Rehabilitation and maintenance of buildings

Recommended Prerequisites

The pre-requisites of this course are those corresponding to the application for the MSc course CMM.

Teaching Methods

Lectures (30 hours) with detailed exposition, using visual aids, concepts, principles and theories and to solve some practical exercises that meet all the needs of students with guidelines on the matter. Tutorial lessons (22.5 hours) to answer questions. Occasionally students are invited to attend lectures by visiting specialists. Tutorial lessons (22.5 hours) will be to answer questions and to help in the final project.

Learning Outcomes

The aim of this course is to provide students with the theoretical basis for the Rehabilitation and Maintenance of Building in composite steel and concrete structures in fire.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1.Need for rehabilitation and maintenance of buildings

Life. Pathologies. Maintenance of buildings. The building as a cultural value. Rehabilitation and expansion of buildings. Intervention in the built and classified heritage. Structural rehabilitation under the point of view of architecture.

2.Analysis

Climate Analysis; Analysis of comfort; Functional Analysis; Models of thermal comfort; Functional requirements.

3.Project

Initial design options; The interior; Design.

4.Anomalies of steel structures

Degradation of material properties; Mechanical actions; Defects; Damage induced by facililies.

5.Technical inspection

Routine inspections; Inspections main; Special Inspections.

6.Methods of diagnosis

Non-destructive testing.

7.Maintenance actions

Anti-corrosive Coatings.

8.Structural reinforcement

Rehabilitate and strengthen structures; Alternative reinforcement; Replacement or addition of structural elements; Pre-stress outside; Composite materials; cold-form elements.

9.Seismic strengthening.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Constança Simões Rigueiro

Assessment Methods

Continuous
Written work with oral presentation: 100.0%

Final
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous
Written work with oral presentation: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

Cesare Brandi – Teoria do Restauro, Edições Orion, 2006.

Flávio Lopes e Miguel Brito Correia – Património Arquitectónico e Arqueológico. Cartas, recomendações e convenções internacionais. Livros Horizonte, 2004.

Francisco de Gracia – Construir en lo construído, Nerea, 2001.

James Strike – De la Construcción a los Proyectos, Editorial Reverté, 2004.

João Appleton  – Reabilitação de Edifícios Antigos, Orion, 2003.

Jukka Jokilehto – A History of Architectural Conservation, Elsevier, 1999.

Pierre Engel – Guide de la réhabilitation avec l’acier à l’usage des architectes et des ingénieurs, ArcelorMittal, 2010.

Rafael  Moneo – Costruire nel costruito, Umberto Allemandi, 2007.

Vitor Cóias – Reabilitação Estrutural de Edifícios Antigos, Argumentum, 2007.