Product Description

Non-traditional houses was first published as a book in 2004 and is now available in a fully searchable pdf format on CD ROM. The CD ROM gives housing professionals, building surveyors, engineers and architects easy access to a vast 1000-page reference library detailing 450 non-traditional house types classified by form of construction:

• - metal framed
• - precast concrete
• - in-situ concrete
• - timber framed

A wealth of information and advice from the leading experts is brought together in this comprehensive and highly illustrated reference, now available in a new digital edition that offers remarkable value for money. For each house type there is an isometric drawing that provides a clear explanation of the construction detail.

Brief notes for surveyors are given for those housing systems investigated by BRE - more detailed information for some of these is given in the structural condition reports on the non-traditional housing PDF http://www.brebookshop.com/details.jsp?id=327968

Extensive background information and an invaluable search tool are included on the CD ROM. The search tool identifies houses by type, local authority area, construction class, identifying characteristics, or combinations of these. The CD includes six government reports on prefabrication and system building from the Burt Committee in the 1940s, the Moir Committee in 1920, corrosion of steel in steel houses (1951), and prefabrication (1965).

A digital download version of this publication can be purchased here.

CONTENTS

Foreword
The Editors
Preface
Introduction
Acronyms
How to use this book
Designated defective houses
References
Further reading
List of house types
PART ONE: METAL FRAMED HOUSES
Appendix to Part One: Metal framed houses
PART TWO: PRECAST CONCRETE HOUSES
Appendix to Part Two: Precast concrete houses
PART THREE: IN-SITU CONCRETE HOUSES
Appendix to Part Three: In-situ concrete houses
PART FOUR: TIMBER FRAMED HOUSES
Appendix to Part Four: Timber framed houses
Appendices
A Systems for which information on structure is not available
B Systems based on small unit size loadbearing masonry
C Rationalised traditional houses
Index of house names and alternative names

CD ROM
Non-traditional houses: Identifying non-traditional houses in the UK 1918-75 (digital edition)

The Non-Trad Search Engine
BRE and government reports (pdf files):
Moir Committee Report on new methods of house construction, 1920
Burt Committee Reports on house construction:
First Report, 1944
Second Report, 1946
Third Report, 1948
The corrosion of steel in steel houses, 1951
Prefabrication: a history of its development in Great Britain, 1965