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Part C: Site Preparation & resistance to contaminants & moisture
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By
Mike Billington, Freelance Consultant, UK
Description
As the Building Regulations and Approved Documents have become more and more complex, they have become increasingly unfriendly for a professional
user. Compliance is only possible by understanding a wide range of supporting documentation. Alternative approaches are implied, but
not described or analysed.
This book examines Approved Document C on Site Preparation and takes the user through all the key stages
of preparation, compliance, inspection and enforcement. It offers practical advice on using not just the traditional routes to compliance
but also on the alternative approaches suggested but not explained in the Approved Documents. The advantages and disadvantages of each
form of compliance are analysed in depth.
Everything you need to know to prepare a site's fixtures against contamination and moisture
is discussed, including floors, walls, window frames, door tresholds, and roofs. This is an indispensable text for professional designers,
architects, structural and other specialist engineers, building control officers and students in construction, building and architecture.
Audience
Professional designers, architects, structural and other specialist engineers, building control officers and also students in construction, building and architecture
Contents
Introduction
Series introduction
Introduction to the Building Regulations
What are Building Regulations?
What do they apply to?
How
are they enforced?
Introduction to Part C - Site preparation and resistance to contaminants and moisture
General introduction, background
and legislation changes
The regulatory impact of Climate change
The Environmental Protection Act 1990
The Building Regulation requirements
Ways of satisfying the requirements
Site Preparation And Resistance To Contaminants
Clearance or treatment of unsuitable material
Site investigation
Unsuitable material (vegetable matter and tree roots)
Resistance to contaminants
Definitions
Sites likely to contain
contaminants
Carrying out a risk assessment
Stages of a risk assessment
Hazard identification and assessment
Risk estimation and
evaluation
Remedial measures
Treatment
Containment Removal
Risks to buildings, building materials and services
Aggressive substances
Combustible fill
Expansive slags
Methane and associated gases
Risk evaluation
Remedial measures
Radon
Determining the level of
protection
Detailed protective measures
Subsoil drainage
Provision of subsoil drainage
Dealing with existing subsoil drains
Measures
to prevent the entry of ground water
Flooding
Resistance To Moisture
Floors
Moisture from the ground
Ground supported floors
Suspended
timber ground floors
Suspended concrete ground floors
Resistance to damage from interstitial condensation
Resistance to surface condensation
and mould growth
Walls
Moisture from the ground (internal and external walls)
Moisture from outside
Solid external walls
Cavity external
walls
Cavity insulation
Framed external walls
Cracking of external walls
Impervious cladding systems for walls
Joints between walls
and doors and window frames
Door thresholds
Resistance to damage from interstitial condensation
Resistance to surface condensation
and mould growth
Roofs
Resistance to moisture from outside
Resistance to damage from interstitial condensation
Pitched roofs (over
15 deg) with an attic space
Roofs pitched at less than 15 deg without an attic space
Resistance to surface condensation and mould growth
| Bibliographic details |
Paperback, 232 pages, publication date: MAR-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-7506-6258-1
ISBN-10: 0-7506-6258-1
Imprint: BUTTERWORTH HEINEMANN
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