Building Construction Handbook, Eighth Edition

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

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  • Built environment Part One General

  • The structure

  • Primary and secondary elements

  • Component parts and functions

  • Construction activities

  • Construction documents

  • Construction drawings

  • Building survey

  • HIPs/Energy Performance Certificates

  • 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

  • Code for Sustainable Homes

  • British Standards

  • European Standards

  • Product and practice accreditation

  • CPI System of Coding

  • CI/SfB system of coding

  • Site survey Part Two Site Works

  • Site investigations

  • Soil investigation

  • Soil assessment and testing

  • Site layout considerations

  • Site security

  • Site lighting and electrical supply

  • Site office accommodation

  • Materials storage

  • Materials testing

  • Dry and wet rot

  • 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

  • General considerations Part Three Builders Plant

  • Bulldozers

  • Scrapers

  • Graders

  • Tractor shovels

  • Excavators

  • Transport vehicles

  • Hoists

  • Rubble chutes and skips

  • Cranes

  • Concreting plant

  • Foundations--function, materials and sizing Part Four Substructure

  • Foundation beds

  • Short bored pile foundations

  • Foundation types and selection

  • Piled foundations

  • Retaining walls

  • Gabions and mattresses

  • Basement construction

  • Waterproofing basements

  • Excavations

  • Concrete production

  • Cofferdams

  • Caissons

  • Underpinning

  • Ground water control

  • Soil stabilisation and improvement

  • Reclamation of waste land

  • Contaminated sub-soil treatment

  • Part Five Superstructure†

  • Choice of materials

  • Brick and block walls

  • Cavity 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

  • Flat roofs

  • Dormer windows

  • Green roofs

  • Thermal insulation

  • ‘U’ values

  • Thermal bridging

  • Access for the disabled

  • Part Six Superstructure†

  • Reinforced concrete slabs

  • Reinforced concrete framed structures

  • Reinforcement types

  • Structural concrete, fire protection

  • Formwork

  • Precast concrete frames

  • Prestressed concrete

  • 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

  • Internal elements Part Seven Internal Construction and Finishes

  • Internal walls

  • Construction joints

  • Internal walls, fire protection

  • Party/separating walls

  • Partitions

  • Strut design

  • Plasters and plastering

  • Dry lining techniques

  • Plasterboard

  • Wall tiling

  • Domestic floors and finishes

  • Large cast in-situ ground floors

  • Concrete floor screeds

  • Timber suspended floors

  • Lateral restraint

  • Timber beam design

  • 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

  • Drainage effluents Part Eight Domestic Services

  • 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

  • Telephone installations

  • Electronic communications installations

  • Index

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