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These are the standards in the SynC Standards library that cover Masonry. Each one is a complete, plain-language specification: the scope it applies to, the requirements that govern it, and a structured equipment datasheet listing the values a project has to decide — ratings, materials, setpoints, and the standards each is verified against. All of it is free to read without an account and published under CC BY-SA 4.0.
A standard usually carries several topics, so most of the entries below also appear under neighbouring subjects. The topics each one carries are listed on its own page.
Seamless membranes built up in place from a liquid on concrete and masonry surfaces that enclose or protect occupied space: plaza and amenity decks, planters and landscaped areas, split-slab and topping-slab assemblies, between-slab and under-topping interior conditions, parking structure intermediate and roof levels with an exposed traffic-bearing membrane, and below-grade walls where a monolithic bonded membrane is selected instead of sheet. Covers hot fluid-applied rubberized asphalt and the cold liquid-applied chemistries (polyurethane, polymethyl methacrylate, polyurea, and polymer-modified asphalt emulsion), in both the buried configuration under a separate wearing course and the exposed configuration with an integral wearing surface, together with substrate preparation, primer, reinforcement, thickness control, protection course, drainage composite, root barrier, terminations, drains and penetrations, integrity testing, and warranty.
Interior and protected exterior natural dimension-stone tile, cut-to-size stone, and gauged thin stone slab — granite, marble, limestone, travertine, slate, quartzite, sandstone, serpentine, onyx, soapstone, and basalt — set on floors, walls, wainscots, stair treads and risers, thresholds, base, and countertops. Covers stone type and the governing ASTM dimension-stone material specifications, physical-property and abrasion testing, slip resistance, form, dimensions, and surface finish, pattern and vein match, setting method and bonding mortar, crack-isolation and waterproof membranes, joint filler and joint width, movement-joint design, substrate preparation and moisture, installation, field inspection, cleaning, and sealing.
The assembled unit masonry wall. Load-bearing walls, shear walls, non-load-bearing partitions, composite and multi-wythe walls, the masonry backup wythe of a cavity wall, and pilasters and piers, built from concrete masonry units alone or from concrete masonry units combined with clay brick. Covers the assembly design values (specified masonry compressive strength, the unit and grout strengths that follow from it, and the mortar type for each wall class), grouting extent and the cells that receive it, bar reinforcement and joint reinforcement, corrosion protection of embedded metal, wythe ties and intersecting-wall connections, bond beams and lintels, bond pattern, bedding, and joint profile, control and expansion joints in the assembly, the prescriptive seismic detailing the seismic design category invokes, bracing of walls under construction, tolerances tightened for exposed work, and the strength verification and special inspection program.