Description:

Course sets out key consideratons and implications which require structure assessment. The course provides an objective framework and methodical and systematic approach to surveying of historic buildings.
(structural diagnosis, preliminary and comprehensive survey,
visual inspection, site inspections, laboratory tests, investigation kits, types of defects and damages, symptoms, manifestation, significance, criticality, reason for failures
case studies)

Contents:

1.Principles and procedures of structural diagnosis, preliminary and comprehensive survey, standards, codes
2.Investigation kits, diagnostic methods
3.Site inspections, laboratory tests (methodology, criteria, observation)
4.Agents causing deterioration of building materials (role of external forces, instability and deficiency of structures)
5.Historic Survey
6.Inspection of masonry (walls, vaults)
7.Inspection of timber structures
8.Inspection of foundation, hydrogeologic survey
9.Moisture survey, inspection of indoor air quality
10.Identification of dpc and dpm
11.Content of the report, conclusions, evaluation of building state
12.-13. Survey of significant historical monuments, case studies

Seminar contents:

1. semestral assignment
2.-3. inspection in-situ (diagnostic equipment)
4.-5. laboratory testing and analysis of building material properties (mechanical, chemical, micro-biological)
6. professional excursion

Recommended literature:

[1] Hollis M.: Surveying Buildings, RICS Boks 2005, ISBN-13: 978-1842191927
[2] Assessment of Traditional Housing, BRE Watford 2001, ISBN: 0-85125-432-2
[3] Oxley R.: Survey and Repair of Traditional Buildings - A Sustainable Approach, Donhead 2006, ISBN 1-873304-50-0

Keywords:

diagnosis, structural survey, site inspection, manifestation of defects, reason for failures, agents of deterioration, remedial methods

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar