Build 149 Materials Cover

Build Magazine — 149

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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?