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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