Building Research Station

Workers in other Government Research Stations and the Universities who have collaborated with us are R. P. Miller, D. Clinton, Dr T. I. Barry, Dr I. Seed (National Physical Laboratory) K. E. Fletcher (Buildings Research Station) Miss D. Poynter (Warren Spring Laboratory) Professor L. Holliday, Dr J. H. Elliott, Dr P. R. Hornsby, Dr K. A. Hodd, Dr A. L. Reader (Brunei University) R. Mansion, Dr B. F. Sanson, Dr W. M. Allen, P. J. Gleed (Institute for Research on Animal Diseases) Professor Braden (London Hospital) A. C. Shorthall (Birmingham University), I. M. Brook (University of Sheffield) and R. Billington (Institute of Dental Surgery, London). 

Ballistics Research Laboratory, Aberdeen, Md brown brothers British Patent British Rayon Research Association Brown Sharpe Manufacturing Co (wire gauge) Buildings Research Station (Brit)... 

In July 1963, four more or less identical buildings were being constructed at Aldershot as part of a large project for the Ministry of Public Buildings and Works. One of them was to be an officers mess, but unfortunately it collapsed before completion. The Building Research Station prepared a technical statement about the collapse for the Minister, by order of the House of Commons [108]. 

The conclusions were summarised as follows by tiie Building Research Station ... 

Building Research Station, The Collapse of a Precast Concrete Building, H.M.S.O., London, 1963. 

Bate, S. C. C, Design Philosophy andBasic Assumptions, Building Research Station Current Paper 34/72, August 1973. 

Mitchell, G. R., Woodgate, R. W., Floor Loadings in Office Buildings - the Results of a Survey, Building Research Station CurrentPaper 3/71, January 1971. 

Midgley, H.G., and Dharmadhikari, P.V., "The Point Counting Microscopic Method for the Quantitative Determination of the Silicate Phases in Portland Cement Clinker," Building Research Current Papers, Research Series 13, Building Research Station, London, England, 1964,7 pp. 

Nurse, R.W. Midgley, H.G. and Welch, J.H., Polymorphism of Tricalcium Silicate and Its Significance in Cement Hydration, Great Britain Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Building Research Station, Note A95,1961,10 pp. 

Work undertaken by Majumdar et al [26,27] at The Building Research Station, Garston showed that the carbon fiber possessed excellent durability in a cement slurry with a modulus of rupture (maximum stress) of 33 MPa and an Izod impact strength of 4 kJm for a loading of 1.3% fiber. 

Moore, J. F. A. (1981). The performance of cavity wall-ties. Building Research Station, Report CP3/81, 26 pp. 

V-bricks. A series of perforated clay building bricks designed by the Building Research Station, England, in 1959-60 the name derives from the fact that the perforations are Vertical. 

Building Science Abstracts (1926-1976). In part continued in ICONDA, this abstract series created by the U.K. Building Research Station is very useful for tracing articles on building science (e.g., properties of materials). 

Results are presented here for two types of stone, namely Portland limestone and Monks Park limestone. The structure of these materials has been characterised in the past (Honeyborne and Harris 1959). Both of these rock types are composed of small spherical CaCOa particles, known as oolites, in a calcium carbonate rich cement. The oolites themselves have been formed by nucleation in a CaCOa rich oceanic environment. Both of the stones are carboniferous in origin. Tiles 50x50x8 mm were supplied by the Building Research Station (BRS) in the following condition ... 

Table 1. Specified gases measured by the Building Research Station and their physiological effects...

It is necessary for the Staff of the Geotechnics Division of the Building Research Station in some of their in situ soil investigations to work below ground in boreholes 1 m in diameter up to 24 m deep. It is therefore vital that the atmosphere in the borehole supports and continues to support human life. For this reason all holes are ventilated from the surface and frequent gas checks are made on the borehole atmosphere before and during the time a person is in the hole. 

Remote sampling is used by the Building Research Station enabling the borehole atmosphere to be tested before a person enters it. A sample of the borehole atmosphere is sucked through a suitable tube by means of an air pump to a convenient sampling point. The system includes a vacuum gauge to indicate leaks or blockages in the tube (see Fig. 5). 

Table 3. Air samples from boreholes at Building Research Station, received 4 March, 1971 (National Coal Board — Yorkshire Regional Laboratory)...

H.G. Allen, The purpose and methods of fibre reinforcement, in Prospects of Fibre Reinforced Construction Materials , in Proc. Int. Building Exhibition Conference, Sponsored by the Building Research Station, London, 1971, pp. 3-14. 

Sewell, E. C., 1952. Theory of differential thermal analysis. I. Research Note, Building Research Station, D.S.I.R. 

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