The Scottish Building Regulations Explained

The book provides a practical guide, with worked examples, to the Scottish Building Regulations. The new edition takes account of substantial revisions to the Regulations on fire and means of escape, structural stability, conservation of fuel and power, and drainage.

George Bett is the author of The Scottish Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

Frith Hoehnke is the author of The Scottish Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

James Robison is the author of The Scottish Building Regulations: Explained and Illustrated, 3rd Edition, published by Wiley.

Preface

vii

Acknowledgments

ix

General Introduction

xi

Introduction

xv

I Legal and Administrative Matters

1

(56)

Building control: an overview

3

(4)

The 1959 Act and its regulations

7

(34)

Administration of building control

41

(6)

Legal liabilities

47

(10)

II Technical Matters

57

(280)

Introduction

59

(28)

(Part A) (Regulations 1-9)

Fitness of Materials and workmanship

87

(4)

(Part B) (Regulation 10)

Structure

91

(26)

(Part C) (Regulation 11)

Introduction to Parts D (structural fire precautions) and E (means of escape from fire etc.)

117

(6)

Structural fire precautions

123

(14)

(Part D) (Regulation 12)

Means of escape from fire, facilities for fire-fighting and means of warning of fire

137

(34)

(Part E) (Regulation 13)

Combustion appliance installations and storage of liquid and gaseous fuels

171

(36)

(Part F) (Regulations 14 & 15)

Preparation of sites and resistance to moisture

207

(18)

(Part G) (Regulations 16, 17 & 18)

Resistance to transmission of sound

225

(26)

(Part H) (Regulations 19, 20 & 21)

Conservation of fuel and power

251

(18)

(Part J) (Regulation 22)

Ventilation of buildings

269

(14)

(Part K) (Regulation 23)

Drainage and sanitary facilities

283

(22)

(Part M) (Regulations 24 & 25)

Meetrical installations

305

(4)

(Part N) (Regulation 26 + 26A)

Miseellaneous hazards

309

(6)

(Part P) (Regulations 27 & 28)

Access and facilities for dwelling

315

(6)

(Part Q) (Regulation 29)

Storage of waste

321

(4)

(Part R) (Regulations 30 & 31)

Access to and movement within buildings, and protective barriers

325

(12)

(Part S) (Regulation 32)

III Appendices

337

(52)

Appendix 1. Historical perspective of building control

339

(4)

Appendix 2. Table of fees

343

(2)

Appendix 3. List of publications referred to in Technical Standards

345

(22)

Appendix 4. Building and buildings

367

(22)

Index

389

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