§ Mr. Eadieasked the Secretary of State for Scotland, (1) for how long the present building code in Scotland in relation to resistance to wind pressure per mile per hour for housing building has been in operation; and what was the previous rule regarding resistance to wind pressure per mile per hour before the amendment of the code;
(2) what under his regulations is the prescribed resistance to wind pressure per mile per hour in the new town of Livingston for industrialised house building.
§ Mr. RossThe wind pressures which buildings must be designed to resist are laid down in Chapter V of the British Standards Institution's Code of Practice CP3 of 1952, as subsequently amended. This Code was applied in the model building byelaws issued by my Department in 1954 and became mandatory throughout Scotland when the Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations superseded local byelaws in 1964.
It is not possible to give wind loadings for particular areas or types of buildings as they depend on the degree of exposure of individual buildings and have to be calculated separately for each.