Structural Design, Condition Assessment and Renovation of Buildings

 To teach best practice strategies in Structural Design and Assessment and Renovation of Buildings.

CONTENT

• Introduction, Why Renovate?
• Challenges of structural renovation
• Code provisions for renovations
• Renovate or Rebuild?
• Investing in existing conditions
• Renovating steel-framed buildings
• Strengthening concrete buildings
• Repairing deteriorated concrete
• Renovating wood buildings
• Renovating masonry buildings
• Wind and seismic retrofit
• Structural condition assessment procedure
• Conducting a condition survey
• Planning the evaluation
• Statistical procedures
• Destructive and non-destructive testing for concrete and masonry
• Pros and Cons of non destructive testing
• Establishing strength and quality of in-place concrete and masonry
• Evaluating cracks in concrete and masonry
• Analysis of wet masonry walls
• Evaluating corrosion
• Interpreting and using destructive and non-destructive test results
• Conducting condition surveys of woods and metal structures
• In-place evaluation of wood-based materials and metals
• Inspection procedures
• Destructive and non-destructive testing of wood-based materials and metals
• Establishing in-place strengths for wood based structures
• Understanding the limitations of non-destructive testing
• Investigating defects and damage
• Evaluating wood and steel connections

FOR WHOM:

Works, Services and Maintenance Personnel

TRAINING METHODOLOGY

The training methodology combines lectures, discussions, group exercises and illustrations. Participants will gain both theoretical and practical knowledge of the topics. The emphasis is on the practical application of the topics and as a result participant will go back to the workplace with both the ability and the confidence to apply the techniques learned to their duties.