Building Condition Assessment
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Building Condition Assessment Course
Introduction:
Those in charge of buildings need to participate in condition surveys as they age. These people must assess materials, carry out destructive or non-destructive testing, assess findings, and choose the appropriate course of action for structural repair. This lecture covers the detailed methods for performing a condition survey on fire safety systems, HVAC units, plumbing, electrical, steel, and masonry structures. The advantages and disadvantages of destructive and non-destructive methods are examined, as well as how well-suited each is for certain circumstances.
Course Objectives:
After participating in this course, you will be able to:
- Follow the visual inspection methods used by specialists
- Use the latest destructive and non-destructive investigation techniques when conducting a building condition survey
- Select destructive and non-destructive testing techniques based on their strengths and limitations, and suitability to your concrete, steel, timber and masonry structures
- Interpret building system result
- Assess the useful life of the building systems and the whole building
Who Should Attend?
- Structural engineers
- Project engineers & managers
- Consulting engineers
- Designers
- Facility supervisors & managers
- Building services managers
- Technicians & technologists
- Capital asset personnel
- Inspection personnel
- Architects
Course Outlines:
Introduction, workshop preview, learning outcomes, and the assessment method
- Objective for building condition assessment
- Procedures and checklists for assessing buildings
- A comprehensive study of condition survey of a building
- Examples of assessing various building components
Structural condition assessment and evaluation of wood structures
- Wood as construction material, pressure-treated wood
- Visual inspection of columns, beams, fasteners and connectors, structural panels, shear walls and diaphragms, roofs, glue-laminated timber, and metal plate connected wood trusses
- Material evaluation
- Destructive and non-destructive testing
- Strength considerations
- Assessing the risk of failure
- Case studies
- Checklist for wood structures problems
Structural condition assessment and evaluation of steel structures
- Types of damage: corrosion, structural deficiencies and distress
- Visual inspection of columns, beams and trusses
- Material condition
- Destructive and nondestructive testing techniques
- Performance rating of components
- Upgrading of existing structures
- Reporting data reduction
- Case studies: condition assessment of a steel building
- Checklist for 80% of steel structure problems
Structural condition assessment and evaluation of masonry structures
- Types of damage: dampness, spalling, efflorescence, corrosion of ties, structural deficiencies and distress
- Visual inspection of load-bearing walls, columns and brick veneer
- Material evaluation
- Destructive and non-destructive testing
- Statistical evaluation of test data
- Strength considerations
- Assessing the risk of failure
- reporting-data reduction
- Case studies
- Checklist for 80% of masonry structures problems
Structural condition assessment and evaluation of concrete structures
- Causes of concrete deterioration: frost action, chemical attack, alkali-aggregate reaction, mechanical abrasion, non-uniform volume change, corrosion of embedded reinforcement
- Types of damage: cracking, water leakage, staining, corrosion-related damage, structural deficiencies and distress, fire damage
- Visual inspection of columns, beams, slabs, parking garages
- Material evaluation
- Destructive and non-destructive testing
- Statistical evaluation of test data
- Strength considerations
- Durability considerations
- Assessing the risk of failure
- Reporting-data reduction
- Case studies
- Checklist for 80% of concrete structures
Foundation:
- Soil type and bearing capacity
- Soil modifications
- Type of foundation-shallow or deep
- Foundation cracks/repairs
- Foundation settlement
- Checklist for 80% of foundations problems
Testing and monitoring building envelope
- Standard, non-destructive testing, and monitoring of building envelopes will be discussed encompassing the techniques and advantages of ground-penetrating radar and impact-echo to evaluate envelope conditions including:
- Standard tests: testing brick mortar in the field, testing vapour pressure in the field
- NDT tests: general principles of ground-penetrating radar, general principles and uses of impact-echo testing, comparison of the two NDT methods using case histories: evaluating the presence of cracking in stone masonry, evaluating the presence of voids in solid masonry units, evaluating the internal deterioration of historical masonry
- Monitoring buildings including: stress, crack and building envelope movement-methods and accuracies ,moisture-methods and accuracies
- Case study at venue location