Building Regulations

This BRE Trust Report provides practical information on how to achieve higher BREEAM and Code for Sustainable Homes ratings and improve the sustainability of assessed buildings.

This new edition of BR 187 gives methods for calculating adequate space separation between buildings to ensure that fire spread to an adjacent building is sufficiently delayed for the Fire Service to arrive on site and take preventative action.

A building fire is dynamic. A continually changing hostile fire environment influences time relationships that affect fire defenses and risks to people and building functions. The fire and fire defenses in each building interact with different sequences and distinct ways. Risks are characterized by the building s performance.

Governments are placing increasing emphasis on design codes, building regulations, and planning statements to guide the conduct of architects, and to fashion much more of the design process but there has been little research on what architects feel and think about this, and how it is affecting what they do and their daily patterns of work.

Offers a detailed examination of Eurocode 7 Parts 1 and 2 and an overview of the associated European and International standards. This book explains the key Principles and Application Rules of Eurocode 7 in a logical and simple manner. It is suitable for practitioners as well as students working in geotechnical fields.

"Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--Title page verso.

The Party Wall Casebook, now available in paperback, is an essential reference tool for surveyors, architects, engineers and lawyers. It provides a comprehensive analysis of over 80 leading cases which define the courts approach to the Party Wall etc Act 1996 and the related common law rules.