Understanding Housing Defects - Softcover

Marshall, Duncan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0728202956 ISBN 13: 9780728202955

Publisher: Estates Gazette Ltd, 1998

Synopsis

This third edition of Understanding Housing Defects provides a concise, coherent and comprehensive introduction to the causes, investigation and diagnosis of defects in domestic buildings.

Each chapter covers a specific building element and includes a brief introduction setting out construction principles and the evolution of current practice. The chapters then go on to look at the identification, cause and diagnosis of common (and sometimes not so common) defects. The text has been revised and extended with new sections on boundary walls, chimneys and basements. The Services chapter has been replaced with three new, more substantial chapters on heating and plumbing, electrical installations and drainage.

This book is a must have for all those students and practitioners who require a broad understanding of housing defects. Building surveyors, architects, estate agents and anyone involved in property, construction and housing will benefit hugely from this highly informative full colour text.

About this title

About the Author

Duncan Marshall was formerly a senior lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK

Derek Worthing was formerly a principal lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK

Roger Heath is a lecturer at the University of the West of England, UK

Edition details

• Publisher: Estates Gazette Ltd
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0728202956
• ISBN 13: 9780728202955
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 365