Regulation of Construction of Underground Structuresof 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-stationarytemperature-humidity conditions as well as in the floors of industrial buildings) in accordance with the current regulatory and technical documentation is considered. Examples of thetechnical 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. Themain 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 basementfloors 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 preparationof solutions, hot boxes of radiochemical laboratories, rooms for amphibious animal and fishes used in experiments. It is proposed to amend the relevant regulatory and technicaldocumentation to further restrict or ban the use of these building materials for any buildings and structures located below the level of the earth surface.