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EDITED BY DAVID ADLER

METRIC

HANDBOOK

PLANNING

AND

DESIGN

DATA

SECOND EDITION

Architectural

Press

ThisCD

Metric Handbook CD-ROM

Planning and Design Data

David Adler BSc DIC CEng MICE

Civil Engineering Consultant

is an invaluable time-saving tool for architects and designers has over 1700 symbols dealing with all the principal building types gives you additional search, select and insert facilities shows you space requirements between furniture as well as standard sizing specifications The drawings can be used with AutoCAD R12, R13, R14 and AutoCAD LT also with MicroStation SE, MicroStation 95 and MicroStation TriForma and IntelliCA D 98. CONTENTS: Notation; Design Data; Sanitary Installations; Transport; Mech anised Movement; External Design; Workplaces; Public Buildings; High Street; Ea ting and Drinking; Entertainment; Sport and Leisure; Learning and Research; Dwell ings

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METRIC HANDBOOK

Planning and Design Data

EDITED BY

David Adler

Architectural Press

OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Architectural PressAn imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann

Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP

A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group

First published as AJ Metric Handbook by The Architectural Press 1968

Second edition 1969

Third edition 1970

First published as New Metric Handbook 1979

Revised reprint 1981

Reprinted 1984, 1985,1988, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997,1998

Second edition (as Metric Handbook) 1999

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Contents

Preface vii

Acknowledgements viii

1 Notation, drawing office practice and dimensional

coordination 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17

18Basic design dataDavid AdlerSanitary installations and cloakroomsAlan Tye Design Ltd

Design for the vehicle

David Adler

Aids to pedestrian movement

David Adler

Landscape design

Michael Littlewood

Terminals and transport interchanges

Chris Blow

Factories

Jolyon Drury

Industrial storage buildings

Jolyon Drury

Farm buildings

John Weller

Offices

DEGW

Law courts

Christopher Rainford

Retail trading

Fred Lawson

Payment and counselling offices

Derek Montefiore

Public service buildings

Derek Montefiore

Primary health care

Ann Noble

Hospitals

Rosemary Glanville and Anthony Howard

Eating and drinking

Fred Lawson, John Rawson and Frank Bradbeer19 Studios for sound and vision

David Binns

20 Auditoria

Ian Appleton and Joe Aveline

21 Community centres

Jim Tanner

22 Swimming

Gerald Perrin

23 Boating

John Rawson

24 Outdoor sports and stadiaPeter Ackroyd and Geraint John

25 Indoor sportsPeter Ackroyd

26 Equestrian design

Rod Sheard and Frank Bradbeer

27 Places of worship

Leslie Fairweather, Atba Al-Samarraie and David Adler

28 Schools

Guy Hawkins

29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37

38Higher educationLaboratoriesTony Branton and Chris Bissell

Museums, art galleries and temporary exhibition spaces

Geoffrey Matthews

Libraries and information centres

Houses and flats

Ian Chown

Student housing and housing for young people

Liz Pride

Homes for old people

Ian Smith

Hotels

Fred Lawson and John Rawson

Tropical design

Martin Evans

Thermal environment

Phil Jones

vi Contents

39 Light

Joe Lynes

40 Sound

Neil Spring

41 Structure

David Adler

42 Fire

Beryl Menzies

43 Security

David Adler44 Access for maintenance45 Service distribution46 Materials

Appendix A The SI system

Appendix B Conversion factors and tables

Appendix C List of contributors

Index

Preface

Seventeen years have passed since the last main revision of the Metric Handbook. While the changeover from the Imperial system of measurement to metric in the building industry has passed into the mists of time (it started over thirty years ago), we are still in the throes of an almost equally traumatic change. This is the change from our British system of standards and codes of practice to ones that will eventually be common over most of Europe, and even in some cases over the whole world. This radical revision of our standards is still in process. While the information in this new edition is as up to date as possible, further changes occur almost daily. While the basic concepts of design are constant so the information should be adequate for initial design purposes, the latest and fullest information should be consulted before finalisation. The bibliographies at the end of most of the chapters should assist in this. In a handbook covering such a wide field as this, it is inevitable that not everything can be as detailed as one would prefer. Statements are made that may require qualification. When frequently repeated, it becomes tedious to continually read terms such as generally, normally, in many cases. The actual use of such terms has been restricted, but the reader should treat all statements made in the book as covered by a general proviso. Each situation is unique, and its problems may demand solutions that break rules found in sources such as this. Very many people have assisted me in the preparation of this

new edition, and I have built upon the many others who wereresponsible for material in earlier editions, going back to the threespecial editions of the Architects" Journal in 1970 that started it

off. I thank all of those that I remember in the Acknowledgements which follow, and apologise to those whom I fail to mention. Fuller details of major contributors than can be included in the chapter headings will be found in Appendix C at the end of the book. This new edition marks the honoured passing of the doyen of architectural reference books. I refer to Planning, The Architect"s Handbook which is now not to be republished since the recent death of its distinguished last editor, Derek Mills CBE. Planning evolved in the 1930s from weekly notes in the Architect and Building News, and was a vade-mecum for generations of architects - I myself found it invaluable as an engineering student in the fifties. I have incorporated some of its material in this new edition of the Metric Handbook, and I hope that this, while something of a johnny-come-lately, will be regarded a worthy successor. A project of this scale is bound to contain errors, and I would be grateful to be informed of any that are found. However, neither I, the contributors nor the publishers can accept responsi- bility for loss or damage resulting from inaccuracies or omissions.

David Adler

November 1998

Acknowledgements

Organizations who have contributed and/or helped are: the British Standards Institution, Department of Environment, Trans- port and the Regions, Health and Safety Executive, Institution of Structural Engineers, Steel Construction Institute, the late lamented Greater London Council, County Councils of Cheshire, Devon, Essex and Lancashire, and the Cyclists' Touring Club. Individuals who have made substantial contributions to the book are generally named in the chapter headings. In addition, the editor has received help from a large number of other people over the years for this and for previous editions. He wishes to express his sincere thanks to all of these. Some of those in the list below are unfortunately no longer with us, but deserve to be remembered. If anyone is omitted from the list (which is in alphabetical order), my apologies - it will be due to a fallible memory!

Peter Ackroyd

Don Adie

Tanya Bocking

Brian Barclay

Brian Brookes

Geoff Burt

Ruth Cannock

John Carter

Mike Cash

Richard Chisnell

Mike ChrimesRenata CorbaniSusan CunninghamBetsy Dinesen

Francis Duffy

Peter Forbes

Brenda Goddard

Selwyn Goldsmith

Godfrey Golzen

John Gridley

Simon Inglis

Geraint JohnJohn JordanJohn Keenan

Alexander Kira

David Knipe

Leslie Knopp

Sarah Kors

Mary Langshaw

David Lush

Jim McCluskey

Tony McKendry

Jay McMahan

Bruce Martin

Colin Moore

John Nelson

Anthony Noakes

George Noble

John NoblePaul Noble

Julian Oseley

Oliver Palmer

Tim Pharoah

Esmond Reid

David Schreiber

Steve Scrivens

Jan Sliwa

Peter Stubbs

Patricia Tutt

Maritz Vandenberg

Neil Warnock-Smith

John Weller

Jeremy Wilson

David Wolchover

Zoë Youd

A special acknowledgement to my wife Jill Adler, who took on the mammoth task of proof-reading. Extracts from British Standards are reproduced with the permission of BSI under licence number PD/19990450. Complete copies can be obtained by post from BSI Customer Services,

389 Chiswick High Road, London, W4 4AL.

Crown Copyright is reproduced with the permission of the

Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

1 Notation, drawing office practice and

dimensional coordination

CI/SfB (1976 revised) (A3t) and (F43)

UDC: 744 and 69.032

KEY POINT:

For clear understanding the conventions must be followed.

Contents

1 Notation

2 Paper sizes

3 Ordnance survey maps

4 Drawings

5 Measuring instruments

6 Dimensional coordination

7 Planning

8 References

1 NOTATION

1.01 Decimal marker

The decimal marker (full stop) on the baseline is the standard decimal point in the UK; but the marker at the halfway position is also acceptable. It should be noted that Continental practice is to use the comma on the baseline. When the value to be expressed is less than unity it should be preceded by zero (e.g. 0.6 not .6). Whole numbers may be expressed without a decimal marker. The appropriate number of decimal places should be chosen depending on the circumstances in which the resulting value is to be used.

Thousand marker

To avoid confusion with the Continental decimal marker, no thousand marker should be used. Where legibility needs to be

Table I Summary of symbols and notation

improved a space can be left in large groups of digits at every thousand point. Where there are only four digits, a space between the first digit and the others is not desirable (e.g. 15 000, 1500). (However, the comma is used in currency, e.g. £115,000.)

1.02 Symbols

1The main symbols should be used as shown in Table I. The same

symbol, i.e. m, mm, kg, should be used for singular and plural values (1 kg, 10 kg), and no full stops or other punctuation marks should be used after the symbol unless it occurs at the end of a sentence. Use a 'solidus' or sloping line as a separator between numerator and denominator, i.e. 3 kg/m 3 or 3 kg/cu m (three kilograms per cubic metre).

2 A single space should separate figures from symbols: 10 m, not

10m.

3 The unit should be written in full if there is any doubt about the

symbol. For example, the recognised unit symbol 1 for the unit litre can be confused with the number 1 and it is less confusing to write litre in full. Also, the unit symbol t for tonne may in some circumstances be confused with the imperial ton, and the unit tonne should then be written in full.

4 When symbols are raised to various powers, it is only the

symbol which is involved and not the number attached to it.

Thus 3 m

3 equals 3 (m) 3 and not 3 m ´ 3 m ´ 3 m (i.e. the answer is 3 cubic metres and not 27 cubic metres).

5 Difficulty may be experienced when reproducing the squaring

and cubing indices m 2 or mm 2 ,and m 3 or mm 3 . In such cases, units may be written with the indices on the line instead of as superscripts (m2, m3). Alternatively, particularly when the Quantity Description Correct unit Acceptable Incorrect use Notes symbol alternatives

Numerical values 0.10.010.001.1

.01 .001When the value is less than unity, the decimal point should be preceded by zero

Length metremillimetrem m. M meter

mm m.m. mm.

MM M.M.

milli-metre

Area square

metrem 2 sq m m.sq smsq.m sq m.

Volume cubic metre m

3 cubic millimetre mm 3 litre (liquid volume) 1, ltrcu m cu mmcu.m m.cu. cu.mm. mm.cub. mm.cu.

1. lit. Preferably write litre in full to avoid 'l' being

taken for figure 'one'

Mass (weight) tonne t

kilogram kg gram gtonKg kG kg. kilogramme g. G.Preferably write tonne in full to avoid being mistaken for imperial ton

Force newton N N. n Note that when used in written text, the unit ofnewton is spelled out in full and begins with a

lower-case letter 'n'. When used as unit symbol, in calculation or in a formula it is then expressed as capital letter 'N' 1-1

1-2 Notation, drawing office practice and dimensional coordination

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general public is involved, the abbreviations 'sq' and 'cu' may be used (sq m, cu m).

6 Units should not be hyphenated (milli-metres).

1.03 Notation

1189
594
297

1 As a rule the sizes of components should be expressed in

consistent and not mixed units, e.g. 1500 mm ´ 600 mm ´

25 mm thick and not 1.5 m ´ 600 mm ´ 25 mm thick. However,

for long thin components such as timbers, it is preferable to mix the units, e.g. 100 mm ´ 75 mm ´ 10 m long.

2 It is important to distinguish clearly between the metric tonne

and the imperial ton. The tonne is equivalent to 2204.6 lb while the ton is equal to 2240 lb - a difference of 1.6 per cent.

3 The interval of temperature should be referred to as degree

Celsius (°C) and not as centigrade. The word centigrade is used by the Continental metric countries as a measure of plane angle and equals 1/10 000th part of a right angle. 148
14874

420210

Examples

185

Correct use

33 m

10.100 m

50.750 kgIncorrect use3 cm 3 mm

10 m 100 mm*

50 kg 750g

*Note. Some metric values are expressed differently in certain countries. The v alue of 10.100 m, for example, could mean ten thousand one hundred metres and not ten metres one hundred millimetres, as in the UK.

2 PAPER SIZES

The International A-series of paper sizes is used for all drawings and written material. eq

2.01 Sizes in the A-series

The A range is derived from a rectangle A0, 1.1, of area 1 m 2 with sides x and y such that x:y = 1:Ö2 (i.e. x = 841 mm; y = 1189 mm). The other sizes in the series are derived downwards by pro- gressively halving the size above across its larger dimension. The proportions of the sizes remain constant, 1.2.

2.04 Drawing boards

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