Description

Published annually in November.

This volume contains 181 standards.

Volumes 04.11 and 04.12 contain 270 tests and practices that set down standard procedures for measuring the performance of buildings, including: air leakage and ventilation performance; building economics; building preservation; durability performance of building constructions; structural performance; exterior insulation and finish systems; lead hazards associated with buildings; and performance of roof systems, windows, and doors.

Volume 04.12 also includes standards that address property management systems. It includes the latest standard practice for establishing the guiding principles of property management, which provides property managers with the means to examine the quality, quantity, and substance of a current or proposed system, as well as the context to determine how each element contributes to an efficient and cost-effective operation. Other standards cover the assessment of loss, damage, and destruction of property, assets, or material; physical inventory of durable, moveable property; administrative control of property, and traditional property management definitions and terms.

New to Volume 04.12 are all standards under the jurisdiction of NEW Committee F36 on Technology and Underground Utilities. These standards cover rehabilitation of sewers using chemical grouting techniques; seismic fragility of water conveyance systems; deployment of optical fiber systems in natural gas pipelines; and water line rehabilitation.