TEMA

Tag: Building technology

  • Construction principles of seismic and energy renovation systems for existing buildings

    Abstract

    Prefabricated “building systems” for the renovation of façades of existing buildings can achieve not only a physical building improvement of the envelope and thus result in lower energy consumption but also make an improvement in the resistance to seismic stress. To this end, the development of a combination of an exoskeleton and lightweight components as infill for the seismic truss system will be presented. Both a variability of the spatial appearance of the truss as well as the modularization of all construction components as a prerequisite for the prefabrication was examined and the system will be transferred into the real application by case studies as part of an H2020 research project.

  • Rehabilitation technology of traditional architecture: managing coexistence between conservation and innovation

    Abstract

     

    The study presented in this abstract focuses its attention on the rehabilitation by the technological point of view of traditional architecture that belongs to historical city nucleus. Which building technology characteristics are considered as constant, and which ones are considered as changeable, in today rehabilitation practice, with respect to the problem of managing the coexistence between conservation of the cultural values and innovation to respond to contemporary exigencies? This study tried to answer this question by applying a comparative case study strategy.

  • Technological qualification of building components

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    The aim of the research is to operate a technological qualification of building components to guarantee the “suitability” between the existing and new material as well as the “durability”, through an “appropriate” intervention. An “appropriate” restoration should plan the reuse of built heritage and aim to achieve building performance comparable to new buildings. The above methodological approach was tested upon case studies, each of them characterized by different technical and technological aspects (concrete, masonry,mixed structure).