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  • Bearings For Beams Other Than Timber In Empirical Construction

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    (1) Beans and girders, other than lintels referred to in subsection (3), which support only a floor carrying a superimposed load not exceeding 250 kilograms per square metre, and which rest on empirically constructed walls or piers, shall have a bearing-area at each end of each opening bridged by such a beam or girder of…

  • Wall-Sections Between Openings In Empirically Constructed Walls

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    (1) The number size or position of openings in a wall, including chases or recesses regarded as openings in terms of subsection (20 or (30 of sections 17, shall not be such as to impair the stability of the wall or any part of it. (2) The distance between any part of an opening made…

  • Floors, Roofs, Chases, Recesses And Panel-Walls In Empirical Construction

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    (1) The provisions of this section shall apply in empirically constructed buildings of masonry. (2) Suspended floors other than of timber, or structural units comprising such floors, shall not exceed in span the figure set out column 3 of Table V for the superimposed load per square metrefor which the floor is designed set out…

  • General Requirements For No-Fines Concrete

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    (1) The use of no-fines concrete for walling shall be subject to the requirements of the following subsections. (2) No0-fines concrete shall be used only in the bearing-walls not exceeding two storeys in height, in which the superimposed loads on suspended floors do not exceed 250 kilograms per square metre or of dwelling-houses of not…

  • General Requirements For Hollow Glass Blocks

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    (1) Hollow glass blocks used in masonry walls shall be regarded as forming non-load bearing panels in such walls, which, for the purposes of section 1 shall be regarded as openings, and shall comply with the requirements of the following subsections. (2) If the panel of hollow glass blocks exceed six metres in height or…

  • General Requirements For Gypsum Blocks

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    (1) Gypsum blocks shall be used only in non-loading-bearing, interior walls which are not, in the opinion of the local authority, exposed to continuous dampness. (2) Gypsum blocks shall not be laid in any mortar other than gypsum mortar, and shall not be allowed to come into contact with Portland cement and Portland cement products…

  • General Requirements For Soil-Cements Units

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    (1)Soil-cement building-units shall not be use in masonry in the following cases- a) in basement-walls or foundation-walls; b) in lintels and arches; c) in walls exposed, in the opinion of the local authority, to prolonged rainfall or continual dampness; d) in veneered walls. (2) Soil-cement blocks and soil-cement bricks may be used in bearing-walls other…

  • General Requirements For Hollow Masonry Units

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    Where hollow masonry building-units are used in masonry construction, the following requirements shall be complied with- a) where roofs, floors or beams bear directly on walls, piers or columns, either- i) all cavities in the top course of the building -units in the supporting member shall be completely filled with mortar of the same class…

  • Cavity-Walls : General

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    (1) Cavity-walls may be used for load-bearing purposed, subject to the conditions specified in this section. (2) The inner and outer leaves of the shall be separated by a cavity which shall, throughout, be of a width of not less than 50 and not more than 75 millimetres, and, where the damp-proof layer does not…

  • Partition-Walls

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    Every partition-wall shall either be bonded or anchored to cross-walls at both ends as required by section 8 or 19, or shall be so fixed at one end only and at the other be fixed to a framework which, in the opinion of the local authority, provided an adequate lateral support.