Surface
PAS 9980:2022, Fire risk appraisal of external wall construction and cladding of existing blocks of flats – Code of practice, published by BSI Standards Limited in 2022, defines a surface as the: ‘outside part or uppermost layer’.
Articles about surfaces on Designing Buildings include:
- Digital surface model
- Finished surface
- Floor surface
- Fragile surface
- Porous surface
- Sea surface temperature
- Suitable ground surface
- Surface diffusion
- Surface drainage
- Surface finishes
- Surface mounted
- Surface remains
- Surface water
- Surface water activity
- Surface water body
- Surface water cooling
- Surface water management action plan
- Surface water management plan
- Surface water run off
See also: Substrate.
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