Building Adaptation

As existing buildings age, nearly half of all construction activity in Britain is related to maintenance, refurbishment and conversions. Building adaptation is an activity that continues to make a significant contribution to the workload of the construction industry. Given its importance to sustainable construction, the proportion of adaptation works in relation to new build is likely to remain substantial for the foreseeable future, especially in the developed parts of the world.Building Adaptation, Second Edition is intended as a primer on the physical changes that can affect older properties. It demonstrates the general principles, techniques, and processes needed when existing buildings must undergo alteration, conversion, extension, improvement, or refurbishment.The publication of the first edition of Building Adaptation reflected the upsurge in refurbishment work. The book quickly established itself as one of the core texts for building surveying students and others on undergraduate and postgraduate built environment courses.This new edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to all the key issues relating to the adaptation of buildings. It deals with any work to a building over and above maintenance to change its capacity, function or performance.

Contents

Introduction

Scottish Civic Trust, Pentagon Renovation Program, adaptive reuse

Feasibility

asbestos, English Heritage, thermal insulation

Principles of converting buildings

listed building, English Heritage, granny flat

Adaptive reuses

Listed Buildings, smoke detectors, safety engineering

Lateral extensions

Haverstock, lateral extension, rising dampness

Vertical extensions

light-well, purlins, portal frame

Structural alterations

carbon fibre, dry rot, wet rot

Principles of refurbishment

indoor air quality, hypothermia, global warming

British housing stock

Housing Scotland, ODPM, Welsh Assembly

Indoor air quality

house dust mite, building envelope, asthma

Condensation and other dampness control

rising dampness, fungicidal, Massari

General housing improvements

radon, radium, flue

Nonresidential refurbishment

electrochromic, window films, graffiti

Summary

double glazing, polyurethane, Titanium

Upgrading floors

anhydrite, sound insulation, superlux

Upgrading walls

mineral wool, thermal bridging, insulation

Upgrading roofs

Tyvek, mastic asphalt, Mineral fibre

Modular construction

induction loop, Disability Discrimination Act, artificial limbs

Summary

embodied energy, windcatcher, condensing boilers

Implementation

Listed Buildings, bills of quantities, Building Act 1984

Appendices

Lintels, Lighting adequate, prams

Typical notes and specification column in a drawing for a small

dwangs, mechanical ventilation, Expansion joints

Typical specimen maintenance schedules

Listed building, Busytown, kWh kWh kWh

Office scorer refurbishmentredevelopment evaluation form

MTBF, microclimate, Iselin and Lemer

Bibliography

Carbon Trust, Thermal insulation,

Condensing boilers

Index