Avoiding Disasters (5 Parts)

Synopsis: Technical presentations, each one an illustrated lecture by a member of Bickerdike Allen Partners, a large part of whose work is devoted to the investigation of building defects and the subsequent dissemination of their findings back to the industry.
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 38, 40, 45, 43, 25 min.
Year of production: 1990
Availability: Sale; 2005 sale: £35.00 (+VAT +p&p) each - parts 1 & 2 £40 each (parts 3-5)
Subjects: Engineering
Keywords: architectural design; construction industry; floors; sound insulation; waterproofing; building defects

Title: Avoiding disasters: hard finished floors
Synopsis: 1: Roger Bloomfield describes his experience of the failures that occur with new materials and composites. In four main sections: introduction and historical background; design, structure and finishes; materials; workmanship.
Title: Avoiding disasters: acoustics
Synopsis: 2: William Allen on the need for real skill and judgement in the area of acoustics. The management of good architectural acoustics by design ranges from the commonplace skills of controlling noise to the excitement of music and theatre. He discusses the i
Title: Avoiding disasters: curtain walling: the exclusion of water
Synopsis: 3: Barry Josey discusses ways of preventing rain penetration in curtain wall design. Covers leakage mechanisms, fully bedded systems and the development of pressure equalised systems.
Title: Avoiding disasters: rainscreen cladding
Synopsis: 4: William Allen and Barry Josey discuss the essential principles of the rainscreen system, applications on traditional wall systems, basic components of a good quality rainscreen, pressure equalisation and closed rainscreen systems.
Title: Avoiding disasters: rehabilitation
Synopsis: 5: Jack Anderson demonstrates the variety of defects which result in the need for rehabilitation and presents a cautionary series of examples. He discusses these problems in relation to different building types and the opportunity for combining rehabilita

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