Elements of buildings
This article lists the major elements of common building types. Click on the links for more information:
- Basements.
- Beams.
- Building envelope.
- Building fabric.
- Building services.
- Ceilings.
- Cladding.
- Columns.
- Cooling.
- Doors.
- Drainage.
- Escalators.
- Façade.
- Finishes.
- Fittings.
- Fixtures.
- Floor.
- Foundations.
- Heating.
- Infrastructure.
- Insulation.
- Landscape.
- Lifts.
- Lighting.
- Ramps.
- Roofs.
- Sanitaryware.
- Spaces / rooms.
- Stairs.
- Structure.
- Ventilation.
- Walls.
- Windows and glazing.
[edit] Find out more
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
- BCIS elements.
- BIM classification.
- BRE Building Elements series (AP 243).
- Common arrangement of work sections classification.
- Construction Project Information Committee.
- Elements of a window.
- Elements of structure in buildings.
- Elements of the built environment.
- New Rules of Measurement.
- Standard Method of Measurement (SMM7).
- Types of building.
- Uniclass.
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