Structural Survey: Volume 32 Issue 3

The assessment of structural concretes during construction phases

Giuseppina Uva, Francesco Porco, Andrea Fiore, Mauro Mezzina

The purpose of this paper is to collect the numerical elaboration of resistances measured on cubes made during the concrete casting and on cores extracted after the completion of…

Building heritage in Enterprise Zones: the latest threat or opportunity?

Justin Birch, Graham Squires

The purpose of this paper is to consider heritage for buildings within Enterprise Zones – a programme promoted by central government to improve the UK economy. A central view has…

The consideration of trees in rights of light cases: part 1

Peter S. Defoe, Catherine Spence

– The purpose of this paper is to establish a methodology by which the impact of trees may be assessed in rights of light cases.

Optimising maintenance cost performance with skilled technicians

Cheong Peng Au-Yong, Azlan Shah Ali, Faizah Ahmad

High-maintenance cost is the common issue in building industry due to low service quality of maintenance management in Malaysia. Lack of preventive measure is the problem that…

Learning from design reviews in low energy buildings

Olivia Guerra-Santin, Aidan Christopher Tweed, Maria Gabriela Zapata-Lancaster

The purpose of this paper is to determine the usability of design reviews to inform designers about low carbon technologies and building performance. The design review of three…

Surface consolidation of natural stone materials using microbial induced calcite precipitation

Alan Richardson, Kathryn A. Coventry, Alan M. Forster, Chris Jamison

Deterioration in natural stone is associated with many decay mechanisms and often the inherent composition of the materials themselves. Sandstone varies considerably but they all…

Editorial

Mark Shelbourn and David Proverbs