Building Regulations, Codes and Standards (häftad, eng)

Building Regulations, Codes and Standards is a practical guide to the requirements of the building regulations, explaining how to achieve compliance in order to secure safe, sustainable and healthy developments. Together, the book and supplementary digital checklists provide a practical resource for ensuring compliance across all technical areas, showing how requirements of safety, environmental performance and occupant wellbeing can become hand-in-hand considerations to be achieved as a coherent whole.

Features includeoverview of basic definitions and requirements within the building regulations in England, including functional requirements and guidance contained in approved documents for domestic and commercial developmentsupplementary digital checklists that provide a one stop aid to compliance with all technical requirements;coverage of changes to the building regulations introduced in 2022, including changes to Approved Document B as a result of the Hackitt Reviewcomparison of building regulations and advanced codes and standards that are applied in Europe, North America, Australasia and Japan;overview of leading voluntary building rating schemes such as BREEAM New Construction, the Well Building Standard and Home Quality Markblueprint for an internationally applicable regulatory framework as a means of tackling global challenges such as climate change, encompassing all relevant technical areas, design process considerations, and including digital tools that will make it easier to obtain, share, analyse and store data consistently from project to project.

Building Regulations, Codes and Standards is an essential practical reference that is suitable for practitioners across a range of built environment disciplines, including engineers, architects, surveyors, building inspectors, and legal professionals, as well as researchers and students in this area.

Format	Häftad
Omfång	248 sidor
Språk	Engelska
Förlag	Emerald Publishing Limited
Utgivningsdatum	2022-10-04
ISBN	9780727765352