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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References Shrink Swell |
BRE, 1993. BRE Digest 240: Low-rise buildings on
shrinkable clay soils: Part 1. BRE Press.
BRE, 1991. BRE Digest 361: Why do buildings crack.
BRE Press.
BRE, 1990. BRE Digest 241: Low-rise buildings on
shrinkable clay soils: Part 2. BRE Press.
BRE, 1996. BRE Digest 412. Desiccation in clay
soils. BRE Press.
NERC Planet Earth Autumn 2004 - Cracking Open
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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References Soils Testing |
BS 1377-2:1990 Methods of test for soils for civil engineering purposes.
Classification tests.
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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References Trees |
NHBC 1995. Building near trees, NHBC Standards, Chapter 4.2. NHBC, Amersham,
England.
BRE. 1999. BRE Digest 298: Low-rise building: the influence of trees in clay
soils. BRE Press.
City Of Westminster Guidance Note: Trees and other planting on development
sites.
West
Wiltshire County Council Guidance Note: Trees
Wessex Council
Guidance Note: Trees and Buildings.
Broadland District Council Guidance Note: Planting new trees near existing
buidlings.
Planning
Applications: Tree Roots.
London Tree Officers Association: Risk
Limitation Strategy.
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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References Overseas
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Government of New
South Wales, Australia: Cracks in
building due to Shrink/Swell in Clay Soils.
US
Army Corps of Engineers: Foundations
in expansive soils.
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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References Planning |
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Government – Planning, building and the Environment –England and Wales
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Planning
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https://planningportal.gov.uk/england/genpub/en/1115314018288.html
Scotland
http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/156686/0042109.pdf
Subsidence
http://www.geo-serv.com/subsidence.html
New houses
http://www.nhbc.co.uk/NHBCpublications/LiteratureLibrary/HomeownerDocuments/filedownload,15900,en.pdf
Overseas
http://www.wvgs.wvnet.edu/www/geohaz/geohaz3.htm
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Swelling & Shrinking Essential References @ Lyell
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 Lyell
Collection papers on shrink / swell from Engineering Group Special
Publications and the Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology.
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