Approved Document E Nitin Bhudia What is Approved

Approved Document E Nitin Bhudia

What is Approved Part E covers the resistance to noise. Walls, floors and ceilings must resist the passage of sound so that the noise does not disturb the neighbours. The approved building regulation part e was introduced on the 1 st of July 2003 and it details the new acoustic performance requirements in England wales for residential dwellings, schools and other construction types. Along with new performance requirements, Part E also establishes a need for pre-completion testing to enforce these standards and suggest and range of construction for appropriate elements. The key elements for residential dwellings are separating walls and floors between dwellings and internal partitions with dwellings

High performance separating walls can provide up to an estimated 90 minutes fire protection to structural steel enclosed within its cavity, whilst maintaining the room-toroom acoustic performance Twin-frame design allows services and structural steel to easily be accommodated within the partition Reduced sound transmission is achieved by a high degree of isolation between the two frameworks and the use of high performance Gyproc plasterboard linings Additional acoustic performance can be achieved with the application of Thistle Multi -Finish plaster skim Separating walls in building plus the junctions between these separating walls and other building elements, including corridor walls, including the following types: • Solid masonry • Cavity masonry Independent composite panels, and plasterboard • Framed walls with an absorbent material • Masonry-between walls • Internal walls built of concrete or Air Crete block wall with a plaster or plasterboard finish on both sides • Internal walls including timber or metal frames with plasterboard linings, and with or without absorbent material • The plasterboard linings on walls • Requirements for cavity widths, and wall ties, in cavity walls • Junction requirements for internal walls

Floor constructions Separating floors, including the junctions between separating floors and other building elements, including the following types of floors: • • • Beam and block floors. Concrete base with ceiling, and soft floor covering, or floating floor Timber frame base with ceiling and platform floor Concrete planks Concrete beams with infilling blocks, bonded screed plus a ceiling Timber or metal joist wood based board and plasterboard ceiling, with an absorbent material Internal timber and concrete floors Floating floors Junction requirements for internal floors Ceiling treatments on the ceilings below