Refurbishment and Upgrading of Buildings provides a detailed insight into a wide range of technical problems met during the refurbishment and upgrading of buildings, suggesting solutions that can be used to overcome them. The book identifies and describes specific refurbishment problems, including the need to comply with relevant statutory requirements where applicable, and explains the methods and technical approaches that can be employed to resolve them. Alternative methods and approaches are explained which enable the practitioner to select that which is most appropriate in the specific circumstances.
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...the conscientious practitioner will find much useful material and information within one set of covers. This is not a specialist, dry, academic book but a reference document that should have a place on the shelves of not only students and practitioners but also conservators, contractors and, especially, thje responsible owner/developer..
–Architectual Technology
...I can recommend the book as good reading for students of surveying and architecture, for developers and for those involve with refurbishment of historic buildings..
–Dr. Jagjit Singh, Director, Environmental Building Solutions Ltd, Journal of Architectural Conservation No. 3, November 2001
–Architectual Technology
...I can recommend the book as good reading for students of surveying and architecture, for developers and for those involve with refurbishment of historic buildings..
–Dr. Jagjit Singh, Director, Environmental Building Solutions Ltd, Journal of Architectural Conservation No. 3, November 2001
About the Author
Christopher Gorse is a Reader and Project Director in the School of the Built Environment at Leeds Metropolitan University, UK. He is also a project management consultant with industrial experience on civil and construction projects. As well as teaching across a wide range of built environment programmes he heads up research teams developing learning materials and investigating sustainability issues in construction.
David Highfield was the Head of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Metropolitan University. A leading expert in the field of refurbishment and renovation he has given many presentations and has published widely on the subject.
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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The provision of modern accommodation through the refurbishment and upgrading of existing old, redundant or obsolete buildings, in preference to constructing new buildings, has increased considerably in recent years, and there are many reasons for this. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metal lathing nailed, hour joists, existing floor construction, floating platform floor, needle underpinning, facade support system, mass concrete underpinning, resinous mortar, slate vents, existing timber floors, existing floor beams, gypsum plaster finish, thermal board, thermal laminates, mineral wool mat, soffit ventilators, existing wall surface, thermal upgrading, independent ceiling, brick external wall, thick nailed, retained facade, refurbishment option, thick screwed, localised repair Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Building Regulations, Building Research Establishment, Approved Document, Gyproc Dri-Wall, Department of the Environment, Good Repair Guide, New Tacfire, University of Bath, Liquid Asphaltic Composition, Courtesy of Rentokil Initial, Great Britain, Gyproc Wallboard, Newton System, Thistle Renovating, Blackwell Science, Death Watch Beetle, Glidevale Universal Rafter Ventilators, Granary Wharf, Isowool General Purpose Roll, Symposium Proceedings, Abbey Pynford, Cathedral Communications Ltd, Colmore Row, Nullifire System, Powell Smith New!
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The provision of modern accommodation through the refurbishment and upgrading of existing old, redundant or obsolete buildings, in preference to constructing new buildings, has increased considerably in recent years, and there are many reasons for this. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
metal lathing nailed, hour joists, existing floor construction, floating platform floor, needle underpinning, facade support system, mass concrete underpinning, resinous mortar, slate vents, existing timber floors, existing floor beams, gypsum plaster finish, thermal board, thermal laminates, mineral wool mat, soffit ventilators, existing wall surface, thermal upgrading, independent ceiling, brick external wall, thick nailed, retained facade, refurbishment option, thick screwed, localised repair Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Building Regulations, Building Research Establishment, Approved Document, Gyproc Dri-Wall, Department of the Environment, Good Repair Guide, New Tacfire, University of Bath, Liquid Asphaltic Composition, Courtesy of Rentokil Initial, Great Britain, Gyproc Wallboard, Newton System, Thistle Renovating, Blackwell Science, Death Watch Beetle, Glidevale Universal Rafter Ventilators, Granary Wharf, Isowool General Purpose Roll, Symposium Proceedings, Abbey Pynford, Cathedral Communications Ltd, Colmore Row, Nullifire System, Powell Smith New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Building Regulations Explained (Builders' Bookshelf Series) by London District Surveyors Association on page 32, page 56, and page 67
- Defects and Deterioration in Buildings: A Practical Guide to the Science and Technology of Material Failure by Barry Richardson on page 56, page 67, and page 105
- Manual to the Building Regulations by Micheal Billington on page 32, page 56, and page 67
- The Building Conservation Directory 1998 by Jonathan M.H. Taylor in Front Matter, page 13, and page 105
- The Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated by Michael J. Billington on page 56, and page 67
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