This bundle offers the ideal combination for any student surveyor or professional wanting an easy to use desk reference. Perfect for those on Construction, Real Estate, Architecture and Built Environment courses. The fifth edition of The Construction of Houses is aimed specifically at those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of building construction as part of a wider sphere of professional activity. This new edition has a revised text and hundreds of improved graphics, new illustrations and photos printed in full colour for the first time. New chapters on sustainability, ventilation and steel frame builds have ensured that this new edition is fully up to date with todays methods.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.
The Construction of Houses
1. Introduction
2. Sustainability
3. Foundations
4. External Masonry
Loadbearing Walls
5. Ground Floors
6. Upper Floors
7. Roof Structure
8. Roof
Coverings
9. Partitions
10. Plastering and Dry Lining
11. Decoration
12.
External Rendering
13. System Housing Timber Frame
14. System Housing
Concrete and Steel
15. Windows, Doors and Stairs
16. Thermal Insulation and
Condensation
17. Cold Water Supply
18. Hot Water Supply
19. Space Heating
20.
Ventilation
21. Drainage
22. Electrical Installations
Understanding Housing Defects
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
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).
