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Building Design Checklist

The document is a checklist for building design that includes over 50 items to consider across multiple categories. It covers topics related to the building site and ground conditions like geology, flooding risk and contamination; ecology factors; historical elements; adjacent structures; utilities; hazardous materials; structural loads; foundations; lateral stability; robustness; materials; fire protection; insulation; construction methods; testing; and access considerations. The comprehensive checklist aims to ensure all relevant factors are addressed during building design.

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Building Design Checklist

The document is a checklist for building design that includes over 50 items to consider across multiple categories. It covers topics related to the building site and ground conditions like geology, flooding risk and contamination; ecology factors; historical elements; adjacent structures; utilities; hazardous materials; structural loads; foundations; lateral stability; robustness; materials; fire protection; insulation; construction methods; testing; and access considerations. The comprehensive checklist aims to ensure all relevant factors are addressed during building design.

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Building Design Checklist

22 June 2012 15:33

• Lightning protection
• Ground structure
○ Allowable bearing pressures
○ Shrinkable soils
○ Soft spots
• Ground contamination
○ Sulphates
○ Salts
○ Gases, eg Radon
• Water level
○ Flooding
○ Sea water
○ Groundwater flow
○ Tanking of basements
○ Tidal effects - backpressure on drains
• Ecology
○ Bats, bugs & furries
○ Tree protection orders
○ Trees and swellable soils
○ Japanese knotweed & similar
• Historicals
○ Archaeology
○ Listed buildings
• Adjacent foundations
○ Undermining
○ Underpinning
• Demesne & trespass
• Services
○ Sewers, gas, electrical, comms
○ Sewer connection application
○ Electrical substations
○ Tunnels
• Asbestos
• Previous uses
○ Petrol stations
○ Chemical storage
• Car parking
• Movement joints in the structure
• Materials
○ Steel Grades
○ Steel Subgrades
○ Stainless steel
○ Weathering steel
○ Cold-formed steel
○ Aluminium
○ Concrete grades
○ High strength concrete
○ Historic steel and concrete grades
Masonry

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○ Masonry
○ Glass
○ Timber
○ Cast iron
• Loads
○ Self-weight
○ Additional dead
○ Imposed
○ Plant
○ Wind
○ Snow
○ Thermal
○ Geotechnical
○ Cranes
○ Seismic
○ Ice or snow build-up leading to additional wind load
○ Vortex shedding
• Foundations
○ Strips
○ Pads
○ Raft
○ Piled
○ Chairs for supporting top mat rebar
• Ground bearing slabs
○ Expansion joints
○ Isolation from structure
• Lateral stability
• Robustness
• Early thermal cracking
• Capacity
○ Buckling
○ Punching
• Fatigue
• Dynamics
○ Dance floors
○ Hospitals
○ Laboratories
○ Link bridges
• Aeroelastic effects
• Wind tunnel effect causing doors and windows to blow open or closed, or affecting
pedestrians
• Dynamic-pedestrian interaction
• Galloping
• Corrosion
○ Detailing
○ Protection
• Fire
○ Fire endurance periods
○ Protection
○ Escape routes
• Insulation
• Masonry support
• Movement joints in the finishes
• Service holes
○ slabs
○ beams
• Construction

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• Construction
○ Ground propping
○ Backpropping RC slabs
○ Propping composite slabs
• Acceptance of drawings
• Review method statements
• Cube tests
○ Specifying
○ Checking
• Pull-out tests for anchors
• Weld testing
○ Specifying
○ Checking
• Site inspections
○ Rebar layouts
○ Concrete condition
○ Cracking
• Free standing walls
• Retaining walls
• Window-cleaning and maintenance access
• Fire tender access
• Paths and roads
• Fences - BS 1722-12:2006

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