Questions to ask the project engineer

This book has 572 criteria labelled ask the project engineer, spread across 61 stages.

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• P34 Budget, finance and choosing a contractor — 11 items
• P00 Documents, drawings and the contract before work starts — 5 items
• P56 Sun, wind, rain and site planning at the design stage — 2 items
• P55 Soil investigation before designing the foundations — 2 items
• P58 Temporary water and electricity during construction — 3 items
• P01 Setting out the building and checking the property lines — 5 items
• P40 Floor level, land filling and flooding — 12 items
• P02-01 Inspecting piles before driving — what to check when the delivery truck arrives — 2 items
• P02-02 Pile rig, hammer and helmet — the wrong tools mean wrong work from the start — 1 item
• P02-03 Checking pile verticality — why you need to look along 2 axes, and how — 1 item
• P02-04 The driving record — the only evidence that proves the piles can carry the load — 7 items
• P02-06 Pile cut-off level — added and subtracted from what, and how to check it's right — 1 item
• P02-08 Tests and documents — what you must receive before paying the piling instalment — 1 item
• P03 Footing excavations, existing soil and sand bedding — 13 items
• P04 Reinforcement for footings and stub columns — 3 items
• P05 Formwork for footings, stub columns and ground beams — 3 items
• P06 Pouring day for footings, stub columns and ground beams — 6 items
• P07 Ground-floor structural columns — steel, formwork and pouring — 10 items
• P08 Ground-floor beams and slab — precast planks, cast-in-place slabs and pipes under the floor — 41 items
• P09 Upper-floor structure — columns, beams and slabs you have to climb up to see — 15 items
• P30 Stairs, guardrails and designing for older people — 4 items
• P10 Steel roof structure — steel, welds, paint and fixings — 19 items
• P11 Roofing, fascias and waterproofing — 20 items
• P31 Heat insulation and ventilation under the roof — 8 items
• P12 Bricklaying — chalk lines, stiffener columns, lintels and what disappears under the render — 17 items
• P13 Chasing walls, embedding pipes, running wiring and the systems hidden in walls — 14 items
• P46 Sound insulation between rooms — 13 items
• P14 Rendering walls — screeds, corner beads, anti-crack mesh and cracks — 13 items
• P15 Installing frames, doors and windows, and waterproofing around frames — 9 items
• P16 Waterproofing bathrooms, balconies and roof decks — 12 items
• P42 Sanitary vent pipes — 7 items
• P38 Kitchen gas system — 17 items
• P44 Laundry room and washing machine — 11 items
• P17 Tiling and floor finishes — 18 items
• P18 Ceilings and built-in work — 17 items
• P19 Painting — 8 items
• P27 Interior finishing and built-ins — 20 items
• P20 Sanitaryware, light fittings and electrical accessories — 9 items
• P39 Water heaters and hot water — 14 items
• P32 Air conditioner — 10 items