Melanie Smith - Building Surveyor’s Pocket Book (Routledge Pocket Books)

Building Surveyors Pocket Book

Building Surveyors Pocket Book is an accessible encyclopaedia of matters vital to building surveyors. Well-illustrated with diagrams, pictures, tables, and graphs, it covers all essential elements of building pathology, building performance, and building construction terminology in a simple, accessible way for the practitioner and student. This Pocket Book provides a practical and portable reference text, working as a first-stop publication for those wishing to refresh their knowledge or in need of guidance on surveying practice. Working through fundamental principles in key practice areas, the book is not overly bound by the regulation and legislation of one region, and the principles can be applied internationally.

This book is ideal reading for individual surveyors, practitioners, and students in building surveying, facilities management, refurbishment, maintenance, renovation, and services management. It is also of use for those interested in building forensics, building performance, pathology, and anyone studying for their RICS APC. Many other professions in architecture, contracting, engineering, and safety will also find the book of use when undertaking similar practice.

Dr Melanie Smith , FRICS, GIFireE, NRAC Consultant, PGCHE, Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University. Melanie is a Building Surveyor and Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors with over 40 years experience in local authority, private practice, and education sectors. She has been a graduate member of the Institution of Fire Engineers and on the National Register of Access Consultants. Melanie has worked on all types and sizes of buildings for professional services, compliance, fire, access, retrofit, and upgrade purposes, with expertise in conflicting requirements. She has been instrumental in governmental and institutional guidance and codes. Melanie is a member of the Leeds Sustainability Institute, a past Chair of the Yorkshire branch of the RICS Building Surveyors, a Civic Trust Award assessor, and has sat on BSi and RICS working groups. Her doctorate, awarded in 2019, is entitled A Study of Building Surveying Praxes to Inform Design of Thermal Retrofit. This identifies common shortcomings of retrofit solid wall insulation measures and determines an appropriate approach for pre-design retrofit building surveys.

Prof. Dr Christopher Gorse , MCIOB, MAPM, Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University. Chris is a Professor of Construction and Project Management at Leeds Beckett University. He is a Chartered Builder with over 30 years industrial and academic experience in buildings, materials, management, and construction law. Chris has written extensively on the construction of domestic and industrial buildings, and the processes required to deliver them successfully and to measure their performance. As Director of the Leeds Sustainability Institute and Head of the Low Carbon Sustainability Research Group, Chris leads one of the most successful building performance research units in the UK. The group has contributed to changes in the Building Regulations, undertaken research and development of new energy-saving products, and successfully secured patents. Chris is the Chair of the international group Sustainable Ecological Engineering Design for Society (SEEDS), leads research for subgroups at the International Energy Agency, and is past Chair of the Association of Researchers in Construction Management and Visiting Professor at the Central University of Technology, Free State South Africa, in the Unit of Lean Construction and Sustainability.

Building Surveyors Pocket Book

Melanie Smith and Christopher Gorse

First published 2021
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British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Smith, Melanie (Building surveyor), author. | Gorse, Christopher A., author.
Title: Building surveyors pocket book / Melanie Smith and Christopher Gorse.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2021. |
Series: Routledge pocket books | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020053018 (print) |
LCCN 2020053019 (ebook) | ISBN 9781138307902 (hbk) | ISBN 9781138307919 (pbk) | ISBN 9781315142647 (ebk)
Subjects: LCSH: Building inspectionHandbooks, manuals, etc. | BuildingsEvaluationHandbooks, manuals, etc. | BuildingsValuationHandbooks, manuals, etc. | BuildingSuperintendenceHandbooks, manuals, etc.
Classification: LCC TH439.S64 2021 (print) | LCC TH439 (ebook) | DDC 690/.21dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053018
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020053019

ISBN: 978-1-138-30790-2 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-138-30791-9 (pbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-14264-7 (ebk)

Typeset in Bembo
by Deanta Global Publishing Services, Chennai, India

Contents

Melanie Smith and Chris Gorse

Chris Gorse and Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith and B. N. West

Chris Gorse, Melanie Smith, B. N. West, Cormac Flood and Lloyd M. Scott

Chris Gorse, Melanie Smith, Matthew Brooke-Peat, Martin Fletcher, Cormac Flood, Lloyd Scott, and John Spillane

Melanie Smith

John Bruen and John P. Spillane

Cormac Flood, Chris Gorse, Lloyd M. Scott and Melanie Smith

John L. Sturges

Melanie Smith

We would like to gratefully acknowledge and thank the following for their input to this book:

• Ian Dickinson , Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, for his huge input, including the illustration production of so many of the figures and hard work in proof-reading this book
• Dr Matthew Brooke-Peat , MCIAT, MCIOB, CEnv, Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, for his contributions regarding thermal modelling in the chapter on thermal performance
• John Bruen , BSc Arch, BArch, MSc Proj. Mgt., RIBA, MRIAI, ARB, RSUA, CEPHD, Chartered Architect and Certified Passive House Designer, Bruen Architects, Belfast, for his contributions to the chapter on disasters and the built environment
• Dr Martin Fletcher , Leeds Sustainability Institute, Leeds Beckett University, for his contributions regarding thermal comfort in the chapter on thermal performance
• Dr Cormac Flood , BSc, MPhil, Coady Architects, Dublin, and Dublin School of Architecture, for his contributions to the chapters on retrofitting and refurbishment, thermal performance, and environmental considerations