Tag: walls

WALLS OF BRICK AND BLOCK

Strength and Stability Up to the middle of the twentieth century the design and construction of small buildings, such as houses, was based on tried, traditional forms of construction. There were …

Walls Fire safety

Fires in buildings generally start from a small source of ignition, the ‘outbreak of fire’, which leads to the ‘spread of fire’ followed by a steady state during which …

Oversite concrete

When {Portland cement} was first continuously produced, towards the end of the nineteenth century, it became practical to cover the site of buildings with a layer of concrete as …