Duncan Marshall, Derek Worthing, Roger Heath, Nigel Dann

Understanding Housing Defects (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings. For this new edition, many of the chapters have been substantially updated and new photographs have been added. This book is a must have for all those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors, general practice surveyors, architects, estate agents, housing officers and anyone involved in the management and maintenance of property as well as its construction will benefit hugely from this highly informative full-colour text.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136153730
• Artikelnr.: 40315057

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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