Building in the 21st century / Robert Cooke.

By:

Cooke, Robert

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Pub., 2007.Description: xvii, 485 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

1405156554 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781405156554 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Other title:

Building in the twenty first century

Subject(s):

Building -- Textbooks

DDC classification:

690 COO

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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book has been written specifically to provide a text for the latest BTEC/EdEXCEL construction technician's course, and it will also be of interest to students taking GCSE in Construction and as an introductory volume for HNC/D students of construction.

The BTEC course units have recently been revised with a greater slant towards sustainability and environmental issues.

This new book will:

- cover the new BTEC syllabus
- be highly illustrated with modern diagrams and plenty of photographs
- introduce basic fundamentals of construction and the environment
- integrate all aspects of one topic to provide better understanding of the subject.

Includes index.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Preface
Acknowledgements
1 Surveying processes
Part A
1.1 The role of the surveyor
1.2 Land surveying
The survey
Location
Reasons for land surveys
Equipment
Health and safety issues
1.3 Land survey methods
Optical method
Lineal method
1.4 Measuring irregular edges
Method
Booking
1.5 Drawing office procedure
1.6 Measuring over sloping distances
Method for using an Abney level
Method of measuring plan length
Part B
1.7 Levelling surveys
Levelling equipment
Setting up an optical level
Adjusting for parallax
Taking readings
Flying levels (line levelling
1.8 Height of collimation method
HOC method
Booking method
1.9 Rise and fall method
Booking method
Which method is better -- HOC or R&F?
1.10 Change points
CP method
Booking method
1.11 Inverse levels
Method
Booking method
HOC method
R&F method
1.12 Invert levels
1.13 Health and safety
1.14 Levelling instruments
Optical and electronic levels
Other levelling devices
2 Topographical surveys
2.1 Measuring angles
2.2 Setting up a theodolite or total station
2.3 Measuring vertical angles
Method
2.4 Measuring heights using angles
Method
Calculations
Example
2.5 Measuring horizontal angles
Method
2.6 Whole circle bearings
Method
Drawing office work
2.7 Coordinates
Polar coordinates
Rectangular coordinates
2.8 Setting out
Setting out a small building
Setting out drainage runs
2.9 Traversing
Open traverse
Closed traverse
3 Building surveying
Part A
3.1 Types of building survey
3.2 Valuation surveys
3.3 Conditions surveys
3.4 Dilapidations surveys
3.5 Maintenance surveys
3.6 Approach to carrying out a conditions survey
Health and safety
Equipment
3.7 Conditions survey procedure
Checklist
Roofs
Protrusions
Guttering
Fascias and soffits
Windows
Glazing -- and identifying rot in painted timber
Cracks in masonry
Spandrel panels
Doors, door frames, etc
Ceilings
Elevations
3.8 Services and heating systems
Part B
3.9 Structural surveys
Equipment
3.10 The actual structural survey
3.11 Change in moisture content
3.12 Lateral support has been removed
3.13 Party Wall Act survey
3.14 Measured survey
3.15 Approach to carrying out a measured survey
The actual measured survey
4 Foundations
4.1 Introduction
Foundation function
Considerations
4.2 Foundation types
Spread footings
Strip foundations
Simple raft
Pad
Short bore pile and beam
4.3 Foundations on an incline
4.4 How to calculate loadings
Example
Roof loading
Wall loading
Floor loading
Natural loadings
4.5 Using spreadsheets to calculate loadings
Foundation loading
4.6 Foundation design theory
Example 1
Example 2
4.7 Ground surveys
Trial pit tests
Borehole tests
4.8 Desk top surveys
4.9 Foundation materials
Concrete mixes
Aggregates
Portland cement
Blastfurnace slag cement
Commercial concrete manufacture
Concrete for foundations
Testing fresh concrete and aggregates
Useful British Standards and Eurocodes
4.1 0 Health and safety relating to concrete and cement
Personal protective equipment
4.1 1 Problems with foundations
Tree root problems
Chemical attack
4.1 2 Soils and substrata
Rock
Gravel and sand
Shifting sand
Plate tectonics
Effects of climate
4.1 3 Safe loads in subsoils
5 Walls and openings
5.1 Wall types
Traditional construction
5.2 Wall design
Wall functions
Materials used
Designs and stability
5.3 Openings
Lintels
Windows
5.4 Sound insulation
5.5 Thermal insulation
5.6 How to calculate U values
5.7 Fire insulation
6 Floors and stairs
6.1 Floors
6.2 Solid floors
6.3 Suspended ground floors
Block and beam
6.4 Suspended timber ground floors
6.5 Suspended timber upper floors
6.6 Detailing for fire resistance
6.7 Stairs
7 Roofs
7.1 Roofs
Functions
Materials used
7.2 Pitched roofs
7.3 Ventilation
7.4 Flat roofs
Construction details
7.5 Roof terminology
Cut roofs
Trussed roofs (new type
Cold deck flat roofs
Warm deck flat roofs
Inverted flat roofs
7.6 Stability
7.7 Fire insulation
8 Construction techniques
8.1 Traditional masonry
8.2 Cross wall construction
8.3 Modern timber frame
Modern panel type
Condensation
Finishing timber frame buildings
Fire precautions
Stick type
Infestation
Historical perspective
8.4 Steel frame
Advantages of steel framed structures
Disadvantages of steel framed structures
8.5 Skeletal frame cast in-situ reinforced concrete
Fire resistance
Cast in-situ beams
Pouring concrete
8.6 Skeletal frame precast reinforced concrete
Assembly
Low rise commercial buildings
8.7 Portal frame
Cladding
8.8 Stairs
8.9 Walling
Masonry wall to column detail
Health and safety issues with cast in-situ concrete
Toughened glass assemblies
Metal and glass curtain walling
Metal cladding
8.10 Laminated timber skeletal framed building
9 Site issues
9.1 Site planning
Pre-contract site planning
Post-contract site planning
9.2 Health and safety
9.3 Site security
Security
Good neighbour policy
9.4 Site plant
9.5 Temporary water removal
10 Construction and the environment
10.1 Natural environment
Soil
Fresh water
Air
10.2 What causes pollution?
10.3 What is thought to cause global warming?
10.4 Ozone and other greenhouse gases
10.5 The Kyotol Protocol
10.6 Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs
10.7 Pollution from fossil fuels
10.8 Green belt
10.9 Air pollution
Air pollution today
Local air pollution
Regional air pollution
What makes acid rain?
Global air pollution
10.10 Environmental audit
Running costs
Waste disposal
End of life
What effect will the project have on the natural environment?
10.11 Is timber frame so environmentally friendly?
What is sustainable construction?
11 Energy
11.1 The science of energy
11.2 Energy calculations
11.3 How is energy converted into electricity?
Wind power
Wave power and sea pressures
Tidal power
Hydroelectric power
Water current power
Solar power
Evacuated tubes
Photovoltaic cells
Geothermal energy
Fossil fuel combustion
Coal
Oil
Natural gas -- including carbon sequestration
Nuclear
Incineration and waste
Biomass as fuel
Hydrogen as fuel
12 Utilities
12.1 Introduction
12.2 Water
Why is so much water lost to leakage from the water mains?
Water falls as rain so why should we pay for it?
Desalination plants
Potable water supply
Plumbing -- hot and cold water supply
12.3 Gas
Natural gas supply
12.4 Electricity
Mains electricity supply
Domestic supply
12.5 Sewage
Domestic sewers
12.6 Drainage
12.7 Telecommunications
12.8 Street identification
Index

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Robert Cooke is currently a lecturer at Barking College in the School of the Built Environment teaching construction students from GCSE through to BTEC/Edexcel Higher National Certificate. He has over 35 years experience in the construction industry, starting off as an apprenticed shopfitter/carpenter/joiner both on the bench and as a site fixer, and later becoming a setter out in the drawing office. To gain wider experience he became a site carpenter for a local builder in the days when virtually everything was done by hand.

Making a career change he trained as a surveyor and technical representative for a timber preservative and damp-proofing company and then spent many years as a technical and architectural representative for an international glass and glazing company, working mainly in the commercial sector. For almost a decade before teaching full time he changed direction to become a technical and architectural representative for a national Aircrete manufacturer. He has plenty of experience attending site, working on design details with architects, engineers, quantity surveyors and contractors.

After spending many years teaching part time at the College of Technology at Southend-on-Sea, he took up a full time lecturing post at Barking College in the late 1980s. He has a particular interest in environmental and sustainable development issues. Building is not just a career for him it is an obsession according to his wife, Ann. Even when on holiday he is always going off to look at the local building sites.