Understanding building failures [electronic building]
Language: English Publication details: Abingdon Spon Press 2007Edition: 3rd edDescription: eBookISBN:- a9780415370820
- 9780203030141
- 690.21 $2 18
Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Virtual Online | EBOOK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 138442-2001 |
Introduction to building pathology -- Principles of building diagnostics -- Basic investigative methodology -- Diagnostic techniques and tools -- Deterioration mechanisms -- Durability and service life assessment -- Moisture -- Foundations -- Floors, floor finishes and DPMs -- Walls and DPCs -- Cladding -- Doors and windows -- Roofs -- Services -- Failure patterns and control
Addresses the reasons for the continuance of failures in the building industry and offers guidance for how the problems may be tackled. States that in order to understand why buildings fail it is important to understand how they are constructed. Discusses basic investigative methodology and diagnostic techniques and then considers areas such as moisture, foundations, floors, walls and DPCs, cladding, doors and windows and roofs.