Building Pathology – Online Classroom

Course Type: Online

Length of Course: 2 Days (1:30pm - 8:30pm GST)

Next Available Dates:

18th January 2023

5th April 2023

4th July 2023

Description

A forensic approach to inspecting, investigating and problem solving in buildings and finding solutions.

Overview

Problems in buildings are often misdiagnosed and therefore a building pathological approach is essential to arrive at the correct diagnosis in solving problems. Buildings are complex and evidence indicates that often inspections of them do not provide enough information on the condition, performance and suitability for their intended use. Building pathology ensures a forensic approach. A proper understanding of a building is essential for many reasons ranging from decisions on purchasing a building to decisions on major investment in terms of adaptation or retrofitting. It is therefore important that the inspection can be relied upon and only with a building pathological approach can this be ensured.

This course provides the essential principles and practices of building pathology and the principles of building failure. It will describe the inspection process as well as monitoring and the equipment that is necessary along with the level of competencies required. It will focus on looking for the symptoms of problems externally and internally including the effects of use and the environment, including the changing environment due to climate change and how to determine the cause of problems and deal with their remediation. It will also consider how to determine suitability for different types of uses of a particular building. Ascertaining problems caused by adaptation and retrofitting of buildings will also be covered.

Those attending this course will understand the importance of detailed analysis of buildings and how to go about those analysis’s and the implications of not undertaking a detailed analysis for both the sake of the building and its occupants. Attendees will also have a good idea what to look out for and looking out for the changes which have taken place in a building which is becoming particularly relevant when analysing buildings which have been adapted and retrofitted. It will also enable course participants to come up with solutions that deal with the causes of problems.

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