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Informationen zum Autor Jon Douglas is a food writer and avid traveler and eater based in Seattle. He was previously an editor for SmarterTravel, MSN Travel and Bing Travel, and has written for USA Today and Frommers Travel. Klappentext This book provides guidance on building survey work for typical residential, commercial and industrial buildings, with advice on how to diagnose a wide range of defects. It considers both modern and older construction methods, together with new and traditional materials. The particular problems of alteration and renovation work are discussed, with guidance on how to carry out measured surveys. A separate chapter covers survey problems after flood and fire damage, and the legal section takes account of recent developments in case law relating to inspections and surveys of properties. This new edition continues to provide a thorough treatment of all the key issues relating to surveying buildings, dealing with the problems that surveyors are likely to encounter when inspecting buildings. Changes for the new edition include: Examples and references have been updated Evaluation of condition rating systems for domestic and commercial buildings A new section on the home condition reports More information on slate defects Bibliography revised and expanded, to make it more comprehensive Additional appendix showing the home condition report format Zusammenfassung This book provides guidance on building survey work for typical residential! commercial and industrial buildings! with advice on how to diagnose a wide range of defects. It considers both modern and older construction methods! together with new and traditional materials. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to Fourth Edition. Acknowledgements. 1 General Principles and Responsibilities. 1.1 What is a building survey. 1.2 Housing quality initiatives. 1.3 Other housing quality initiatives. 1.4 Housing health and safety rating system (HHSRS). 1.5 Domestic survey implications. 1.6 Non-domestic condition rating system. 1.7 Condition appraisal. 1.8 The purpose of the survey. 1.9 Surveyor's responsibilities. 1.10 Contracts and fees. 2 Procedure and Equipment. 2.1 Basic survey methodology. 2.2 Preliminary operations. 2.3 Property risks. 2.4 Equipment for measured drawing surveys. 2.5 Equipment for surveying buildings and examining defects. 3 Measurement of Existing Buildings. 3.1 Preliminaries. 3.2 Internal measuring. 3.3 Roof space. 3.4 External measuring. 3.5 Levelling. 3.6 Plotting the survey. 4 Surveys of Historic Buildings. 4.1 General considerations. 4.2 Medieval churches. 4.3 Church towers. 4.4 Church bells and fittings. 4.5 Measured drawings. 5 Foundation Failures. 5.1 Introduction. 5.2 Causes of failure. 5.3 Differential movement. 5.4 Inadequate foundations. 5.5 Overloading. 5.6 Unequal settlement. 5.7 Effect of tree roots. 5.8 Shallow foundations. 5.9 Building on sloping sites. 5.10 Building on made up ground. 5.11 Diagnosis. 6 Defective Walls and Partitions Above Ground. 6.1 Type of failure. 6.2 Bulging and leaning walls. 6.3 Overloading. 6.4 Thermal and moisture movements. 6.5 Failure in arches and lintels. 6.6 Defective materials and chemical action. 6.7 Failures in bonding and defects at junctions. 6.8 Frost failure. 6.9 Cavity walls. 6.10 Built-in iron and steel members. 6.11 Tile and slate hanging and weatherboarding. 6.12 Partitions. 6.13 Assessment of cracks. 6.14 Natural stone masonry. 6.15 Defects in stonework...
