Building construction handbook / Roy Chudley and Roger Greeno.
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2016.
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| Edition: | Eleventh edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preface to Eleventh edition
- Part One General
- Built environment
- The structure
- Primary and secondary elements
- Component parts and functions
- Construction activities
- Construction documents
- Construction drawings
- Building survey
- Energy Performance Certificate
- Method statement and programming
- Weights and densities of building materials
- Imposed floor loads
- Drawings-notations
- Planning application
- Modular coordination
- Construction regulations
- CDM regulations
- Safety signs and symbols
- Building Regulations
- Accredited construction details
- Sustainability
- British Standards
- European Standards
- Product and practice accreditation
- CI/SfB system of coding
- CPI System of Coding
- Uniclass system of coding
- Part Two Site Works
- Site survey
- Site measurement
- Site investigations
- Soil investigation
- Soil assessment and testing
- Site layout considerations
- Site security
- Site lighting and electrical supply
- Site office accommodation
- Site health and welfare provision
- Materials storage
- Materials testing
- Timber decay and treatment
- Protection orders for trees and structures
- Locating public utility services
- Setting out
- Levels and angles
- Road construction
- Tubular scaffolding and scaffolding systems
- Shoring systems
- Demolition
- Part Three Builders Plant
- General considerations
- Bulldozers
- Scrapers
- Graders
- Tractor shovels
- Excavators
- Transport vehicles
- Hoists
- Rubble chutes and skips
- Cranes
- Concreting plant
- Concrete
- Curing
- Part Four Substructure
- Foundations-function, materials and sizing
- Foundation beds
- Short bored pile foundations
- Foundation types and selection
- Piled foundations
- Retaining walls
- Gabions and mattresses.
- Basement excavations and construction
- Waterproofing basements
- Excavations
- Concrete production
- Cofferdams
- Steel sheet piling
- Caissons
- Underpinning
- Ground water control
- Soil stabilisation and improvement
- Reclamation of waste land
- Treatment of contaminated subsoil
- Part Five Superstructure
- 1
- Choice of materials
- Stonework
- Brick manufacture
- Brick bonding
- Cavity walls
- Boundary walls
- Damp-proof courses and membranes
- Gas-resistant membranes
- Calculated brickwork
- Mortars
- Arches and openings
- Windows
- Glass and glazing
- Doors
- Crosswall construction
- Framed construction
- Rendering to external walls
- Cladding to external walls
- Roofs
- basic forms
- Pitched roofs
- Double lap tiling
- Single lap tiling
- Slating
- Timber flat roofs
- Dormer windows
- Ventilation of roofs
- Green roofs
- Thermal insulation
- U-values
- Insulation of construction elements
- Thermal bridging
- Access for the disabled
- Part Six Superstructure
- 2
- Reinforced concrete slabs
- Reinforced concrete framed structures
- Reinforcement types
- Structural concrete, fire protection
- Formwork
- Precast concrete frames
- Prestressed concrete
- Prestressed concrete systems
- Structural steelwork sections
- Structural steelwork connections
- Structural fire protection
- Portal frames
- Composite timber beams
- Multi-storey structures
- Roof sheet coverings
- Long span roofs
- Shell roof construction
- Membrane roofs
- Rooflights
- Panel walls
- Rainscreen cladding
- Structural glazing
- Curtain walling
- Concrete claddings
- Concrete surface finishes
- Concrete surface defects
- Part Seven Internal Construction and Finishes
- Internal elements
- Internal walls
- Construction joints
- Internal walls, fire protection
- Party/separating walls
- Partitions.
- Strut design
- Plasters and plastering
- Dry lining techniques
- Plasterboard
- Wail tiling
- Domestic floors and finishes
- Large cast in-situ ground floors
- Concrete floor screeds
- Timber suspended upper floors
- Lateral restraint
- Timber beam design
- Holing and notching joists
- Timber floors, fire protection
- Reinforced concrete suspended floors
- Precast concrete floors
- Raised access floors
- Sound insulation
- Timber, concrete and metal stairs
- Internal doors
- Doorsets
- Fire-resisting doors
- Plasterboard ceilings
- Suspended ceilings
- Paints and painting
- Joinery production
- Composite boarding
- Plastics in building
- Part Eight Domestic Services
- Drainage effluents
- Subsoil drainage
- Surface water removal
- Road drainage
- Rainwater installations
- Drainage systems
- Drainage
- pipe sizes and gradients
- Water supply
- Cold water installations
- Hot water installations
- Flow controls
- Cisterns and cylinders
- Pipework joints
- Sanitary fittings
- Single and ventilated stack systems
- Hot water heating systems
- Electrical supply and installation
- Gas supply and gas fires
- Open fireplaces and flues
- Services
- fire stops and seals
- Telephone installations
- Electronic communications installations
- Index.