Regulation of Construction of Underground Structures of Buildings and Facilities from Stone Materials

The use of stone masonry in underground structures of buildings and facilities (cellars and ground floors, inspection manholes, pools, saunas, and other spaces with non-stationary temperature-humidity conditions as well as in the floors of industrial buildings) in accordance with the current regulatory and technical documentation is considered. Examples of the technical inspection of different buildings and structures made of brick masonry with defects and damages in the form of cracks, salt stains, corrosion processes are presented. The main attention is paid to the structures of foundations, cellar walls, sewer and other manholes. The technical regulatory information on the list of admissible premises in the basement floors is presented. It includes boilers, pump, compressor rooms, lift machine rooms, parking areas, bathrooms, shower cabins, laundry rooms, therapeutic pools, vegetables storerooms, room for equipment of fire extinguishing system, saunas (dry heat baths), heating units, distillation rooms, washing rooms, laundries, hydrotherapy rooms, rooms for preparation of solutions, hot boxes of radiochemical laboratories, rooms for amphibious animal and fishes used in experiments. It is proposed to amend the relevant regulatory and technical documentation to further restrict or ban the use of these building materials for any buildings and structures located below the level of the earth surface.

S.V. FEDOSOV¹, Doctor of Sciences (Engineering), Academician of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction Sciences (RAACS), President (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.);
S.A. MALBIEV², Candidate of Sciences (Engineering), Chief Specialist (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) 

¹ Ivanovo State Polytechnic University (20, 8 Marta Street, 153037, Ivanovo, Russian Federation) 
² PCC Eurasia LLC (5, bldg.1, Patriarshiye Ponds, Ermolayevsky pereulok,129343, Moscow, Russian Federation)

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