Balconies, Terraces and Walkways.

This qualification provides knowledge and understanding relating to balconies, terraces and walkways in residential properties. It explains how balconies, terraces and walkways impact and potentially compromise occupant and visitor safety. It also covers the complex structure as well as their function and durability, and how defects and abnormalities may affect them. It gives consideration to properties which have been converted from commercial to domestic use.

Learning Outcomes

• The ways balconies, terraces an walkways may impact and potentially compromise occupant and visitor safety including hazards
• The complex structural factors that must be taken into consideration to ensure balconies, terraces and walkways are safe, functional and durable
• What is meant by building pathology in the context of balconies, terraces and walkways and the defects, damages and abnormalities that may affect them
• The issues that should be taken into account when a property has been converted from commercial use to residential
• The ongoing management concerns that may arise from residential property being adjacent to commercial properties