...Stephen L. Garvin Many elderly people and people with disabilities, who form a significant part of society, are unable to use doors and windows due to the physical effort required. Research at BRE over the past two years has produced a guide for the specification of automatic controls for doors...

...Charles Brooking; Julie Wakefield Provides information about the Brooking Collection of architectural details which is open for public consultation at the Dartford Campus of the University of Greenwich. The Collection contains original examples of windows, doors, fanlights, staircases, firegrates...

... occur when sound transmission between offices is dominated by transmission via a sound path or paths other than through the partitioning itself. Figure 5 shows some of the potential sound leakage (flanking) paths that can exist. These are discussed below. Doors A door in a partition will always...