Title Investigating hazardous and deleterious building materials / Trevor Rushton

Published Coventry : RICS, 2006

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MELB	690.22 Rus/Iha		AVAILABLE

Description xii, 218 pages : illustrations (some color) 0 cm Contents Contents : Hazardous materials : Asbestos ; CFCs ; Crystalline Silica ; Formaldehyde ; Lead ; Man made mineral fibres ; Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) ; Vermiculite ; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) ; Wood preservatives -- Deleterious materials : Brick slips and brick panels ; Calcium chlorides ; Calcium silicate brickwork ; Cem-fil ; High alumina cement (HAC) concrete ; Mundic ; Sea dredged aggregates ; Wood wool slabs or wood wool cement boards -- Problematic materials : Cement fibre slates ; Composite panels ; Galvanised steel wall ties ; Hollow clay pot floor ; Nickel sulphides ; RAAC planks ; Thin stone panels -- Other materials : Hair plaster ; Masonry and steel - coke breeze and filler joist construction ; Masonry and steel - Regent St disease Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Subject Building materials -- Safety measures. Hazardous substances. Building materials -- Defects. Author Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. ISBN 1842192914

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