 6.11 Tile and slate hanging and weatherboarding
- 6.12 Partitions
- 6.13 Assessment of cracks
- 6.14 Natural stone masonry
- 6.15 Sedimentary rocks
- 6.16 Igneous rocks
- 6.17 Metamorphic rocks
- 6.18 Defects in stonework
- 6.19 Cast stone
- 6.20 Recording defects
- 7 Reinforced Concrete, Cladding Materials and Structural Steelwork
- 7.1 Description
- 7.2 Corrosion and cracking
- 7.3 Aggregates
- 7.4 High alumina cement
- 7.5 Thermal expansion
- 7.6 Frost damage
- 7.7 Electrolytic action
- 7.8 Lightweight aggregates
- 7.9 Deflection
- 7.10 Diagnosis
- 7.11 Brick panel walls in RC frames
- 7.12 No-fines concrete housing
- 7.13 Autoclaved aerated concrete
- 7.14 Description
- 7.15 Cladding defects
- 7.16 Joint problems
- 7.17 Metallic fasteners
- 7.18 Description
- 7.19 Diagnosis
- 8 Damp Penetration and Condensation
- 8.1 Description
- 8.2 Damp courses
- 8.3 Diagnosis
- 8.4 Solid walls with DPC absent or defective
- 8.5 Stone walls in older buildings
- 8.6 Basement walls and floors
- 8.7 Heaped earth or paving against walls and bridging of rendering
- 8.8 Internal partitions
- 8.9 Rising damp in ground floors
- 8.10 Rising damp in old timber framed buildings
- 8.11 Locating damp penetration
- 8.12 Parapet walls
- 8.13 Cavity walls
- 8.14 Leaks in plumbing systems
- 8.15 Description
- 8.16 Cau.