Understanding Housing Defects

ISBN-13: 9780080971124 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 550 str.

Duncan Marshall

Opis

This fourth edition of 'Understanding Housing Defects' provides a coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in housing. Each of the chapters covers a specific building element and includes a brief introduction setting out construction principles and the evolution of current practice.

Spis treści

1. Understanding Defects – an introduction   2. Building history   3. Building Movement – Foundations   4. Building Movement -Walls   5. The investigation of structural defects   6. External Walls –Brickwork and Stonework   7. Ground Floors   8. Upper Floors   9. Pitched Roofs   10. Flat Roofs   11. External Rendering   12. Plastering and Plasterboard   13. Internal walls and partitions   14. External joinery   15. Timber Pests   16. Dampness   17. System Building   18. Environmental and health- related building problems   19. Water and Heating   20. Drainage   21. Electrical Installations

O autorze

Duncan Marshall, BSc, MCIOB, MIMBM was a Chartered Builder and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. Derek Worthing, BSc, MPhil, MRICS is a Chartered Building Surveyor and was formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. He now works as a consultant and a Visiting Lecturer. He is also a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. Roger Heath, FRICS, FFB is a Chartered Building Surveyor and was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. He now works as a Visiting Lecturer. Nigel Dann, BSc, MSc, MIOC, ICIOBwas a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK, and now works as a consultant and Visiting Lecturer in the UK, France and Belgium (KU Leuven).