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Hemp Lime Construction: A Guide to Building with Hemp Lime Composites
Comprehensive guidance on using hemp lime for housing and low-rise buildings is given for the first time in this book, which is full of practical...
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KNOCK IT DOWN OR DO IT UP?: Sustainable house building: New build and refurbishment in the Sustainable Communities Plan
Assesses the sustainability of new and refurbished housing- New evidence that refurbishment can be more sustainable than demolition and new build...
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Earthships: Building a Zero Carbon Future for Homes
Architecture is undergoing rapid change as the issues of climate change and cutting carbon emissions in buildings become more and more widely...
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Sustainable Checklist for Developments: A common framework for developers and local authorities
One of the biggest challenges facing developers, designers and planners is how to ensure that our towns and cities are developed and regenerated to...
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Repairing Flooded Buildings: An insurance industry guide to investigation and repair of flood damage to housing and small businesses
Flood damage is a complex area, in terms of insurance and building repair issues. This publication has been compiled by the Flood Repairs Forum to...
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Sustainable Refurbishment of Victorian Housing
More than four million houses built between 1840 and 1919 are still in use this BRE Trust report proposes a method of assessing the refurbishment...
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Installing Thermal Insulation: Good site practice
This Good Building Guide gives practical help in the different methods of building insulation into each part of the house (eg ground floors...
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Achieving Airtightness
The aim of this three-part Good Building Guide is to give the best advice on achieving airtightness in new buildings. It is based on data obtained...
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Repair it with effective partnering - Improve efficiency and reduce costs
Maintenance and refurbishment account for just over half the UK construction spend, much of this is spent on responsive maintenance and minor works...
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BR 390: The Green Guide to Housing Specification
Contains over 150 specifications commonly used in housing. Typical wall, roof, floor and other constructions are listed against a simple...
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Putting a price on sustainability
One of the principal barriers to the wider adoption of more sustainable design and construction solutions is the perception that they cost a large...
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Achieving Whole Life Value in Infrastructure and Buildings
This guide has been developed by experts to give you the means of unlocking Whole Life Value (WLV) in infrastructure and building projects. It...
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Rammed Earth: Design and construction guidelines
For most building designers, rammed earth is a novel, innovative and unfamiliar subject. Butfree from additives such as cement - it is an...
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Understanding Dampness
Dampness is a continuing cause of distress to building occupants. It is possibly a source of or a contributor to illness and it encourages...
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Multi-storey Timber Frame Buildings: A design guide
This book will be of interest to all building professionals responsible for the design and construction of multi-storey timber frame buildings...
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Thermal Insulation: Avoiding Risks: A Good Practice Guide
This report represents an update of the BRE guide first produced in 1989 and extensively revised in 1994. The approach of these earlier editions...
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BRE Good Repair Guides: Complete set.
BRE Good Repair Guides are the extensively illustrated series of briefings specifically designed to provide essential information on...
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Cracking in Buildings
Most cracks happen because of small movements within and between the material and elements used in the construction of buildings, usually at points...
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