Description

Theory
2

Theory/Practice
2

Instructors

Duarte Lopes

Contents

1.Introduction
i.Essential notions about buildings rehabilitation and good repair
ii.The old building in Portugal - detailed description of component parts
iii.The building in use. Useful life of a building.Quality level in time. Degradation agents.
iv.Functional exigency and qualities in use.

2.Behaviour of the building in use
i.Useful life of a building
ii.Factors /causes of buildings´degradation
iii.Intervention processes

3.Conservation of a building
i.Definition of the concepts involved in the conservation
ii.Strategies of conservation
iii.Technologies of conservation

4.Buildings´rehabilitation
i.Previous inspections
ii.Diagnosis of the building. Identification of the pathological anomalies. Their cause-effect
iii.The project of rehabilitation
iv.Classification and criterion of intervention
v.Processes of intervention
vi.Methodology of rehabilitation
vii.Technologies of rehabilitation

5.Legislation in use
 

Learning Outcomes

- Approach to the evolution of the fundamental concepts of conservation and rehabilitation with special emphasis on buildings;
- Methodological aspects of diagnosis and of project, with proposals for categorizing of the main and most frequent anomalies of structure and of construction that can be verified and their legal and financial background;
- presentation and discussion of proposals of corrective intervention in buildings and their projects engineering.