BUILDING CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK. Ninth edition. Roy Chudley. and. Roger Greeno. O Routledge ^ Taylor ^Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

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1 BUILDING CONSTRUCTION HANDBOOK Ninth edition Roy Chudley and Roger Greeno O Routledge ^ Taylor ^Francis Croup LONDON AND NEW YORK

2 notations CONTENTS Preface to ninth edition xi Part One General Built environment 2 The structure 5 Primary and secondary elements 12 Component parts and functions 15 Construction activities 19 Construction documents 20 Construction drawings 21 Building survey 28 Energy Performance Certificates 32 Method statement and programming 35 Weights and densities of building materials 37 Imposed floor loads 39 Drawings 40 Planning application 44 Modular coordination 51 Construction regulations 53 CDM regulations 54 Safety signs and symbols 55 Building Regulations 57 Accredited construction details 66 Code for Sustainable Homes 67 British Standards 68 European Standards 69 Product and practice accreditation 71 CI/SfB system of coding 73 CPI System of Coding 74 Uniclass system of coding 75 Part Two Site Works Site survey 78 Site measurement 79 Site investigations 82 Soil investigation 85 Soil assessment and testing 92 Site layout considerations 99

3 Site security 102 Site lighting and electrical supply 105 Site office accommodation 109 Site health and welfare provision 110 Materials storage 114 Materials testing 119 Timber decay and treatment 134 Protection orders for trees and structures 136 Locating public utility services 138 Setting out 139 Levels and angles 144 Road construction 147 Tubular scaffolding and scaffolding systems 157 Shoring systems 170 Demolition 179 Part Three Builders Plant General considerations 186 Bulldozers 189 Scrapers 190 Graders 191 Tractor shovels 192 Excavators 193 Transport vehicles 198 Hoists 201 Rubble chutes and skips 204 Cranes 205 Concreting plant 217 Part Four Substructure Foundationsfunction, materials and sizing 226 Foundation beds 235 Short bored pile foundations 241 Foundation types and selection 243 Piled foundations 248 Retaining walls 268 Gabions and mattresses 282 Basement excavations and construction 285 Waterproofing basements 292 Excavations 298 Concrete production 304 Cofferdams 310 Steel sheet piling 312 Caissons 313 vi

4 basic Underpinning 315 Ground water control 324 Soil stabilisation and improvement 334 Reclamation of waste land 339 Treatment of contaminated subsoil 340 Part Five Superstructure 1 Choice of materials 344 Brick and block walls 345 Cavity walls 361 Dampproof courses and membranes 367 Gasresistant membranes 374 Calculated brickwork 376 Mortars 381 Arches and openings 383 Windows 391 Glass and glazing 406 Doors 419 Crosswall construction 428 Framed construction 432 Rendering to external walls 436 Cladding to external walls 439 Roofs forms 447 Pitched roofs 450 Double lap tiling 461 Single lap tiling 470 Slating 472 Timber flat roofs 478 Dormer windows 491 Green roofs 500 Thermal insulation 502 Uvalues 507 Thermal bridging 532 Access for the disabled 538 Part Six Superstructure 2 Reinforced concrete slabs 544 Reinforced concrete framed structures 548 Reinforcement types 558 Structural concrete, fire protection 561 Formwork 562 Precast concrete frames 569 Prestressed concrete 573 vii

5 Structural steelwork sections 580 Structural steelwork connections 585 Structural fire protection 590 Portal frames 597 Composite timber beams 606 Multistorey structures 609 Roof sheet coverings 613 Long span roofs 618 Shell roof construction 628 Membrane roofs 637 Rooflights 639 Panel walls 643 Rainscreen cladding 649 Structural glazing 651 Curtain walling 652 Concrete claddings 656 Concrete surface finishes 663 Concrete surface defects 667 Part Seven Internal Construction and Finishes Internal elements 670 Internal walls 671 Construction joints 676 Internal walls, fire protection 678 Party/separating walls 680 Partitions 681 Strut design 683 Plasters and plastering 688 Dry lining techniques 692 Plasterboard 695 Wall tiling 698 Domestic floors and finishes 700 Large cast insitu ground floors 707 Concrete floor screeds 709 Timber suspended upper floors 712 Lateral restraint 715 Timber beam design 718 Holing and notching joists 721 Timber floors, fire protection 723 Reinforced concrete suspended floors 725 Precast concrete floors 730 Raised access floors 735 Sound insulation 736 Timber, concrete and metal stairs 744 viii

6 pipe fire Internal doors 775 Doorsets 777 Fireresisting doors 778 Plasterboard ceilings 784 Suspended ceilings 785 Paints and painting 789 Joinery production 793 Composite boarding 798 Plastics in building 800 Part Eight Domestic Services Drainage effluents 806 Subsoil drainage 807 Surface water removal 809 Road drainage 812 Rainwater installations 814 Drainage systems 818 Drainage sizes and gradients 827 Water supply 828 Cold water installations 830 Hot water installations 832 Flow controls 837 Cisterns and cylinders 838 Pipework joints 840 Sanitary fittings 841 Single and ventilated stack systems 844 Hot water heating systems 849 Electrical supply and installation 853 Gas supply and gas fires 862 Open fireplaces and flues 866 Services stops Telephone installations 876 and seals 875 Electronic communications installations 877 Index 879 ix