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Moving structures

By: Series: Architects' Journal ; 14 September 2000, 42-45(3)Publication details: 2000Subject(s): Summary: Suggests that expectations of building performance have become unreasonably high and that many property owners are becoming too concerned with movement that doesn't actually threaten a building's use or safety. This article focuses on structural movement and discusses material decay, subsoil and foundations, instability and assessment of stability.

Suggests that expectations of building performance have become unreasonably high and that many property owners are becoming too concerned with movement that doesn't actually threaten a building's use or safety. This article focuses on structural movement and discusses material decay, subsoil and foundations, instability and assessment of stability.