Foreword
Committees responsible
Code of practice
Section one. General
0. Introduction
1. Scope
2. Definition
Section two. Performance criteria
3. General
4. Size and weight
5. Appearance
6. Strength: structural strength and stability
7. Strength: impact
8. Strength: explosive forces
9. Strength: fixings
10. Fire
11. Air permeability
12. Permeability to water vapour
13. Moisture content
14. Water absorption
15. Water penetration
16. Capillarity
17. Moisture movement
18. Effect of frost
19. Effect of weathering, atmospheric pollution and
     chemical attack
20. Effect of biological attack
21. Thermal properties
22. Protection against solar radiation
23. Effect of changes in temperature
24. Effect of sunlight
25. Sound transmission
26. Junctions
27. Durability and design life
28. Safety and security
Section three. Design
29. Design method
30. Choice of enclosure
31. Windows
32. Thermal, moisture and structural movement
33. Control of water
34. Jointing and sealing, including glazing
35. Control of heat
36. Condensation
37. Control of sound
38. Attachment
39. Access for maintenance
Section four. Production of components
40. Tolerances on manufactured components
41. Handling points
42. Marking and packing
Section five. Site procedure
43. Delivery and handling
44. Storage of prefabricated components
45. Erection sequence
46. Setting out
47. Fixings
48. Joints
49. Glazing
50. Temporary supports
51. Protection of work
52. Cleaning and adjusting
Section six. Inspection and maintenance
53. Periodic inspection
54. Maintenance
55. Repair and replacement
56. Documentation
Appendices
A. Bibliography
B. Climate
C. Locality
D. Activity criteria
E. Noise criteria
F. Side-effects of activities
G. Methods of test for impact resistance of opaque
     wall components
H. Design decisions
Tables
1. Maximum recoverable deflection under design load
2. Categories associated with impacts on surfaces
     of the vertical enclosure to buildings
3. Test impacts for retention of performance of
     exterior wall surfaces
4. Test impacts to ensure safety to persons
5. Typical loads supported from internal surfaces
6. Absorption coefficients of some common clean
     building materials
7. Effect of window size on sound insulation of walling
8. Sound insulation provided by closed windows
9. Examples of means of achieving sound insulation
10. Considerations affecting choice of materials
11. Thermal movement of building materials
12. Reversible moisture movement
13. Maximum amount of unshaded clear single glazing
     facing east-south-east to west-south-west to keep
     inside environmental temperature within specified
     limits
14. Typical transmittance characteristics for various
     types of glasses
15. Solar heat gain: typical correction factors for
     shading devices
16. Climatic data
17. Data on locality
18. Range of noise levels at locations in which traffic
     noise predominates
19. Activity criteria
20. Recommended background noise criteria
21. Side-effects of activities
22. Impactors for test purposes
23. Check list for enclosure design
Figures
1. Effect on thermal transmittance of opaque panels on
     thermal transmittance of an enclosure with single
     or double glazing
2. Relationship between indoor and outdoor air
     temperatures, inside surface temperature and thermal
     transmittance
3. Surface condensation prediction chart
4. Element junctions
5. Constructional method: walling to structure
6. Movement of panels due to structural deflection
7. Provision for movement
8. Rain-screen construction
9. Rainwater flow over projections
10. Rainwater paths
11. Location of panel between framing members
12. Maximum instantaneous solar heat gain through
     single glazing, 52 deg N latitude
13. Dew point prediction chart
14. Temperature drop
15. Control of condensation
16. Relationship of sound insulation to mass
17. Sound insulation of a 150 mm dense concrete wall
18. The effect of non-uniform insulation
19. Flanking transmission of sound
20. Forces acting on the panel
21. Principle of 'support and restraint'
Index