Building Research Establishment
Building Research Establishment
Good Repair Guidescover the bread and butter basic information which should be read by all building surveyors even if they think they already know it.
Two of them this time No. 15 on Repairing Chimneys and Parapets and No. 16 on Recovering Pitched Roofs. Good essential reading if it were not for the irritating habit of BRE of spelling sulphate "sulfate".
Five more information papers, No. 7 on the determination of thickness of external cladding panels, No. 8 on kiln drying of Sitka spruce and No. 9 on the use of EPS permanent formwork for concrete walls. No. 10 deals with resistance of masonry paints to microbial attack and No. 11 on assessing carbonation depth in ageing high alumina cement concrete.
The bibles of building two new Digests, No. 429 (replacing 296) on Natural durability and resistance to preservative treatments of timbers and No. 430, Plastics for external glaziers.
Digest No. 330, on Alkali-silicon reaction in concrete (in four parts) has been updated (from 1982)and republished.
All these are available from CRC Ltd, 151 Rosebery Avenue, London EC1R 4QX.
BRE have produced a series on designing buildings for daylighting and innovative daylighting systems,details from CRC as above.
