Index
- Access at heights, 88
- Access bowl drain system, 59
- Access points to drains, 56
- Access to site, 31
- Achieving low U‐values, 293
- Acoustic insulation, 190, 486
- Additives, 611
- Adhesive fixing of insulation, 247
- Adobe, 308
- Airbourne sound, 431
- Air changes, 425
- Air space resistances, 623
- Air test, 65, 738
- Airtightness, 420, 422, 503, 590
- testing, 686
- Aluminium
- Angle blocks, 567
- Anhydrite floor finish, 194
- Annealed flat glasses, 473
- Application of paint, 612
- Applied finishes, 588
- Arches, 269
- Architrave, 607
- Area of glass, 415
- Argon gas, 481
- Artificial lighting, 680
- Ashlar masonry joints, 263
- Asphalt DPM, 168
- Asphalt roof covering, 384
- Assisted natural ventilation systems, 636
- Auger boring, 24
- Auto‐pneumatic pressure vessel, 710
- Axed arches, 258
- Backdrop inspection chamber, 59
- Background surfaces for plaster, 596
- Ball valve, 696
- Balusters, 570
- Balustrade, 579
- Bathroom electrics, 672
- Baths, 728
- Battens, 341
- Beam and slab raft foundation, 149
- Bearing capacity, 95, 104
- Bearing pressures, 107
- Bedding pipes, 50
- Bedrock, 93
- Bidets, 731
- Binders, 611
- Biomass, 641
- Birdcage scaffolding, 81
- Bitumen
- Blinding layer, 163
- Blockwork, 221
- Body tinted glass, 473, 475
- Bolection moulding, 513
- Bonded screeds, 174
- Bonding agents, 597
- Bonding bricks and blocks, 227
- Boot lintels, 254
- Boreholes, 24
- Bottom hung windows, 441
- Boundaries of sites, 18
- Branch pipes, 735
- Bricks, 213
- Brickwork, 213
- British Standard colour system, 610
- Building control, 11
- Building performance modelling, 684
- Building user surveys, 687
- Bullnose steps, 571
- Cables and conduits, 675
- Calcium silicate bricks, 215
- Cantilevered concrete stairs, 577
- Capillary joint, 717
- Carriage, for stairs, 571
- Casement, 447
- Cast glass, 475
- Casting lintels, 252
- Casting plaster, 594
- Cast iron pipes, 45
- Caves and fissures, 103
- Cavity closer, 280
- Cavity trays, 286
- Cavity walls, 270
- insulation, 286
- Ceiling finishes, 589
- Cellular raft foundation, 151
- Cement mortar, 224
- Cement plaster, 593
- Central hot water supply, 701
- Centring, 260
- Cesspool, 66
- Channels
- Chases in walls, 208
- Chimney pots, 653
- Chimneys, 647
- stacks, 652
- Choices, 12
- Cills, 281, 489
- Cistern feed
- Classification of bricks, 215
- Clay
- Clay and silt soils, 97
- Climate change, 6
- Close couple roof, 320
- Closed‐circuit television (CCT) surveys, 66
- Coarse‐grained non‐cohesive soils, 96
- Coheating test, 686
- Cold roof, 359
- Cold water supply, 691, 693
- Cold weather working, 32
- Collar roof, 321
- Colour, 609
- Combined foundations, 141
- Combustable materials near chimneys, 650
- Composite action windows, 444
- Compression joint, 718
- Concrete, 116
- Condition survey, 23
- Conduction, 620
- Conduit for electrics, 676
- Constructability, 9
- Construction principles, 8
- Construction (Design and Management) Regulations, 12
- Consumer’s electrical installation, 662
- Contact pressure, 110
- Contaminants, 20
- Contaminated land, 19
- Control joints, 187, 198
- Convection, 620
- Cooling of interiors, 635
- Copper
- Cornice and parapet walls, 264
- Couple roof, 318
- Cramps, 267
- Cranked slab stairs, 576
- Cross bonding, 672
- Crosseted arch, 270
- Cylinder rim night latch, 545
- Damp‐proof courses (DPCs), 233, 394
- in cavity walls, 239
- Damp‐proof membrane (DPM), 163, 166
- Daylight, 411
- Dead lights, 441
- De‐carbonised buildings, 5
- Deep strip foundation, 134
- Delayed action ball valve, 715
- Dense aggregate blocks, 222
- Desicant, 481
- Design of buildings, 1
- Desktop study, 18
- Differential settlement, 111
- Disability glare, 417
- Discharge outgo, 725
- Discomfort glare, 418
- Distributing pipe, 692
- Dog leg stair, 563
- Domestic electrical supply and installations, 662
- Domestic gas installations, 657
- Doors, 499
- Dormer windows, 334
- Double floors, 184
- Double glazing, 479
- Double margin door, 513
- Double roofs, 322
- Double swing doors, 513
- Dowelled joints, 509
- Dowels, 267
- Drainage, 17, 34, 400, 406
- Drained glazing, 486
- Drainpipes, 42
- Drains close to buildings, 55
- Drains under buildings and walls, 54
- Drain testing, 64
- Drinking water storage cistern, 713
- Drips, 369
- Durability of windows, 482
- Earth and earthing systems, 664, 671
- Earth sheltered construction, 306
- Earth‐to‐air heat exchangers, 640
- Earth wall construction, 305
- Eaves, 330
- tiles, 341
- Economic impact, 4
- Edge protection for roofs, 81
- Efflorescence, 220
- Electrical circuits and distribution, 662
- Electric mains
- Electronic communication networks, 680
- End supports, 184, 367
- Energy efficiency, 7
- Energy efficient lighting, 681
- Energy sources, 636
- Energy supply, 619
- English bond, 230
- Entry control systems, 546
- Environmental performance, 5, 7
- Equipotential bonding, 671, 674
- Expanded metal lath (EML), 188, 248, 599
- Expansion vessel, 704
- Exploratory investigation and foundation systems, 27
- Extensive green roofs, 397
- External finishes, 587
- External lighting, 682
- External ramps, 583
- External wall insulation, 249
- External window cills, 490
- Fabric heat loss, 621
- Factory glazing, 484
- Factory made insulated chimneys, 649
- Fairface finishes, 589
- Fan drainage system, 39
- Felt underlay, 357
- Fibre based bitumen felts, 377
- Fibre cement slates, 355
- Filled ground, 103
- Final circuits, 669
- Fine grained cohesive soils, 96
- Finish coat for plaster, 589, 595
- Finishes, 587
- Finishing coats, 612
- Finite energy sources, 638
- Fire doors, 520
- Fire integrity of doors, 521
- Fireplace recesses, 643
- Fire safety, 187, 211, 338, 502, 643
- Firring, 367
- Fixing of slates, 351, 355
- Fixing windows, 452, 456, 464
- Flame retardant paints, 614
- Flat camber arch, 261
- Flat gauged camber arch, 261
- Flat roofs, 365
- drainage, 406
- Flemish bond, 230
- Flexible DPCs, 234
- Flexible pipes bedding, 50
- Flexible sheets and tiles, 195
- Flight, 555
- Flint walling, 263
- Float glass, 473
- Floating floor screed, 175
- Flooding, 21, 34, 102
- Floorboards, 198
- Floors, 159
- Flue pipes and terminals, 661
- Flues, 646, 660
- Flush doors, 519
- panels, 514
- Flushing cisterns, 725
- Foul drainage, 41
- Foundations, 93, 104, 116, 301
- Framed and braced matchboarded doors, 525
- Framed construction, 8
- Frames for doors, 525, 533
- French casement, 518
- Frost heave, 100
- Frost resistance of bricks, 220
- Full bond, 379
- Function of buildings, 2
- Fungicide paints, 613
- Fuses, 668
- Genius loci, 2
- Geometrical stairs, 563
- Glare, 417
- Glass, 473
- Glazed doors, 517, 536
- Glazing, 476
- Glue blocks, 567
- Gluing, wedging and clamping, 508
- Granolithic paving, 193
- Gravel, 97
- Gravity feed cold water supply, 711
- Green roofs, 396
- Grid drainage system, 39
- Ground conditions, 18
- Ground instability, 101
- Ground moisture, 210
- Ground stability, 93, 100
- Ground supported concrete floor slab, 162
- Ground tests, 29
- Gullies, 62
- Gutters, 370, 404
- Gypsum
- Half turn stair, 563
- Handrails, 559, 570
- Hardcore, 162
- Hardware, 488, 540
- Haunched tenon, 507
- Head of openings, in walls, 251, 282
- Headroom, 559
- Health and safety, 12
- Heat activated intumescent seals, 523
- Heat exchanger, 707
- Heat flow through building elements, 685
- Heating, 634
- Heat loss calculations, 621, 627
- Heat resisting paints, 614
- Hempcrete, 309
- Herringbone drainage system, 38
- High‐performance roofing, 378
- Hinged opening lights, 438
- Hinges, 541
- Hip ends, 342
- Hipped ends, 324, 354
- Hollow beam floor units, 180
- Hook and band hinge, 542
- Horizontally pivoted wood window, 464
- Horizontally sliding sash window, 443, 471
- Hot water
- Hydraulic lime, 225
- IG double glazed units, 480
- Igneous rocks, 93
- Immersion heater, 708
- Independent scaffolding, 72
- Independent scaffold towers, 79
- Independent (unbonded) screeds, 175
- Indirect cylinder, 706
- Indoor climate control, 632
- Infill straw bale construction, 305
- Information, 13, 19
- Inherent finishes, 588
- Inorganic insulants, 290
- Inspection chambers, 56, 59
- Inspection during construction, 684
- Instantaneous electric water heaters, 702
- Instantaneous gas water heaters, 702
- Insulation materials (thermal), 391
- Insulation of water pipes, 717
- Intensive green roofs, 397
- Interlocking blocks, 223
- Interlocking single‐lap tiles, 345
- Intermediate water storage cistern, 715
- Internal environment, 619
- Internal finishes, 588
- Internal insulation, of walls, 246
- Internal ramps, 581
- Internal walls, 298
- finish, 248
- Internal window cills, 494
- Intumescent coatings, 614
- In‐use test, 687, 738
- Inverted roof, 381
- Laboratory soil tests, 30
- Ladders, 549
- stair, 572
- Laminated glass, 475
- Landings, 560, 567
- Landslip, 102
- Lap, 339
- Latches, 543
- Lateral restraint, 184, 208, 219, 275
- Lateral stability, of scaffold, 76
- Laying built‐up felt roofing, 378
- Laying clay floor tiles, 196
- Laying drains, 40, 48
- Lead DPCs, 234
- Lead gutter, 370
- Ledged and braced matchboard doors, 525
- Ledged matchboard doors, 525
- Levelling of site, 33
- Lighting circuits, 671
- Lighting outlets, 682
- Lightweight aggregate blocks, 222
- Lime mortar, 224
- Lime plaster, 592
- Lining paper, 615
- Linings for doors, 525, 533
- Linseed oil putty, 476
- Lintels, 252, 269, 282, 284
- Loadbearing construction, 8
- Loadbearing walls, 205
- Local hot water supply, 701
- Location blocks for glazing, 477, 483
- Locks, 543
- Low emissivity glass, 474
- Low level cistern, 714
- Low pitched roofs, 356
- Machine applied gypsum plaster, 595
- Made‐up ground, 103
- Main earthing terminal (MET)
- and integral earth bars, 665
- Mains pressure
- Management of site waste, 31
- Margin, 339
- Masonry paints, 613
- Mastic asphalt
- Matchboarded doors, 524
- Measured survey, 23
- Measuring thermal performance, 684
- Mechanical fixing of insulation, 248
- Mechanical ventilation systems, 636
- Medium density fibreboard (MDF), 606
- Metal casement putty, 477
- Metal cills, 493
- Metal conduit, 677
- Metal door frames, 535
- Metal reinforcement to uPVC windows, 462
- Metal skirting, 606
- Metamorphic rocks, 95
- Methane, 19
- Mineral insulated metal sheathed cable, 676
- Mineral surface dressing, 381
- Minimum pitch to roof, 340
- Mining, 103
- Mitered, welded corners to uPVC windows, 462
- Monolithic reinforced concrete floor, 181
- Mortar, 223
- Mortice
- Multicolour (fleck) paints, 613
- Multi‐fuel stoves, 643
- Multiple risers, 709
- Multi‐point instantaneous water heaters, 702
- Multi‐storey buildings water supply, 708
- Offsite production, 10
- Oils for timber, 614
- One‐and two‐part sealants, 460
- One‐coat gypsum plaster, 595
- On‐site soil tests, 29
- Open balustrade, 568
- Open fire, 641
- Openings in walls, 249, 267, 278
- Open riser stair, 572
- Open string, 567
- Organic insulants, 290
- Overflow warning pipe, 697
- Ownership of site, 18
- Pad foundations, 28, 137
- Paint finish, 610
- Painting and decorating, 609
- Panelled doors, 507, 510
- Pantiles, 345
- Parallel tread stairs, 562
- Parapet walls, 392
- DPC, 394
- Partial bond, 379
- Partial fill, 288
- Party walls, 294, 298
- Passive design, 7
- Patterned papers, 615
- Peat and organic soils, 97
- Pebbledash render, 243
- Pedestrian safety, 70
- Pepper dot diagram, 415
- Percussion boring, 26
- Performance of buildings, 3
- Phase changing materials, 595
- Photographic evidence from boreholes, 27
- Photographic survey, 23
- Photovoltaics, 635, 638
- Pigments, 610
- Pile foundations, 28, 153, 155
- Pipes
- Pipework for gas, 659
- Pitch, 559
- Pitched roofs, 317
- Pivoted opening lights, 441
- Pivoted windows, 464
- Plain textured papers, 615
- Plain tiles, 339
- Planning approvals, 11
- Plaster finishes to timber joists and studs, 597
- Plastering to internal walls, 589
- Plastic cills, 494
- Plastic conduit, 676
- Plastic pipes, 719
- Pointing, 226
- Polycarbonate sheet, 476
- Polyester‐based bitumen felts, 378
- Polygonal walling, 263
- Polymer
- Polythene
- Positioning of windows, 429
- Precast pile and beam foundation, 155
- Precast T‐beam and infill block floor, 179
- Prefabricated trussed rafters, 328
- Prefabrication, 10
- Pressed straw panels, 305
- Pressure governor and filter, 659
- Prestressed concrete lintels, 253
- Primary flow, 707
- Primers, 612
- Privacy, 419, 501
- Processed flat glasses, 475
- Process of construction, 1
- Properties of bricks, 216
- Proprietary scaffold systems, 74
- Protection of electrical circuits, 675
- Protection of stairs on site, 573
- Purlin roof, 322
- Putlog scaffolds, 70
- Putty glazing, 476
- Rack bolt, 546
- Radial circuits, 670
- Radiation, 620
- Radon, 20
- Raft foundations, 28, 145
- Raised panels to doors, 512
- Rammed earth, 309
- Ramps, 549, 581
- Random rubble walling, 262
- Ready mixed
- Rebated jambs, 250
- Reclaimed slates, 350
- Reconstituted stone, 213
- Recycled
- Reduced level dig, 33
- Reflected light, 414
- Regulations, 11
- Reinforced concrete
- Reinforcement
- Rendering to walls, 242
- Renewable energy sources, 638
- Resin based floor finish, 194
- Resistance to the passage of heat, 619, 630
- Reusing existing foundations, 115
- Rib‐deck floor, 183
- Ridge, 353
- Rigid DPCs, 238
- Rigid pipes bedding, 51
- Ring circuit, 670
- Risers, 555, 565
- Rising butt hinge, 542
- Rocks, 93
- Rodding point drain system, 60
- Roofing felt, 340
- Roofs, 313
- Room sealed gas appliances, 661
- Roughcast render, 244
- Rubble walling, 262
- Saddle joint, 265
- Safety glass, 476
- Safety on site, 31, 70
- Sand, 97
- Sanitary
- Sanitation, 691
- Sarking felt, 340
- Scaffold
- Scaffolding, 17, 68
- Screeds, 171, 193
- Sealants, 460
- Sealing cavities, 294
- Sealing window perimeters, 452, 464
- Securing door panels, 510
- Security
- Sedimentary rocks, 95
- Segmental arch, 260
- Semi‐bonded screeds, 174
- Semi‐circular arch, 257
- Semi‐rigid DPCs, 238
- Septic tank, 66
- Service pipe for water, 692
- Services, 18, 22, 31
- Setting blocks for glazing, 477, 483
- Setting out, 33
- Sewage
- Sewers, 63
- Shading devices, 420, 635
- Sheathing and hair felts, 377
- Sheet glass, 475
- Sheet lead, 368
- Sheet metal roof coverings, 356, 367
- Short‐bored pile foundations, 153
- Short circuit, 668
- Showers, 729
- Side‐hung casement, 438
- Single glazing, 476
- Single lap tiles, 345
- Single ply roofing, 378
- Site
- Skirting boards, 604
- Slates, 350
- Sleeper walls, 177
- Sliding doors, 516
- Sliding folding
- Sliding windows, 443, 466
- Sloping sites, 119
- Small bore macerator sanitary system, 726
- Smoke test, 65
- Smooth render, 241
- Soakaways, 37
- Socket outlets, 678
- Soils, 96
- Solar control float glass, 473
- Solar heat gain, 419
- Solar thermal panels, 640
- Solid fuel burning appliances, 641
- Solid slab raft foundation, 147
- Solid wall
- Soluble sulphates, 118
- Solvent, 611
- welded joints, 719
- Soundness test for pipes, 738
- Spacer tubes and bars, 481
- Spandrel, 571
- Special paints, 613
- Splatterdash render, 243
- Spur outlets, 670
- Squared rubble walling, 262
- Stairs, 549
- Stairwell, 563
- Standing seams, 356
- Statutory requirements, 31
- Steel
- Stepped strip foundations, 127
- Stone cills, 490
- Stone slabs, 198
- Stone stairs, 574
- Stone walling, 212
- Storage
- Storage radiators, 635
- Straight flight stair, 562
- Straw and clay building, 305
- Straw bale construction, 299, 304
- Straw walls, 299
- Stretcher bond, 228
- Strings, 565, 577
- Strip foundations, 28, 126
- Structural survey, 23
- Strutting between joists, 185
- Subsoil, 96
- Substrate, 612
- Suction, 597
- Sunlight, 419
- Supply pipe, 692
- Surface coated glass, 473
- Surface finishes, 587
- Surface modified glass, 473
- Surface resistance, 623
- Surface water drainage, 35
- Surveys of sites, 23
- Suspended concrete floor slabs, 170
- Suspended scaffolds, 85
- Suspended timber ground floors, 176
- Sustainable drainage system, 34
- Taps, 720
- T‐beam, 170, 179
- Tee hinge, 542
- Testing pipework, 659
- Testing water system, 693
- Textured render, 243
- Thatched roofs, 339
- Thermal bridging, 284, 389, 428, 626, 629
- Thermal bypass at eaves, 364
- Thermal comfort, 633
- Thermal conductivity, 623
- Thermal imaging, 685
- Thermal insulation
- Thermally insulated foundations, 124
- Thermal performance monitoring and testing, 683
- Thermal resistance, 623
- Thickness of walls, 207
- Thresholds, 281, 530
- Tile
- Tiling to walls, 608
- Tilt‐and‐turn window, 444
- Timber
- Toe scaffold boards, 69
- Tooled finish, 264
- Top‐hung windows, 441
- Topsoil, 96
- Total fill, 289
- Toughened glass, 475
- Transmission of heat, 620
- Traps, 733
- Treads, 555, 565
- Trench supports, 121, 122
- Trial pits, 24
- Tripple glazing, 479
- Trunking, 678
- Trussed‐out scaffolding, 84
- Trussed roof, 327
- Two‐ring arch, 259
- Valleys, 325, 343, 354
- Valves, 720
- Vapour barriers and checks, 249
- Vapour check, 362
- Varnishes for timber, 614
- Vented hot water system, 706
- Ventilated system, 732
- Ventilation, 362, 391, 425, 620, 636, 739
- heat loss, 626
- Vent light, 447
- Verges, 341
- Vertically pivoted steel windows, 465
- Vertically sliding sash window, 443, 466
- Visual inspection, 21
- Vitreous floor tiles, 196
- Volatile organic compounds (VOCs), 611
- Volume change of soils, 100
- Walkover surveys, 21
- Walling materials, 212
- Wallpaper, 615
- Walls, 205
- Warm air heating, 634
- Warm roof, 361
- Washable papers, 616
- Washbasins, 728
- Washing machines, 732
- Waste traps, 732
- Wastewater appliances, 728
- Water‐cement ratio, 116
- Water closet (WC) suite, 722
- Water filled radiators, 634
- Water mains connections, 692
- Waterproofing paints, 613
- Waterproof membranes, 375
- Water repellent paints, 613
- Water supply, 691
- Water supply regulations, 692
- Water test, 64
- Watertightness, 422
- Waxes for timber, 614
- Weather
- Weathering to chimneys, 654
- Wide strip foundation, 130, 135
- Width of foundations, 135
- Winders, 572
- Wind loading to windows, 420
- Window, 411
- Wind turbines, 640
- Wired glass, 475
- Wood
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