BS 8103-1:1986
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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
15-09-1995
English
31-03-1986
Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
1 Scope
2 Definitions
3 Symbols
4 Stability and connections between elements
5 Site investigation
6 Foundations
7 Ground floor slabs
Tables
1 Areas of the United Kingdom within the scope of this
code
2 Suitable mixes for plain concrete in strip
foundations subject to sulphate-bearing soils and
ground waters
3 Wall load categories for perimeter and party wall
foundations
4 Wall load categories for internal wall foundations
5 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
7 Wind exposure zones for the United Kingdom
8 Diagram of a house illustrating location and type of
connections required between elements
9 Timber floor bearing onto 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 Pitched roof: strapping at ceiling where roof spans
parallel with a wall (similar detail for flat roof
spanning parallel with wall)
16 Pitched roof, connections at gable verge line
17 Pitched or flat roof bearing on to a wall plate
18 Types of foundation
19 Foundation adjoining a trench
20 Thickness of foundations
21 Stepped foundations
22 Foundations to walls with projections
23 In situ concrete ground-supported slab
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