UNIT 3 & 4: Preparing and Undertaking Home Condition Inspections to Required Standards
Includes books covering the following:
- Identifying and agreeing client requirements
- Making preliminary enquiries about the property
- Inspecting the property for condition
- Making complete records of findings
- Interpreting evidence and determining condition ratings
- Gathering information on energy efficiency
- Understanding the methodology and pathology of domestic building construction over the ages
Building Surveys
P Glover - Butterworth Heinemann
This new edition includes a completely revised section on surveying historic buildings...
Cracking and Building Movement - Book and CD ROM
P Dickinson & N Thornton - RICS Books
A comprehensive one-stop guide for surveyors on cracking and building movement. This book provides practising building surveyors, structural engineers and construction professionals with a true one-stop guide to inspection, diagnosis, reporting and repair of cracking problems in buildings...
Diagnosing Damp
R Burkinshaw & M Parrett - RICS Books
New from RICS Books, one of the first practical guides on damp investigation. Packed full of photographs, checklists and diagrams, this book will provide you with a complete reference source to improve your knowledge and aid diagnosis of damp...
Flat Roof Covering Problems - RICS Guidance Note
RICS - RICS Books
This guidance note gives recommendations for the diagnosis, remedy and prevention of failures in a variety of existing flat roof weathering materials. It assists the surveyor with the correct diagnosis of a flat roof covering problem so that appropriate remedial...
Home Inspectors Handbook
P Parnham & C Rispin - RICS Books
The Housing Act 2004 has created the need for a new profession - the licensed Home Inspector. The opportunities for those qualifying to undertake this new role are great, but there is...
Inspections and Reports on Dwellings: Assessing Age
I Gordon & A Melville - The Estates Gazette
As essential requirement for all types of report, the first in the series divides the UK stock into 12 age bands, each containing 72 colour photographs stretching back from the present to before 1670. Unrivalled in its coverage.
Inspections and Reports on Dwellings: Inspecting
I Gordon & A Melville - The Estates Gazette
This book describes the work of inspecting all visible and accessible parts of dwellings as required by the Conditions of Engagement for all five types of report. Ascertaining construction and assessing condition are extensively covered...
Surveying Buildings - 5th Edition
Malcolm Hollis - RICS Books
This new edition has been completely updated throughout to reflect recent legislation and RICS best practice changes. Extensive new case studies have been added highlighting common defects as well as new material...
Non Traditional Housing Types - An Aid to Indentification
Building Research Establishment - IHS Rapidoc (BRE Bookshop)
Non-Traditional Housing Types - Book & CD-Rom is a unique and comprehensive work, researched and developed over the past 20 years by BRE - Building Research Establishment and now made available through RICS Books Retail...
Recognising Wood Rot and Insect Damage in Buildings
A F Bravery, R W Berry, J K Carey & D E Cooper - IHS Rapidoc (BRE Bookshop)
Fungi and insects are attacking wood in buildings right now, causing damage that will require expensive remedial measures. The new edition of this bestselling publication will help you identify and combat the problem...
Stone Decay - Its Causes and Controls
B J Smith & P A Warke - Donhead Publishing Limited
This volume offers valuable insights into the nature of decay processes and the factors that control them...
Surveying Houses: The Home Inspector's Pocket Book
Building Research Establishment - IHS Rapidoc (BRE Bookshop)
Considers the performance of the main building elements in relation to moisture exclusion and looks in detail at condensation and rising damp. The new edition includes more material on dampness in masonry...
Cracking in Buildings
R Bonsher & L Bonsher - IHS Rapidoc (BRE Bookshop)
Only through understanding these causes can surveyors and others who investigate the phenomenon begin to offer diagnoses and remedies. This book contains detailed descriptions of the various methods of designing to prevent cracking.
Building Maintenance Management
Barrie Chanter & Peter Swallow - Blackwell Publishing
An up-to-date review of building maintenance. Sets maintenance in the context of the industry as a whole and the client's organisation and considers the various types of maintenance work. Information management and IT are looked at in detail, and contractual aspects are also discussed...
The Survey and Repair of Traditional Buildings
Richard Oxley - Donhead Publishing Ltd
Understanding the unique requirements of traditional buildings is crucial to providing appropriate guidance on their care and repair. This book will help practitioners identify the particular issues relating to older buildings and the problems they may...
The Technology of Building Defects
John Hinks & Geoff Cook - International Thomson Publishing Ltd
The Technology of Building Defects has been developed to provide a unique stand-alone overview of the subject. Defects are considered as part of the whole building rather than in isolation...
Understanding Housing Defects
Duncan Marshall, Derek Worthing & Roger Heath - EG Books
Understanding Housing Defects is now in its second edition. Extensively revised and updated, this second edition includes new graphics, many more photographs and an extended text. A natural companion to The Construction of Houses, this work provides a concise...
Modern Methods of House Construction
K Ross - IHS Rapidoc (BRE Bookshop)
The term ’modern methods of construction’ covers a broad range of construction types, from complete housing systems built in factories through to new site-based technologies...
Flood Damaged Property
Robby Soetanto & David Proverbs - Blackwell Publishing
With climate change and the development of property on flood plains, the flooding of buildings has become a considerable problem, both for property owners and their insurers...
Homebuyer Survey to Home Condition Report - Making The Change
Stephen Callaghan - RICS Books
There are approximately 1.4 million house sales each year in England and Wales. Of these, only 1 in 5 currently commission any sort of survey on the property. Under new legislation, it will soon be mandatory for all homes marketed for sale to first have a Home Condition Report (HCR)...
Lee's Building Maintenance Management
Reginald Lee & Paul Wordsworth - Blackwell Publishing
Since it was written by Reg Lee, this book has played a significant part in developing the framework of Building Maintenance. Covered in a systematic and comprehensive way, this book looks into a wide range of issues from the legal to the technical and financial...
Residential Property Appraisal
P Parnham & C Rispin - Spon Press
This is a classic practitioner's handbook for surveyors involved in the appraisal of residential property for lending purposes. It focuses on and identifies the distinct professional competencies required by mortgage valuations and Homebuyer surveys and valuations...
Dampness in Buildings
A Oliver, J Douglas & S Stirling - Blackwell Publishing
A thorough visual inspection to categorise the condition of homes is essential during home inspections and when planning refurbishment and upgrading work...
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