The Guide for Building Inspections of all types of Buildings.

Apartment and Office Buildings,

Commercial and Industrial Buildings,

Warehouses and Manufacturing plants.

Shopping Centers and Malls.

Condominiums and multyfamily buildings.

Yes, all about Building Inspections with reasons.

The whole R.C.I.

A lot can be said about Properties and Buildings.

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Before that, people insist more on the messenger than on "the message", so here it is:

Mc-Gill Montreal, 1 year in Architecture. (Did not work With Anthony and Cleopatra Old English Literature)

B. Ap. Sc. at Polytechnique, Montreal in 1964 (Génie Civil)Diplôme d'Ingénieur, 26 mai 1964.

The Engineering Institute of Canada, March 28th 1969.

After design and construction and Operation of mainly Water Supply and Sewage Treatment Plants from Montreal and Paris for clients around the world.

Construction in mining, bridge construction, building construction, enlargement of an Hospital in three phases and major revamping of heating, air conditioning and ventilation. Arenas design and built, oil truck trailer washing facilities, two tire manufacturing plants in Canada, manufacturing and finally representation and design for many internationally well known Consulting Engineers.

And finally Home and Building Inspection part time in 1981 and "acting as a "Home and Building Inspector" full time since 1984.

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So! Back to Building Inspection.

General Comments will be available on the following kinds of Properties in a near future. What to do and what NOT to do!

1 - Shopping Centers.

2 - Malls.

3 - Commercial Buildings.

4 - Office Buildings

5 - Apartment Buildings.

6 - High-Rises.

7 - Revenue Properties.

Property inspectors should be hired after studying this section.

8 - Warehouses.

Even food, storage and industrial Warehouses should have a Warehouse Building Inspection performed. Items 10 - to 14 - below may apply to them.

9 - Manufacturing Plants.

10 – Retirement homes.

A – Wood Frames

B – Concrete floors and metal studs.

11 - Unoccupied plants.

Industrial Warehouse,

Commercial Buildings and

Empty Structures.

A - Metal.

B - Brick and Double brick with Headers. C - Any post and Beam structure. D - Concrete blocks.

E - Adobe

12 - Any building before Vapor Barriers where Invented and made available in 1954. Their use in Walls and Ceilings.

13 - Any property with Steel decks and no Attic.

14 - Any property with no insulation on the roof deck or under the roof deck.

15 - Multy-Family.

16 - Multi-story apartment buildings.

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Now, we will study the different parts of Homes and Buildings.

Roofs - walls - foundations - and basements.

Lets go!

and begin by the roofs.