PROCEEDINGS OF THE BRITISH MASONRY SOCIETY
MASONRY (5)
THE CAVITY WALL CONTROVERSY
No. 5, May 1993, Edited by: H W H West
Contents
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1 Have We Got It All Wrong?
R J M Sutherland 1
2 Some Aspects of Thick Skin Walling
S E Bell and M E A Backhouse 9
3 Continental Cavity Walls are (Sometimes) Different
G Peirs 11
4 Examples of 9 Inch Brickwork
Bryn Bird 14
5 The Use of Brickwork as a Veneer – a Fixing Specialist’s Viewpoint
J A Mindenhall 17
6 “Horses for Courses” in the Choice of Wall Materials
Basil Gillinson 19
7 The Structural Performance of Cavity Walls under Vertical Load
Professor A W Hendry 21
8 Some Thoughts on Single Leaf Masonry
D Foster 27
9 Solid Walls versus Cavity Walls – Some Observations
Professor J J Roberts 31
10 Cavity Walls – Still a Good Solution
R C de Vekey 35
11 Cavity and Solid Walls in Aircrete Masonry
P S Hazael 39
12 Australian Experience of Nine-inch Brickwork Watertight for 130 Years
Tom McNeilly 41
12 Papers, 44 pp, published in 1993