Featured in this Build magazine issue
Noise in buildings: Poor acoustics not only have a negative impact on health and wellbeing, they have a quantified affect on the market value of a dwelling. To get noise levels right takes real science and an understanding of how sound and materials interact.
Materials performance
- Concrete commitment to innovation
- Timber takes on new forms
- Steel construction booms
- Predicting plastics durability
- Guiding seismic retrofits of reinforced concrete buildings
- Keeping corrosion at bay
- Building materials in geothermal areas
Noise in buildings
- Economics of better acoustic insulation
- Reducing noise transfer
- Sounds right
Build Right
- Timber windows in a cavity
- What is acceptable building work?
- Spacing those bracing lines
Design Right
- Seismic restraint of building services
- Universal design for indoors
- Beam and truss uplifts
Departments
- Drawn to structural engineering
- Ventilation and subfloors
- Big gains from passive design
- Plug the gaps
- Virtually happening
- Learning from innovation
- Insolvency law clearer
- When it’s a family affair
- Safety first
Regulars
- Exciting time for materials
- Architects reply
- Where has the fun gone?