Download or read book Causes of Subsidence Damage in Low rise Residential Properties written by Kevin Roper and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Has Your House Got Cracks written by Tim Freeman and published by Thomas Telford. This book was released on 2002 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing practical guidance for homeowners whose properties have been affected by subsidence, or heave, or who are concerned by the potential risk of damage, this second edition has been expanded to include sections on other types of subsidence and causes of damage that are unrelated to foundation movement.
Download or read book Subsidence of Low Rise Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Assessment of Damage in Low rise Buildings written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Digest discusses the assessment and classification of visible damage resulting from structural distortion. The assessment is based on a description of work considered necessary to repair the building fabric; classification into six categories is recommended, taking into account the nature, location and type of damage. The most common causes of damage are discussed. It is concluded that for damage of Category 2 or less cracking may result from a combination of causes which are difficult to identify and the cost and effort involved in carrying out an identification would be disproportionate to the scale of the damage, except for circumstances where the movement is likely to be progressive. It is rare for damage to progress beyond Category 2 and when it does ground movement is usually the cause. The various causes of ground movement giving rise to damage are described briefly and emphasis is given to the identification of conditions where the movement might lead to progressive deterioration. The Digest will assist building professionals, property valuers and insurance advisors both in putting building damage into its true perspective and in determining necessary action, either in the form of seeking expert advice or in recommending simple repairs.
Download or read book Subsidence Damage to Domestic Buildings written by R. Driscoll and published by Building Research Establishment. This book was released on 2000 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the information available on subsidence, highlighting advice when dealing with subsidence, and providing best practice in design of new buildings. The publication provides a comprehensive examination of subsidence damage to domestic buildings.
Download or read book Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology written by Les Goring and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an ideal reference book for students (undergraduates and postgraduates) studying Building Surveying, Quantity Surveying, or Architecture, etc. It should also be of use to the Construction-related legal profession, Property Managers and Letting Agents. Builders (and homeowners, interested in identifying faults in their property), should also benefit from this book. Residential Surveying Matters and Building Terminology covers a wide range of new and old building terms, techniques, technologies and materials, but much more extensively than the average dictionary. The alphabetical format makes it easy to check up on terms and subject-areas quickly – and the detailed coverage (including helpful drawings by the author) provides clear guidance to the reader. This book covers a multitude of subject-areas, including condensation problems, cellar rot, wet rot and dry rot, thermal cracks, settlement cracks, metal wall-tie corrosion-and-expansion cracks, subsidence cracks, roof-spread recognition, bulging- and/or leaning-walls, etc. Further subject areas include inspecting and analysing residential building-structures, both internally and externally; appraising underground drainage systems; and personal commentary on survey report writing.
Download or read book Mitigating Losses from Land Subsidence in the United States written by Panel on Land Subsidence and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Urban Tree written by Duncan Goodwin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a growing evidence base that documents the social, environmental and economic benefits that urban trees can deliver. Trees are, however, under threat today as never before due to competition for space imposed by development, other hard infrastructures, increased pressure on the availability of financial provision from local authorities and a highly cautious approach to risk management in a modern litigious society. It is, therefore, incumbent upon all of us in construction and urban design disciplines to pursue a set of goals that not only preserve existing trees where we can, but also ensure that new plantings are appropriately specified and detailed to enable their successful establishment and growth to productive maturity. Aimed at developers, urban planners, urban designers, landscape architects and arboriculturists, this book takes a candid look at the benefits that trees provide alongside the threats that are eliminating them from our towns and cities. It takes a simple, applied approach that explores a combination of science and practical experience to help ensure a pragmatic and reasoned approach to decision-making in terms of tree selection, specification, placement and establishment. In this way, trees can successfully be incorporated within our urban landscapes, so that we can continue to reap the benefits they provide.
Download or read book Subsidence Damage to Domestic Buildings written by Richard Driscoll and published by Bre Press. This book was released on 2010-11-04 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides authoritative guidance to best practice in the technical and engineering aspects of subsidence damage to domestic buildings, covering investigation, diagnosis, repair, prevention and mitigation of building cracking and deformation.
Download or read book Ground Improvement Case Histories written by Buddhima Indraratna and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international group of experts, Ground Improvement Case Histories: Chemical, Electrokinetic, Thermal and Bioengineering Methods provides over 700 pages of case-histories collected from all over the world. Each case-history provides an overview of the specific technology followed by applications, and in some cases, comprehensive back analysis through numerical modelling is discussed. The book includes methods for employing bacterial and biological treatment, and native vegetation for stabilizing problematic soils. Specific case-histories included in the book are: Effect of Drainage and Grouting for the World Longest Seikan Undersea Tunnel Construction, Cement/lime Mixing Ground Improvement for Road Construction on Soft Ground, Use of Jet Grouting in Deep Excavations, and Stabilization of Reactive Sulphide Mine Tailings using Water Cover Technology. Provides recent case histories using chemical and bio-engineering methods by world-renowned engineering experts Includes over 200 illustrations and 150 equations from relevant topics, including state-of-the-art chemical and bioengineering methods Presents comprehensive analysis methods using numerical modelling methods Case histories include the "Effect of Drainage and Grouting on the World's Longest Seikan Undersea Tunnel Construction" and "Cement/Lime Mixing Ground Improvement for Road Construction on Soft Ground"
Download or read book Index to Theses with Abstracts Accepted for Higher Degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland and the Council for National Academic Awards written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theses on any subject submitted by the academic libraries in the UK and Ireland.
Download or read book The Engineering Geology and Hydrology of Karst Terrains written by Barry F. Beck and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 527 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engineers from around the world recount in this volume their successes and failures in attempting to deal with unique and quixotic landscapes.
Download or read book Subsidence of Low rise Buildings written by SETO Limited and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sea Level Rise and Coastal Subsidence Causes Consequences and Strategies written by J.D. Milliman and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsidence of low-lying coastal areas, which can have a far greater local effect than the eustatic rise of the sea. The combined sea-level rise and land subsidence will almost certainly make the greatest impact on coastal societies in the densely populated regions of southern Asia, but its effects will be felt globally. This volume explores the concepts of sea-level rise and coastal subsidence, both natural and anthropogenically accelerated, in the form of a series of case studies in such diverse locations as Bangkok, Bangladesh, Venice, and the Niger and Mississippi deltas, as well as a discussion of the economic, engineering and policy responses that must be considered if the effects of local sea-level rise are to be mitigated.
Download or read book A Problem Definition Study of Subsidence Caused by Geopressured Geothermal Resource Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tilt of Low rise Buildings with Particular Reference to Progressive Foundation Movement written by Hilary Skinner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Digest provides guidance on the assessment of the significance of tilt of low-rise buildings resulting from foundation movement. It should assist building professionals, property valuers and insurance advisors in assessing the significance of tilt and the need for expert advice. The issues of acceptability and tolerability of tilt are particularly acute in low-rise housing. The shortage of good building land and the consequent necessity of siting new housing developments on more marginal sites gives added importance to the subject. This Digest is complementary to Digest 251 which deals with structural distortion and cracking caused by foundation movement.
Download or read book Forensic Engineering written by Stephen E. Petty and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-09-23 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Serving as a comprehensive resource that builds a bridge between engineering disciplines and the building sciences and trades, Forensic Engineering: Damage Assessments for Residential and Commercial Structures, Second Edition provides an extensive look into the world of forensic engineering. Focusing on investigations associated with insurance industry claims, the book describes methodologies for performing insurance-related investigations, including the causation and origin of damage to residential and commercial structures and/or unhealthy interior environments and adverse effects on the occupants of these structures. Edited by an industry expert with more than 40 years of experience and contributors with more than 100 years of experience in the field, the book takes the technical aspects of engineering and scientific principles and applies them to real-world issues in a nontechnical manner. The book provides readers with the experiences, investigation methodologies, and investigation protocols used in and derived from thousands of forensic engineering investigations. FEATURES Covers 24 topics in forensic engineering based on thousands of actual field investigations Provides a proven methodology based on engineering and scientific principles, experience, and common sense to determine the causes of forensic failures pertaining to residential and commercial properties Includes references to many codes, standards, technical literature, and industry best practices Illustrates detailed and informative examples utilizing color photographs and figures for industry best practices as well as to identify improper installations Combines information from a multitude of resources into one succinct, easy-to-use guide This book details proven methodologies based on over 10,000 field investigations in which the related strategies can be practically applied and appreciated by both professionals and laymen alike.
