 | Appropriate Building Materials: a Catalogue of Potential Solutions (SKAT, 1988, 430 p.) |
 |  | (introduction...) |
| | Preface |
|  | Introduction |
| | Aim of this catalogue |
| | Choice of appropriate building materials |
| | Acknowledgements |
| | Fundamental information on building materials |
| | Stone |
| | Earth, soil, laterite |
| | Soil stabilizers |
| | Fired clay products |
| | Binders |
| | Lime |
| | Cement |
| | Pozzolanas |
| | Concrete |
| | Ferrocement |
| | Fibre and micro concrete |
| | Natural fibres, grasses, leaves |
| | Bamboo |
| | Timber |
| | Metals |
| | Glass |
| | Plastics |
| | Sulphur |
| | Wastes |
| | Fundamental information on building elements |
| | Foundations |
| | Floors and ceilings |
| | Walls |
| | Roofs |
| | Building systems |
| | Fundamental information on protective measures |
| | Biological agents |
| | Fire |
| | Wind and rain |
| | Earthquakes |
| | Examples of foundation materials |
| | Natural stone foundations |
| | Rammed earth foundations |
| | Burnt brick foundations |
| | Concrete foundations |
| | Split-bamboo piles |
| | Wooden post foundation |
| | Examples of floor materials |
| | Stabilized earth floors |
| | Burnt clay and concrete components |
| | Precast concrete ceiling components |
| | Bamboo floors |
| | Timber floors |
| | Sulphur concrete floors |
| | Common floor finishes |
| | Examples of wall materials |
| | Stone masonry blocks walls |
| | Rammed earth walls |
| | Compressed soil blocks walls |
| | Bamboo reinforced earth walls |
| | Burnt clay brick walls |
| | Concrete hollow block walls |
| | Bamboo walls |
| | Timber panel walls |
| | Sulphur concrete walls |
| | Walls from agro-waste |
| | Examples of roof materials |
| | Earth reel roofs |
| | Soil brick roof |
| | Clay tile roofs |
| | Gypsum-sisal conoid |
| | Precast concrete channel roof |
| | Ferrocement roofs |
| | Corrugated fibre concrete roofing sheets |
| | Fibre and micro concrete tiles |
| | Durable thatch with stiff-stem grasses |
| | Bamboo roof structure |
| | Pole timber roof structures |
| | Bamboo and wood shingles |
| | Corrugated metal sheet roofiing |
| | Examples of building systems |
| | Mud brick vaults and domes |
| | Earthquake resistant mud/bamboo structures |
| | Adobe brick house |
| | Modular framed earth block construction |
| | Lok Bild system |
| | Concrete panel house |
| | Ferrocement housing units |
| | Fibracreto building system |
| | Bamboocrete construction |
| | Bamboo houses |
| | Prefabricated timber hut |
| | Prefabricated wooden house |
| | Timber houses for flood areas |
| | Rha-lime prototype house |
| | Annexes |
| | Machines and equipment |
| | Conversion factors for si-units |
| | Useful addresses |
| | Bibliography |
| | Abbreviations |
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