Summer School Structural strengthening and rehabilitation of historical buildings - World Cultural Heritage Studies Summer Program (New York, U.S.A.)

The summer school will deal with the perspective of preserving cultural heritage for the future generations

The stringent requirements in cultural heritage preservation and the emerging use of new solutions for consolidation, recovery, rehabilitation, re-functionality and energy retrofit of historic buildings, represents a new professional path required by the real world market.  In this view, the summer school will deal with these threefold perspective of preserving cultural heritage for the future generations.

Topics:

  • Historic masonry structures, quality and testing
  • Damage states in masonry buildings after earthquakes and safety assessment methods of historic buildings
  • Criteria and technologies for rehabilitation of historic masonry buildings;
  • Use of composite materials for strengthening of masonry buildings
  • Use of wooden floor diaphragms for seismic strengthening in masonry structures
  • Overview of preservation problems in contemporary historic reinforced concrete buildings

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