Building Construction Handbook, Eighth Edition

(Nancy Kaufman) #1

Ground water control, 303 12
Grouting-subsoil, 311
Grouting-tiles, 646
Guard rail, 1413, 145, 147, 150 1
Gusset base, 539
Gusset plate, 552, 563, 566


Half hour fire door, 720
Hammer head junction, 132
Hand auger, 78
Hand auger holes, 73
Handrail, 6856, 688, 690, 6935, 6989,
704 6, 708, 710 11
Hardwoods, 738
Half space landing, 693 4
Health and Safety at Work, etc. Act, 49, 51
Hearths, 8013, 808
Helical binding, 504 5
Helical stairs, 698
Helmets, 238, 242
Hemispherical dome, 579
Herringbone strutting, 659
HETAS, 479
High performance window, 369
Highway dumpers, 181
Hinge or pin joints, 5489, 551
Hipped roof, 418 21
Hip tiles, 431, 437
Home Information Pack, 32
Hoardings, 89 93
Hoists, 183 4
Holding down bolts, 522, 537, 539, 551 2
Hollow box floor units, 673
Hollow pot floor, 671 2
Hollow steel sections, 532 3
Horizontal shore, 156 7
Horizontal sliding sash window, 374
Hot water:
cylinders, 76973, 776
direct system, 771
expansion vessel, 772
heating systems, 784 7
indirect system, 772
mains fed, 773
House Longhorn beetle, 463
Hull core structures, 561
Hyperbolic paraboloid roof, 9, 5835, 588


Immersion heater cable, 794
Imposed floor load, 37
Inclined slab stair, 696, 699
Independent scaffold, 124
Indirect cold water system, 770
Indirect cylinder, 7723, 776
Indirect hot water system, 772


Industrial doors, 396 9
Infill panel walls, 596 9
Inspection chambers, 746, 752, 757 63  9
Insulating dpc, 350, 489
Insulation of basements, 277
Insulationfire, 720
Insulationsound, 679 84
Insulationthermal, 467 91
Integrityfire,720, 722
Interest on capital outlay costing, 169
Internal asphalt tanking, 275
Internal doors, 391, 716 23
Internal drop hammer, 230, 241, 243
Internal elements, 618
Internal environment, 2
Internal partitions, 629 35
Internal walls:
block, 6229, 680 1
brick, 621, 6269, 680 1
functions, 619
plaster finish, 636 8
plasterboard lining, 6324, 639 44
types, 620
International Standards, 64
Intumescent collar, 810
Intumescent strips/seals, 720 3
Inverted warm deck, 450
Iroko, 738
Ironmongery, 371, 375, 395, 719
Isolated foundations, 214, 225
Isometric projection, 24

Jack pile underpinning, 297
Jambs, 344, 350, 363, 365, 4889, 491
Jarrah, 738
Jet grouting, 311, 313, 317
Jetted sumps, 304
Jetted well points, 305 6
Joinery production, 734 8
Joinery timbers, 737 8
Jointing and pointing, 332
Jointless suspended ceiling, 727
Joints:
basements, 273
blockwork, 621 3
cladding, 610 13
drainage, 764
laminated timber, 553
portal frame, 549 52
roads, 135
Joists:
timber, 559, 649, 658 67
steel, 533 4
Joist sizingtimber, 658, 663 5
Joist sizingsteel, 544 6

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