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GBE Defects (Navigation) G#733 N#755

By 14 May 2015January 18th, 2024Code, Encyclopaedia, GBE Defects

Index:


State of the Industry (Opinion)


Causes


Survey Inspections Analysis


Design

  • Conductivity, Convection, Radiation, Reflection (Defects) G#14166
  • Thermal Insulation: Which Where? (Defects) G#14166
  • GBE Loft Insulation (Defects) G#14166
  • Loft Insulation (Defects) G#14166
  • Radical Brickwork

Specification


Construction, Installation & Application


Maintenance & Repair


Materials


 Precipitation:

  • Fog
  • Frost
  • Mist
  • Rain
  • Sleet
  • Smog
  • Snow N#750
  • Wind driven rain

Water:

  • Bounce
  • Capillary Action
  • Damp Proof Course (DPC)
  • Damp Proof Membrane (DPM)
  • Exposure
  • Frost action
  • Flood lines
  • Flood plain
  • Gravity
  • Hydrophobic
  • Hydrophilic
  • Moisture Transport
  • Moisture Permeability
  • Sacrificial Construction
  • Splash zone
  • Surface tension
  • Water saturation
  • Water tolerance
  • Weather Penetration
  • Weather Protection N#750
  • Wet trades and wet Construction
  • Wet rooms
  • PVC Skirting/Coving/Capping & Adhesive failures N#1171
  • Wick Effect
  • Wind Driven rain

Water vapour

  • Hygroscopicity
  • Moisture permeability
  • Moisture Vapour Saturation
  • Surface Condensation
  • Interstitial condensation
  • Spore reactivation

Unhealthy:

  • Allergy
  • Fitted carpets
  • Fuel Poverty
  • Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) N#1135
  • Moth deterrents
  • Mould
  • Overheating
  • Phthalates in PVC
  • Polymer Migration
  • Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI)
  • Recirculated ‘Recycled’ Air
  • Sick Building Syndrome
  • Thermal discomfort
  • Toxicity
  • Toxic mould
  • Upper limb disorders (ULD)
  • Wrong heating systems

Competent:


Biodiversity:

  • Air exfiltration
  • Air infiltration
  • Bettle infestation
  • Damp penetration
  • Dry Rot
  • Habitation
  • Infestation
  • Invertebrates
  • Invasive Species N#1555
  • Mice & Rats
  • Mould
  • Noisy Neighbours
  • Orientation
  • Parasites
  • Rot
  • Termite infestation
  • Toxic Mound
  • Vermin
  • Water penetration
  • Wet Rot

Waste of Resources:

  • Energy From Waste
  • Material efficiency and waste
  • Trashed (Film)
  • Waste management in use
  • Waste Hierarchies
  • Other waste hierarchies
  • Construction Demolition & Excavation Waste: Facts & Figures

© GBE GBC GRC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ****
31st January 2013 – 18th January 2024

About:


Ken Dixon ran some conference on Building Defects at the RIBA and filled the Jarvis Hall plus the annex 3 times over but then ran out of subjects.  That series could have ran for much longer, because we all like to learn from other’s mistakes.

‘there but for the grace of god, goes I’

The Architects Journal ran a successful series on building defects.

The RIBA Journal used to carry a series of Liability Alerts by Niel Pepperel MD of RIBA Indemnity Research Ltd. so we could avoid problems.

WREN PII provider runs its WREN Forum where ‘grey hairs’ from its insured practices meet up to discuss problems and their avoidance.

TRADA employs a man full time just to deal with Architects calling about timber weatherboarding defects.


GBE Defects will carry on this tradition and add to the debate.

GBE Code is intended to provide guidance on ‘Healthy Environmental Resourceful, Appropriate, Competent, Effective, Construction’ which highlights the right way to do things and GBE Defects will try to analyse it when it goes wrong.

If you have building defects and are willing to share, we would like to analyse them and publish them here.


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© GBE GBC GRC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ****
2nd February 2013 – 18th January 2024

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© GBE GBC GRC GBL NGS ASWS Brian Murphy aka BrianSpecMan ****
31st January 2013 – 18th January 2024

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