Patio

Patio

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Published in Ray Tricker, Samantha Alford, Building Regulations in Brief, 2022

To avoid flooding, patios should slope towards permeable ground or be made of pervious materials such as reinforced grass or gravel, porous concrete/asphalt or permeable materials (e.g. clay bricks or concrete blocks). These products will allow water to flow through joints or voids.

Seismic Safety Assessment of Mixed Timber-Masonry Historical Building: An Example in Lima, Peru

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Published in Journal of Earthquake Engineering, 2021

Alberto Barontini, Paulo B. Lourenço

The brick base course raises up above the foundation to a height 0.7–1.0 m, from the finish floor level. Fired brick surrounds also the arch door opening on the patio and on the streets, with a width ranging from 0.42 to 0.98 m, through the full depth of the wall. The first story wall has an overall height of 5.2 m from finish floor level. External walls are the thickest, ranging from 0.80 to 1.25 m, whereas the interior walls are the thinnest, ranging from 0.60 to 0.80 m.

Building performance and end-user interaction in passive solar and low energy housing developments in Scotland

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Published in Architectural Science Review, 2018

Tim Sharpe, Gráinne McGill, Rosalie Menon, Paul Farren

External air supply to the sun spaces is provided via patio doors and a single first-floor window, as illustrated in Figure 6. External trickle vents are also installed at site CS-B. Movement of air from the sunspace into the dwelling is also via trickle vents above the internal doors in site CS-B, but at site CS-A ventilation of the sunspaces is reliant solely on occupant behaviour in the form of opening doors and/or windows.

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