Duncan Marshall, BSc, MCIOB, MIMBM was a Chartered Builder and Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. Derek Worthing, BSc, MPhil, MRICS is a Chartered Building Surveyor and was formerly a Principal Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. He now works as a consultant and a Visiting Lecturer. He is also a Visiting Professor at Uppsala University in Sweden. Roger Heath, FRICS, FFB is a Chartered Building Surveyor and was formerly a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK. He now works as a Visiting Lecturer. Nigel Dann, BSc, MSc, MIOC, ICIOB was a Senior Lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK, and now works as a consultant and Visiting Lecturer in the UK, France and Belgium (KU Leuven).
1. Understanding Defects - an introduction 2. Building history 3. Building
Movement - Foundations 4. Building Movement -Walls 5. The investigation of
structural defects 6. External Walls -Brickwork and Stonework 7. Ground
Floors 8. Upper Floors 9. Pitched Roofs 10. Flat Roofs 11. External
Rendering 12. Plastering and Plasterboard 13. Internal walls and partitions
14. External joinery 15. Timber Pests 16. Dampness 17. System Building 18.
Environmental and health- related building problems 19. Water and Heating
20. Drainage 21. Electrical Installations
