BS 8103-1:1995
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Structural design of low-rise buildings Code of practice for stability, site investigation, foundations and ground floor slabs for housing
Hardcopy , PDF
30-11-2011
English
15-09-1995
Committees responsible
Foreword
1. Scope
2. References
3. Definitions
4. Symbols?
5. Stability and connections between elements
6. Site investigation
7. Foundations
8. Ground floor slabs
Tables
1. Maximum heights of buildings on normal level sites
2. Maximum heights of buildings on steeply sloping sites
3. Concrete mixes suitable for unreinforced concrete in strip
footings and trench fill foundations subject to sulfates
in the ground or groundwater
4. Wall load categories for 4.5 m floors and 9 m roofs
5. Wall load categories for 6 m floors and 12 m roofs
6. Wall load categories for internal wall foundations
7. Identification of ground material and minimum foundation
widths for wall load categories
Figures
1. Plan form and construction of the ground floor box to
give stability
2. Diagram illustrating the action of wind forces
3. Walls with a difference in level on opposite sides
4. Building shape
5. Maximum height of building
6. Measurement of storey height of walls in metres
7. Basic wind speed
8. Diagram of a house showing location and type of connections
necessary between elements
9. Timber floor bearing on to wall
10. Timber floor spanning parallel with a wall
11. Timber floor supported on standard joist hanger
12. Concrete suspended floor bearing on to wall
13. Concrete suspended floor abutting wall
14. Precast concrete beam and block type floor abutting or
spanning on to wall
15. Tying of pitched roofs to gable walls
16. Pitched or flat roof bearing on to a wallplate
17. Types of foundation
18. Foundation adjoining a trench
19. Thickness of foundations
20. Stepped foundations
21. Position of walls on foundations
22. Foundations to walls with projections
23. In situ concrete ground-supported slab
List of references
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