Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings

Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings 

Melvyn Green

2011 | 266 pages | PDF | 3,20 MB

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Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings

Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings

Melvyn Green, 

Wiley | | 2011 | 266 pages | PDF | 3,20 MB

Learn to apply the International Building Code and International Existing Building Code to historic buildings

Written for architects, engineers, preservation, and code enforcement professionals, this is the only comprehensive book that examines how the International Building Code (IBC) and the International Existing Building Code (IEBC) can be applied to historic and existing buildings. For ease of use, the book is organized to parallel the structure of the IEBC itself, and the approach is cumulative, with the objective of promoting an understanding of the art of applying building regulations to the environment of existing buildings.

Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings begins with a discussion of the history of building regulations in the United States and the events and conditions that created them. 

Next, it provides thorough coverage of:

• The rationale behind code provisions and historic preservation principles
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• Major building code requirements: occupancy and use, types of construction, and heights and areas
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• Building performance characteristics: fire and life safety, structural safety, health and hygiene, accident prevention, accessibility, and energy conservation
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• Case study projects that reinforce the material covered

Additionally, the book includes building analysis worksheets—both blank and filled-in versions with examples—that illustrate how to develop a code approach for an individual building. If you are a professional at any level who is working on creating a plan that meets the intent of the code for historic or existing buildings, Building Codes for Existing and Historic Buildings gives you everything that you need to succeed. 

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Building Facade Maintenance, Repair, and Inspection (ASTM Special Technical Publication)

Building Facade Maintenance, Repair, and Inspection (ASTM Special Technical Publication)

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Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avoidance

Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avoidance

Spon Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0419142703 | PDF | 199 pages | English | 6.3MB

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Repairing Flooded Buildings: An Insurance Industry Guide to Investigation and Repair (EP 69)

Building Research Establishment, 

"Repairing Flooded Buildings: An Insurance Industry Guide to Investigation and Repair (EP 69)"
Publisher: IHS - BRE Press | 2010 | ISBN: 1860819036 | PDF | 108 pages | 1.2 MB

This publication aims to rationalise and simplify the issues involved, with the aim of improving service to the building owner from the insurance, loss adjusting, surveying and contracting sectors.

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Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avoidance, 2nd Edition

Building Failures: Diagnosis and Avoidance, 2nd Edition


by W.H. Ransom .
Published by Spon Press | Publication date : December 1987 | ISBN: 0419142703 | PDF Format, 199 pages | English | 6.3MB

In recent years building failures and the resulting lawsuits and awards for damages have frequently been in the news. The biggest headlines may have been reserved for structural failures and complete collapses. But we should not forget the less newsworthy failures such as leaky roofs, damp walls, dropped foundations and rotted timber.

This book gives practical guidance on the prevention of failure by describing the nature and cause of the most common defects in buildings, and then shows how they should be avoided in design and construction.

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