Code of Practice: Assessment of the Performance of Housing Units in SA- June 2000

SECTION 1: GENERAL PROVISIONS 1.1
1.1 Scope 1.1
1.2 Definitions and Interpretations 1.1
1.2.1 Contaminated Land 1.1
1.2.2 Dead Load 1.1
1.2.3 Deflection 1.1
1.2.4 Deviation 1.1
1.2.5 Durability 1.1
1.2.6 Expected damage 1.1
1.2.7 Fire load 1.1
1.2.8 Foundation 1.1
1.2.9 Functional requirement 1.1
1.2.10 Ground movement 1.1
1.2.11 Housing units 1.1
1.2.12 Inherent Risk 1.1
1.2.13 Imposed load 1.1
1.2.14 Lifetime 1.2
1.2.15 Load 1.2
1.2.16 Masonry 1.2
1.2.17 Permissible Deviation 1.2
1.2.18 Robustness 1.2
1.2.19 Serviceability 1.2
1.2.20 Site 1.2
1.2.21 Stability 1.2
1.2.22 Strength 1.2
1.2.23 Stormwater 1.2
1.2.24 Structural 1.2
1.2.25 Substructure 1.2
1.2.26 Superstructure 1.2
1.2.27 Technical Performance Levels 1.2
1.2.28 Tolerance 1.2
1.2.29 User Performance Levels 1.2

1.2 Abbreviations 1.2

1.3 Normative References 1.3

SECTION 2: Functional Requirements for Housing Units 2.1

2.1 Structural strength and stability 2.1
2.1.1 General 2.1
2.1.2 Foundation (Substructure) 2.1
2.1.3 Floors and Stairways 2.1
2.1.4 Walls (Superstructure) 2.2
2.1.5 Roofs 2.2

2.2 Serviceability 2.2
2.2.1 General 2.2
2.2.2 Foundation (Substructure) 2.2
2.2.3 Walls (Superstructure) 2.3
2.2.4 Roofs 2.3

2.3 Behaviour in Fire 2.3

2.4 Materials 2.3

2.5 Stormwater drainage 2.3

SECTION 3: User Performance Levels 3.1

3.1 General 3.1

3.2 Basic characteristics 3.1

SECTION 4: Technical Performance Levels 4.1

4.1 Structural Strength and Stability 4.1
4.1.1 Imposed floor and roof loading 4.1
4.1.2 Earthquakes 4.1
4.1.3 Windstorms 4.3
4.1.4 Parapet and balustrade walls 4.4
4.1.5 Robustness (vulnerability to damage) 4.4
4.1.6 Sites underlain by dolomites 4.7

4.2 Serviceability 4.8
4.2.1 General 4.8
4.2.2 Expected damage in walls and floors arising from differential
ground movements 4.10
4.2.3 Expected damage in walls and floors arising from sinkhole formation 4.10

4.3 Fire resistance 4.14

4.4 Protection against harmful phenomena 4.14
4.4.1 General 4.14
4.4.2 Prevention of structural change as a result of condensation 4.14
4.4.3 Abrasion 4.14
4.4.4 Rising damp 4.14
4.4.5 Corrosion 4.14
4.4.6 Radioactive contamination on former waste sites 4.15
4.4.7 Contaminated land 4.15

4.5 Resistance of walls and roofs to rain penetration 4.15

4.6 Durability 4.16

4.7 Accuracy in construction 4.16

4.8 Stormwater drainage 4.16

SECTION 5: Methods for establishing compliance for given performance 5.1

5.1 Structural strength and stability 5.1
5.1.1 General 5.1

5.2 Sites underlain by dolomites 5.1

5.3 Robustness (vulnerability to damage) tests 5.1
5.3.1 Sandbag impact test (soft body impacts) 5.1
5.3.2 Steel Tool Test (hard-body impacts) 5.3
5.3.3 Test for lightweight and medium weight fittings 5.4
5.3.4 Test for heavyweight fittings 5.5
5.3.5 Test for shelving 5.5
5.3.6 Resistance to Door Slamming 5.5
5.3.7 Hail resistance test 5.6

5.4 Condensation assessment 5.6

5.5 Behaviour in fire 5.6

5.6 Durability 5.7

5.7 Levels of specific and total activity of radioactive material and radiation doses 5.7

5.8 Rain penetration test for roofs 5.7

5.9 Rain penetration test for walls 5.8
5.9.1 Standard non-pressurised test 5.8
5.9.2 Standard pressurised test 5.10

APPENDIX 1: South African Codes of Practice

APPENDIX 2: Specialist Literature

APPENDIX 3: Provisions for Alternations and Additions