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566 Index
Cross wall and box frame construction, 394
Curing concrete, 352
Curtain wall construction, 411, 469
Damage, to buildings, 552
Daylight, 234
Decay, 551
Decking, 209, 229
Deep strip foundations, 86
Defects, 553
Deformation of concrete, 353
Deformed bars, 360
Demolition, 57
Demolition methods, 62
Demolition waste, 63
Diaphragm walls, 158, 248
Differential settlement, 68, 82
Disadvantages, off-site production, 506
Disassembly, 57
Disproportionate collapse, 274
Dragged finish, 390
Drainage and falls (to flat roofs), 230
Driven cast-in-place piles, 107
Driven concrete piles, 104
Driven tubular steel piles, 106
Drop slab floor, 398
Drying shrinkage, 353
Ductility, 279
Dynamic compaction, 132
Edge protection, scaffolding, 33
Edge and valley beams, 264
Elastic deformation, 353
Elasticity, 279
Electrical supply, lifts, 516
Elevators (see Lifts)
Erosion, soils, 75
Escalators, 514, 528
Expansion joints, 265, 526
Exposed aggregate finish, 391
Fabricated support systems, 54
Face fixings, 433
Facings, 426
Factory produced systems, 492
Façade retention, 45, 46
Faience slabwork, 436
Fasteners, 220, 297, 303
Fibre cement profiled cladding, 222
Fibre reinforced concrete, 364
Fill, 74
Fillet weld, 309
Fine aggregates, 348
Finishes, cladding, 445
Fire protection of structural steelwork, 320
Fire safety, 275
Fire spread, internal, 275
Firefighting lifts, 519
Fissures, 76
Fit out, 530
Fixed end support, to reinforcement, 356
Fixing, stone facings, 427
Flat roof frame construction, 198
Flat roof weathering, 230
Flat glulam timber portal frame, 197
Flat slab (plate) floor, 398
Flexibility, 5
Flooding, 75
Floor assembly, raised floor, 533
Floor construction, concrete, 395
Floor construction, steel, 328
Floor panels, 533
Formwork support, 366
Flowdrill jointing, 318
Flying formwork, 380
Formwork and falsework, 366
Foundation design, 78
Foundation types, 86
Foundation width, 87
Foundations, prefabricated, 492
Framed support, 484
Frames and panels, prefabricated, 493
Freyssinet system, 385
Galvanised steel reinforcing bars, 360
Gasket joint, 458
Gifford–Udall–CCL system, 385
Glass fibre reinforced cement cladding panels (GRC), 450
Glass fin support, 483
Glazed wall systems, 468
Glulam, 192, 195
Glulam structural members, 192
Goods lifts, 519
Grading of aggregate, 348
Gravel, 73
Green specifications, 13
Ground instability, 74
Ground stabilisation, 132
Ground stability, 67
Gutters, 220
Gypsum boards, 324
Health and safety, 8
Hexagon headed black bolts, 303
High alumina (aluminous) cement, 346
High-performance structural glazing, 479
Hollow clay block and concrete floor, 334
Hollow rectangular sections, 283, 318
Honeycombing and leaks in concrete, 366
Horizontal formwork, 373
Hybrid and proprietary façade support systems, 54
Hydraulic lifts, 517
Hyperbolic paraboloid shells, 268
In situ cast concrete floors, 395
In situ cast frames, 392
Independent scaffold systems, 30
Independent scaffold towers, 30
Independent scaffolding, 21
Indoor air quality, 554
Industrial, fit out, 531
Infill wall framing, 421