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Damage/deterioration/corrosion

Arboricultural Association

Arboricultural Practice Notes 1 Driveways close to trees, 1996
Development of a site, including construction of access routes, driveways and parking areas can result in damage to nearby tree roots. This report describes construction techniques which may avoid or lessen root damage.

Architects' Journal

Architects' Journal Construction Risks and Remedies Timber decay: Part 1 the risks. AJ 8.10.86, 1986
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Architects' Journal Construction Risks and Remedies Timber decay: Part 2 the remedies. AJ 15.10.86, 1986
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Building Research Establishment

Good Repair Guide 12 Wood rot: assessing and treating decay, 1997
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Good Repair Guide 13 Part 1 Wood-boring insect attack: identifying and assessing damage, 1998
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Good Repair Guide 13 Part 2 Wood-boring insect attack: treating damage, 1998
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Digest 298 Low-rise building foundations: the influence of trees in clay soils, 1999
Soil shrinkage caused by the removal of water by trees and other vegetation can result in foundation subsidence. Soil swelling caused by the recovery of moisture following tree removal can result in foundation heave. This digest gives simple design guidance on minimising these effects in clay soils and points to some dangers in current foundation practice.
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Report 311 Biological durability of timber in ground contact, 1996
When timber becomes wet it is liable to attack by wood-destroying fungi which eventually can cause the wood to rot. This condition arises when timber is used in damp or wet environments, such as in contact with the ground, or is exposed to rainfall or condensation. This report is concerned with the on-going, long-term BRE ground contact field trials where stakes of different wood species are half-buried in the ground. To simplify the terminology in this report, 'biological natural durability' will be used to refer to the resistance of a timber to attack by wood-destroying fungi in ground contact. The report presents and reviews the results and considers different ways of analysing the data for use in specifying timber performance.
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Digest 418 Bird, bee and plant damage to buildings, 1996
Bird fouling is unsightly and the acids and soluble salts it contains can stain and erode masonry surfaces. Masonry bees burrow through soft mortar joints and soft bricks and stones. Plants, such as ivy, can cause considerable damage to stonework as their roots grow and expand in the joints and crevices, pushing stones apart and disrupting the wall. Creepers and other climbing plants will inhibit inspection and maintenance of a wall. This digest provides guidance on the prevention of damage to external surfaces caused by birds, 'masonry bees', climbing plants and creepers, and biological growths. It describes how these animals and plants can cause deterioration in surfaces and mortar joints, and suggests methods of treating affected surfaces.
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Energy Institute

Code of practice for the investigation and mitigation of possible petroleum based land contamination, 1993
Describes the recommended procedure to investigate land for possible petroleum-based contamination and subsequent procedures to assess its relevance and any remedial measures deemed necessary. Provides practical working guidelines identifying the stages of a site investigation, assessment of risks to health and the environment and the establishment where necessary of appropriate treatment criteria. In addition reference is made to responsible authorities who should be consulted during the investigation; these authorities are named for England and Wales.
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English Heritage

Graffiti on historic buildings and monuments - methods of removal and prevention, 1999
This technical advice note gives guidance to architects, surveyors, building managers and owners on the removal of graffiti from historic buildings and monuments. It includes information on carrying out a graffiti removal operation, and discusses strategies for preventing or reducing graffiti attack, including the use of sacrificial graffiti barriers.
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Waterlogged wood - guidelines on the recording, sampling, conservation, and curation of waterlogged wood, 1995
This document aims to set out some general guidelines on national recording policies, site sampling and conservation strategies, planning and running of projects involving waterlogged wood and any special considerations that should be taken into account when formulating and implementing such policies.
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Lead roofs on historic buildings - an advisory note on underside corrosion, 1997
This summary of preliminary findings is intended to help professionals; to appreciate some of the issues; in their assessment of lead roofs in historic bodies; in developing proposals for renewal or repair which can reduce the likelihood of ULC whilst minimising the amount of alteration to the building fabric.
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English Nature

Bats in roofs - a guide for surveyors, 1991
A guide for surveyors which covers identification of roosts, and species and roost sites.
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Scottish Conservation Bureau

Studies of the Domestic Dry Rot Fungus 'Serpula Lacrymans' with Relevance to the Management of Decay, 2003
In-depth study which investigates every aspect of this fungus. Also included are several experiments using special chambers to investigate how the fungus can be controlled and killed with some photos showing just how quickly it can spread in a building if no action is taken; dry rot spreads rapidly, digesting wood with amazing speed with the mycelia even colonising masonry walls. Reveals that biological and environmental controls are effective methods of treatment and explains how such methods can be used.

TRADA Technology

Wood Information Sheet 4/17 Pests in houses (May 2005 revision), 2005
There are a large number of insects found in houses. However, many of these are associated with materials other than timber. New houses, particularly of brick and block construction, may in the first year or two be quite damp as the concrete and plaster dries out and insects attracted to these conditions are sometimes seen. Lists the more common pests to be found in houses.
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Dangerous substances (asbestos, explosives, etc)

Asbestos Removal Contractors Association

Recommended Guidelines 2 Recommended guidelines for the correct carriage of asbestos waste, 2003
Intended to indicate to members their responsibilities under current legislation concerning the disposal of asbestos waste and to provide guidance on the practical requirements for the proper classification, packaging, labelling and carriage of asbestos wastes in compliance with current legislation.
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Building Research Establishment

Information Paper 18/00 Ammonia refrigerant in buildings: minimising the hazards, 2000
Ammonia is being increasingly used as refrigerant for building air conditioning systems on account of its low environmental impact and excellent refrigeration properties. However, ammonia is highly toxic which means that greater care is needed in its use. This paper shows that the design of safe ammonia systems must also take into account dispersal mechanisms.
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Department of the Environment

Industry Profile Asbestos manufacturing works, 1995
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Industry Profile Chemical works: explosives, propellants and pyrotechnics manufacturing works, 1995
To provide regulators, developers and other interested parties with authoritative and researched advice on how best to identify, assess and tackle the problems associated with land contamination. The publications cannot address the specific circumstances of each site, since every site is unique. The Contaminated Land Research Report series deals with information needed to assess risks - procedures for categorising and assessing risks - and evaluation and selection of remedial measures.
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Design

Architectural Press

Urban design: green dimensions. 2nd edition, 2005
Relates sustainable development and green design to the realm of urban design and development. Uses cases studies and discusses policy developments in order to challenge the conventional wisdom on sustainable design. Also provides an update on topics such as energy efficiency, sustainable city forms and the culture of new urbanism, and new chapters on urban parks and biodiversity.
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Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit

General Information Leaflet 22 Passive solar house design - Barrett study, 1995
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General Information Leaflet 25 Passive solar house designs - the Farrans study, 1997
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General Information Report 27 Passive solar estate layout, 1997
This Report discusses site planning and the implications of maximising daylight on landscaping and house design. The Report features houses that are not extreme in any sense. They merely have slightly smaller windows on the north side and collect solar energy through carefully sited windows on the south side. They conform to current insulation standards, and are saleable in current markets. The aim of passive solar estate design is to plan the layout of roads and individual house plots to take advantage of available sunlight. This is achieved by: orientating as many houses as possible so that the elevation with the most glazing faces within 30 ° of south. avoiding obstructions in order to maximise solar access to windows. The greatest energy savings from a passive solar estate layout are achieved by using houses specifically designed for passive solar applications. Up to half the savings come from the estate layout with the remainder coming from designing the house itself to take advantage of solar gains.
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Butterworth-Heinemann Ltd

Urban design: green dimensions. 3rd edition, 2005
This book aims to relate the main components of urban design to a general theory or urban structuring with a strong design emphasis but within the general field of sustainable city development.
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Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers

Guide J Weather, solar and illuminance data, 2002
The guide enables users to evaluate building performance in terms of design risk (for example, the amount of time that the internal temperature exceeds a given value in summer). It provides a basis for analysing the interaction of weather with the building fabric and the control system. It also provides computer-based tools to derive statistics from basic weather data and improved weather data for heating and cooling load assessment.
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Council for the Protection of Rural England

Local attraction: the design of new housing in the countryside, 1995
Throughout the country badly designed new development is leaching the distinctiveness and identity from our rural areas. This booklet demonstrates the growing concern about housing design, and pinpoints the failures in the planning and development process which have contributed to declining standards.
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Design and density, 2002
Illustrates how good design can help deliver new housing at higher densities, reducing the need for greenfield development. Also includes three examples of sites.
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Donhead Publishing

Conservation of clay and chalk buildings, 1992
Provides practical guidance on appropriate methods of conservation and repair of earth buildings using traditional building materials. Deals with the nature of clay and chalk, their qualities and characteristics, and the way in which they have been used to construct buildings. Advice is given on soils analysis, the philosophy of repair techniques and the factors to be considered before altering, converting or extending an earth building. Primarily advocates repair techniques using traditional materials, but he also considers the role played by certain modern materials, and assesses their suitability.

Earthscan Publications

Solar architecture in cool climates, 2005
Provides an understanding of key principles and technical data on the design of solar buildings in northern latitudes (or the southern equivalent). Examines how additional costs can be diluted through different strategies, the tensions between energy efficiency and environmental quality, and the proactive control of energy in building design.
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English Partnerships

Time for design 2: good practice in building, landscape and urban design, 1998
'Time for Design' has proved to be a key resource for those who invest in new buildings or who have wished to commission new design in urban and rural areas. This second edition updates the text while leaving the published design principles intact.
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Urban design compendium, 2000
The purpose of the compendium is to help equip project applicants, funding bodies and interested third parties with guidance on achieving and assessing the quality of urban design in developing and restoring urban areas.
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Green Building Press

Building for a future (periodical),
BFF is a dedicated green building magazine, featuring a wide range of, mainly UK , eco-building projects. Many of the articles are written by the builders of the projects featured. An inspiration for architects, builders, developers, self builders and everyone interested in eco-building, including homeowners.

Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Building to last, 1995
Analyses the changing context for housebuilders and describes the new attitudes which are likely to emerge. This report is addressed to those who commission new houses, who influence innovation, and who want a return on their investment.
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Laurence King Publishing

Architecture, engineering and environment, 2002
Explores the relationship between architecture and engineering by addressing the way in which architects and engineers collaborate in the process of design, and how this can benefit the environmental control in buildings. Reviews the historical development of the environmental strand of architecture; this is used as a basis for establishing a classification system which characterises buildings as either 'Selective' (where the envelope acts as a filter for the external climate) or 'Exclusive' (sealing the inside against the external climate) in the way they deal with environmental control.
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Metropolis Books

Design like you give a damn: architectural responses to humanitarian crises, 2006
A compendium of innovative projects from around the world that demonstrate the power of design to improve lives. Offers a history of the movement toward socially conscious design and showcases more than 80 contemporary solutions to such urgent needs as basic shelter, health care, education, and access to clean water, energy, and sanitation. An indispensable resource for designers and humanitarian organisations charged with rebuilding after disaster and engaged in the search for sustainable development.
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R.S. Means Company

Green building: Project planning and cost estimating. 2nd edition, 2006
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Spon Press

Green building handbook: a guide to building products and their impact on the environment: Vol 2, 2000
Provides a detailed reference for environmentally concerned purchasers of building products, and complements perfectly the first Green Building Handbook. Following the format of the original, this book begins with an overview and introduction by Professor Tom Woolley discussing current issues in green building before moving on to consider eight building component types: Fencing Products, Flat Roofing Membranes, Glazing Products, Electrical Wiring, Adhesives, Straw Bale Building, Interior Decoration and Indoor Air Quality and Ventilation.

Green building handbook: a guide to building products and their impact on the environment: Vol 1, 1997
This practical handbook considers the environmental issues which relate to the production, use and disposal of key building products and materials. It is designed to help specifiers and purchasers gain awareness of the potential environmental impact of their decisions. The Green Building Handbook looks at different sectors of the trade; from flooring to roofing, comparing the environmental effects of commonly available products with less well known green alternatives. A Best Buy section then ranks these products from lowest to highest impact.

Thames and Hudson

Eco design handbook, 2005
Presents the best-designed objects for every aspect of the home and office, including the most environmentally sound materials and building products. Contains; An introduction into the history and latest thinking in green design strategies, Illustrated descriptions of objects for domestic living and products for the office or work-related activities, and a Reference source defining available materials, from organic to specially developed eco-sensitive composites, including manufacturers information, design studios, green organisations, online information.
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Town and Country Planning Association

Urban housing capacity and the sustainable city 2: design solutions for increasing urban housing capacity, 1998
This project has six main themes; the cost of reclaiming derelict sites; design solutions for increasing urban capacity; monitoring, evaluation and appraisal of urban housing development; institutional arrangements for maximising capacity; legal and liability issues preventing urban housing development and; the wider picture: barriers to and critical success factors for, urban renewal.
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Design work/drawings

British Standards Institution

BS 7000-1:1999 Design management systems. Guide to managing innovation, 1999
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Building Research Energy Conservation Support Unit

Good Practice Guide 74 Briefing the design team for energy efficiency in new buildings, 1994
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New Practice Profile 119 Hockerton housing project: design lessons for developers and clients, 2000
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Good Practice Case Study 334 Benefits of including energy efficiency early in the design stage - Anglia Polytechnic University, 1996
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Building Research Establishment

Report 253 BRE housing design handbook, 1993
This book will be useful to designers of new and refurbished housing, irrespective of their experience. It is intended to help clients, contractors, developers and all those involved in the process of house building, in both the private and public sectors, to appreciate the wide range of user requirements that must be addressed in the design of housing. As a reference book it provides a means of checking that housing design criteria have been met adequately. It also suggests how to achieve customer satisfaction by meeting their most important needs.
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CIRIA

Publication C512 Environmental handbooks for building and civil engineering projects. Part 1: Design and specification, 2000
The main sections of this part of the environmental handbook comprise: introduction to the key issues involved; agreeing the brief and setting the project environmental policy; inception and feasibility; primary design choices and scheme design; detailed design, working drawings and specifications. Issues covered include: policy and legislation; client and project team commitment; land use and conservation issues; resources, waste minimisation, reuse and recycling; protection of the natural environment from pollution and hazardous substances; energy conservation; internal environment.
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John Wiley and Sons

Passive solar design and construction handbook, 1998
Passive solar design refers to design strategies that minimize or eliminate the need to heat or cool a building mechanically. This sourcebook of details, drawings and case studies of passive solar buildings throughout the U.S. provides is a complete guide to passive solar design and construction.

Development plans

Action with Communities in Rural England

Local plans: involving local communities, 1992
This brief is intended for those involved at the parish and district level - parish and town councils and local voluntary organisations, and for Rural Community Councils.
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Council for the Protection of Rural England

Environmental policy omissions in development plans: a CPRE survey, 1994
A survey by the CPRE showed that the majority of local authority development plans fail to address the main environmental issues now required by Government policy. This leaflet summarises the results of the survey and shows which authorities have left key environmental policies out of their draft development plans.
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Plans and the environment, 1991
Plans and the environment. Annex to draft Planning Policy Guidance note 12. Response by the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
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Department of the Environment

Environmental appraisal of development plans: a good practice guide, 1993
Provides good practice guidelines which have practical and immediate relevance to the carrying out of environmental appraisal in local authority planning departments.
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English Heritage

Conservation issues in strategic plans, 1993
This new guidance follows earlier advice on conservation, which was targeted on planning at metropolitan and district levels. It marks a new direction because of its wider range, development of new ideas, and focus on the strategic level of planning.
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Garden History Society

Advice on the protection of historic parks and gardens in development plans, 1995
Makes suggestions on a drafting of a development plan policy for historic parks and gardens.
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Ducts/flues/pipes

Arboricultural Association

Arboriculture Research Note 36/97 Tree roots and underground pipes, 1997
Advises on how to recognise and avoid problems, regarding tree roots and underground pipes.

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