STRUCTURES INSIDE A LARGER BUILDING.

Occasionally an assessor will come across buildings that utilise unusual and non compliant methods of construction.

One such example recently encountered was the erection inside an existing portal framed metal clad agricultural building of an insulated timber framed structure which provided a conditioned, dry, retail space for an antiques sales business. The internal structure was not connected at any point to the external structure, except at the two doorways, with a gap of between 300mm and over 1.5m between the two structures around their perimeters.

The ceiling of the ‘antiques showroom’ also interfaced to the agricultural shed with both boarded structural floor areas as well as unboarded lightweight ceiling areas. All of the ceiling was well insulated with loose laid rock wool type material above the showroom space below.

The flooring of the whole building was the original PIS (poured in situ) concrete laid at the time of first construction (and therefore assumed to be uninsulated).

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