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Guide to Building Control.
To clarify the practical requirements of the Building Regs and help you meet their requirements first go, all the information contained in the Building Regulations 2010 and Approved Documents is presented here in an easy-to-understand format, clear, concise and fully illustrated. Guidance is given f...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autor principal: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Chicester :
Wiley,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; About the Author; Acknowledgements; Notes to the Reader; Expected Changes to the Building Regulations to Come into Force in 2013; Section 1: General information; Introduction; The Building Act 1984 and the Building Regulations 2010; Approved Documents; Approved Documents and sections they cover; Materials and workmanship; Other ways of satisfying the Building Regulations requirements; Technical and condensation risks; Timber-sizing tables independently calculated by GEOMEX for solid timber members; Engaging a property professional.
- Obtaining Building Regulations approvalOption 1: Local Authority route; Option 2: Approved Inspector route; Notices of stages of works; Exempt buildings and work; Option 3: Competent Person Schemes; Preliminary works; Site assessment; Demolitions; Statutory service authorities; Public sewers; Existing services; Structural timber; Opening up of the existing structure; Protection of Bats; Protection of the works; Japanese knotweed; Matters related to the Building Regulations; Planning Permission, listed building and conservation area consents; Health and safety at work; The Party Wall Act 1996.
- IntroductionWhere the Act applies; Disputes under the Act; Other Items; Reference sources; Rights of Light; Introduction; Does a Right of Light exist?; What is a Right of Light?; So what is an Injury?; Reference sources; Section 2: Domestic extensions; Part A: Structure; A1: Sub-structure; Foundations; Concrete mixes for foundations; Foundation types; Building near trees, hedges, shrubs or in clay subsoils; Alternative foundation designs; Retaining walls and basements; Basements and tanking systems; Ground floors and sub-structure walls; Sub-structure walls; Ground floors; A2: Superstructure.
- Minimum headroom heightsExternal walls; Sizes and proportions of residential buildings up to three storeys; Measuring storey heights; Measuring wall heights; Measuring external/compartment/separating wall lengths; Thickness of walls; Compressive strength of masonry units; External cavity wall construction; Cavity wall construction; Buttressing, sizes of openings and recesses in cavity walls; Walls between heated and unheated areas; External timber-framed walls with separate brick or block finish; External timber-framed stud walls; External walls.
- External timber-framed walls with render finishExternal timber-framed walls with cladding finish; Lateral restraint strapping of upper floors to walls; (i) Strapping of floor joists parallel to walls; (ii) Strapping of floor joists at right angles to walls; Lateral restraint strapping of roofs to walls; Strapping of roofs to gable-end walls; Strapping of wall plates and roofs at eaves level; Lateral restraint strapping of walls at ceiling level; A3: Separating walls and floors; Masonry party walls separating dwellings; Double-leaf timber-frame party walls separating dwellings.