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