CONTENTS Preface to seventh edition xi Part 1 General Built environment 2 The structure 5 Primary and secondary elements12 Component parts and functions 15 Construction activities 19 Construction documents 20 Construction drawings 21 Building surveys 28 HIPSIEnergy Performance Certificates 32 Method statement and programming 33 Weights and densities of building materials 35 Drawings - notations 37 Planning application 41 Modular coordination 46 Construction regulations 48 COM regulations 49 Safety signs and symbols 50 Building Regulations 52 Code for Sustainable Homes 58 British Standards 59 European Standards 60 Product and practice accreditation 62 CPI System of Coding 63 CPSIB system of coding. 64 Part 2 Site Works Site survey 66 Site investigations 67 Soil investigation 70 Soil assessment and testing 77 Site layout considerations 84 Site security 87 Site lighting and electrical supply 90 Site office accommodation 94 Materials storage 97 Locating public utility services 110 Setting out111 Levels and angles 115 Road construction118 Tubular scaffolding and scaffolding systems 126 Shoring systems 139 Demolition147 Part 3 Builders Plant General considerations 152 Bulldozers155 Scrapers156 Graders 157 Tractor shovels 158 Excavators 159 Transport vehicles 164 Hoists167 Rubble chutes and skips 169 Cranes 170 Concreting plant 182 Part 4 Substructure Foundations-function, materials and sizing 190 Foundation beds 199 Short bored pile foundations 205 Foundation types and selection 207 Piled foundations 212 Retaining walls 230 Gabions and mattresses 244 Basement construction 251 Waterproofing basements 254 Excavations 260 Concrete production 266 Cofferdams 272 Caissons 274 Underpinning 276 Ground water control 285 Soil stabilisation and improvement 295 Reclamation of waste land 300 Contaminated sub-soil treatment 301 Part 5 Superstructure - 1 Choice of materials 304 Brick and block walls 305 Cavity walls 320 Damp-proof courses and membranes 326 Gas resistant membranes 333 Calculated brickwork 335 Mortars 338 Arches and openings 341 Windows 348 Glass and glazing 361 Doors373 Crosswall construction 382 Framed construction 386 Cladding to external walls 390 Roofs - basic forms 392 Pitched roofs 395 Plain tiling 402 Single lap tiling 408 Slating 410 Flat roofs 416 Dormer windows 419 Dry and wet rot 428 Green roofs 430 Thermal insulation 432 'U' values 437 Thermal bridging 452 Access for the disabled 456 Part 6 Superstructure - 2 Reinforced concrete slabs 461 Reinforced concrete framed structures 464 Reinforcement types 474 Structural concrete, fire protection 476 Formwork 478 Precast concrete frames 483 Prestressed concrete 487 Structural steelwork sections 494 Structural steelwork connections 499 Structural fire protection 504 Portal frames 510 Composite timber beams 518 Multi-storey structures 520 Roof sheet coverings 524 Long span roofs 529 Shell roof construction 536 Membrane roofs 544 Rooflights 546 Panel walls 552 Rainscreen cladding 556 Structural glazing 558 Curtain walling 559 Concrete claddings 563 Concrete surface finishes 566 Concrete surface defects 568 Part 7 Internal Constructio Internal elements 570 Internal walls 571 Construction joints 576 Internal walls, fire protection 576 Party/separating walls 579 Partitions 581 Plasters and plastering 587 Dry lining techniques 589 Wall tiling 593 Domestic floors and finishes 593 Large cast in-situ ground floors Concrete floor screeds 604 Timber suspended floors 606 Lateral restraint 608 Timber beam design 612 Timber floors, fire protection 618 Reinforced concrete suspended Precast concrete floors 620 Raised access floors 623 Sound insulation 625 Timber, concrete and metal stairs Internal doors 654 Doorsets 657 Fire resisting doors 658 Plasterboard ceilings 664 Suspended ceilings 665 Paints and painting 669 Joinery production 673 Composite boarding 678 Plastics in building 680 Part 8 Domestic Services Drainage effluents 682 Subsoil drainage 683 Surface water removal 685 Road drainage 688 Rainwater installations 692 Drainage systems 694 Drainage pipe sizes and gradients 702 Water supply 703 Cold water installations 705 Hot water installations 707 Flow controls 710 Cisterns and cylinders 711 Pipework joints 713 Sanitary fittings 714 Single and ventilated stack systems 717 Domestic hot water heating systems 720 Electrical supply and installation 724 Gas supply and gas fires 733 Services-fire stops and seals 737 Open fireplaces and flues 738 Telephone installations 747 Electronic communications installations 748 Index 749