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Agrément certificates

  • 92/2782 Floors
  • 97/3431 Inverted roofs

Building Regulations

  • Approved Documents to the Building Regulations
    • A  Structure
    • B  Fire safety
    • C  Site preparation and resistance to moisture
    • E  Resistance to the passage of sound
    • L1A Conservation of fuel and power in new dwellings
    • L1B Conservation of fuel and power in existing dwellings
    • L2A Conservation of fuel and power in new buildings other than dwellings
    • L2B Conservation of fuel and power in existing buildings other than dwellings
  • Technical Handbooks to Building Standards Scotland Regulations

BRE publications

  • Thermal insulation: avoiding risks BR 262:2002.
  • Conventions for U-value calculations  – B. Anderson BR443: 2006
  • Building Elements: ‘Floors and Flooring’ – PW Pye and HW Harris BR 332: 1997
  • Foundations, basements and external walls  BR 440: 2002.
  • BRE Digest 295: Stability under wind load of loose-laid external roof insulation boards.
  • BRE Digest 311. Wind scour of gravel ballast on roofs.
  • BRE IP 17/01. Assessing the effects of thermal bridging at junctions and around openings in the external elements of buildings.

British Standards

  • BS 743: 1970: Specification for materials for damp proof courses.
  • BS 476: Fire tests on building materials and structures.
    Part 2: 1987. Methods for determination of the fire resistance of loadbearing elements of construction.
    Part 3: 1958: External fire exposure roof test
  • BS 743:1970: Specification for Materials for Damp  proof courses.
  • BS 1202: Specification for nails.
    Part 1: 2002: Steel nails.
  • BS 5250: 2002: Code of practice for control of condensation in buildings.
  • BS 5427: Code of practice for the use of profiled sheet for roof and wall cladding on buildings.
    Part 1: 1996: Design.
  • BS 5950: Structural use of steelwork in building.
    Part 4: 1994 Code of practice for design of composite slabs with profiled steel sheeting.
  • BS 5268: Structural use of timber.
    Part 4: Fire resistance of timber structures. – Section 4.2: 1990: Recommendations for calculating fire resistance of timber stud walls and joisted floor constructions.
    Part 7: Recommendations for the calculation basis for span tables. – Section 7.1: 1989: Domestic floor joists.
  • BS 5502: Buildings and structures for agriculture.
    Part 23: 1990: Code of practice for fire precautions.
    Part 42: 1990: Code of practice for design and construction of pig buildings.
    Part 71: 1992: Code of practice for design and construction of ventilated stores for potatoes and onions.
  • BS 5534: 2003: Code of practice for slating and tiling.
  • BS 5628: Code of practice for use of masonry.
    Part 3: 1985: Materials and components, design and workmanship.
  • BS 6203: 1991 (1996) Guide to fire characteristics and fire performance of expanded polystyrene materials used in building applications.
  • BS 6229: 2003: Code of practice for flat roofs with continuously supported coverings.
  • BS 6398: 1983: Specification for bitumen damp proof courses for masonry.
  • BS 6399: Loading for Buildings
    Part 1: 1996: Code of practice for dead and imposed loads.
    Part 2: 1997: Code of practice for wind loads.
    Part 3: 1988: Code of practice for imposed roof loads.
  • BS 6515: 1984 (1996) Specification for polyethylene damp-proof courses for masonry.
  • BS 8000: Workmanship on building sites.
    Part 4: 1989: Code of practice for waterproofing.
  • BS 8102: 1990: Code of practice for protection of structures against water from the ground.
  • BS 8103 Structural Design of low-rise buildings.
    Part 1: 1995: Code of practice for stability, site investigation, foundations and ground floor slabs for housing.
  • BS 8110: Structural use of concrete.
    Part 1: 1997: Code of practice for design and construction.
  • BS 8201: 1987 Code of practice for flooring of timber, timber products and wood based panel products.
  • BS 8203: 2001 Code of practice for resilient floor coverings.
  • BS 8204: Screeds, bases and in-situ floorings.
    Part 1: 1999 Code of practice for concrete bases and cement sand levelling screeds to receive floorings.
    Part 2: 1999: Code of practice for concrete wearing surfaces.
  • BS 8215: 1991: Code of practice for design and installation of damp proof courses in masonry construction.
  • BS 8218: 1998: Code of practice for mastic asphalt roofing.
  • CP 1018: 1971 (1993) Electric floorwarming systems for use with off-peak and similar supplies of electricity.

European standards

  • BS EN 1264:  Floor heating. Systems and components.
    Part 4: 2001 Installation
  • BS EN 12056: Gravity drainage systems inside buildings.
    Part 3: 2000: Roof drainage, layout and calculation.
  • BS EN 13164: 2001 Thermal insulation products for buildings - Factory made products of extruded polystyrene (XPS) specification.
  • BS EN 13501: Fire classification of construction products and building elements.
    Part 1: Classification using test data from reaction to fire tests
  • BS EN 13370: 1998 Thermal performance of buildings – Heat transfer via the ground – Calculation methods
  • BS EN 13788: 2002 Hygrothermal performance of building components and building elements - Internal surface temperature to avoid critical surface humidity and interstitial condensation - Calculation methods.
  • BS EN 13789: 1999: Thermal performance of buildings -Transmission heat loss coefficient - Calculation method.

International standards

  • BS EN ISO 6946: 1997 Building components and building elements – Thermal resistance and thermal transmittance – Calculation method.

Other publications

  • CIBSE Guide A (1999)
  • DEFRA/DTLR Robust Details – Limiting thermal bridging and air leakage: Robust Construction details for dwellings and similar buildings. 2002