News & Information. In order to help building surveyors to identify when ground movement had occurred and when structural intervention was necessary, BRE carried out an assessment of 130 properties that had suffered from subsidence. The results of the study enabled a way of categorising cracks to be developed.
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Examines the causes of cracking in buildings and shows, with descriptions and illustrations, the visible results of a wide range of problems. Does not contain a complete solution to every cracking problem, but aims to broaden the understanding of the factors responsible and increase the likelihood of correct diagnosis and repair.
Sadgrove, R.
BRE
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