MAINTENANCE, REPAIR & REHABILITATION AND MINOR WORKS OF BUILDINGS

by P. C. VARGHESE

Overview

Maintenance of a building refers to the work done to keep an existing building in a condition where it can perform its intended function. Overlooked dilapidation, inadequate maintenance and a lack of repair works may lead to a shortened life span of a building. This comprehensive book focuses on the maintenance, repair and rehabilitation of a building, and presents guidelines for traditional as well as modern techniques for upkeeping and repairing buildings.It is organised into five parts. Part I deals with the maintenance of buildings, including description of construction chemicals, concrete repair chemicals, special materials used for repair. Part II covers the repair of various parts of a building, including the strengthening of reinforced concrete members by shoring, underpinning, and plate bonding. RC jacketing and FRP methods are explored in Part III, which also looks at the rebuilding of RC slabs and protection of earth slopes. Part IV examines minor works done in a building, such as construction of compound walls, gates, waters sumps, relaying of floors, joining two adjacent rooms and so on. Part V covers control of termites and fungus in buildings.Written in an engaging style, this book will be a must-read for undergraduate and postgraduate students of civil engineering. The book will also be of benefit to technical professionals.Key features:Includes figures to clarify concepts.Chapter-end references make the text suitable for further study.Appendices provide extra information on non-destructive field tests for concrete buildings and a rough estimation of the construction and maintenance costs of buildings.Read more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788120349452
Publisher:	PHI Learning
Publication date:	04/04/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

P.C. VARGHESE [M.S., M.Engg. (Harvard), Ph.D.], is a distinguished teacher, a well-known consultant and an established author. He had his postgraduate education in soil mechanics at Harvard University, USA (under Professor Terzaghi and Professor Casagrauda) and also in reinforced concrete design at Imperial College, London (under Professor A.L.L. Baker). As a teacher, he worked as one of the founding faculty member of three well-known universities—IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and University of Maratuwa, Sri Lanka (here, he also served as UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor). He has good field experiences as Assistant Soil Specialist, Hirakud Dam Project in Odisha, Construction Engineer at IIT Kharagpur and UNCHS Advisor to Buildings Department, Sri Lanka. As an author, he has written a number of textbooks in the field of Civil Engineering after his retirement while working as Honorary Visiting Professor, College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University, Chennai. Professor Varghese has written nine books including the present book, all published by PHI Learning. PHI Publications by Professor P.C. Varghese • Building Materials • Building Construction • Foundation Engineering • Design of Reinforced Concrete Foundations • Engineering Geology for Civil Engineers • Limit State Design of Reinforced Concrete, 2nd ed. • Advanced Reinforced Concrete Design, 2nd ed. • Design of Reinforced Concrete Shells and Folded Plates

Table of Contents

Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Maintenance of Buildings 1. General Comments about Maintenance of Buildings. 2. Painting of Buildings. 3. Maintenance of Home Electricity System. 4. Use of Solar and Wind Energy in Buildings. 5. Maintenance of Domestic Water Pumps. Part II: Repair and Rehabilitation 6. Construction Chemicals. 7. Concrete Repair Chemicals. 8. Special Materials Used for Construction and Repair of Buildings. 9. Mechanism of Corrosion of Steel in Reinforced Concrete. 10. Repair of RC Slabs (i) RC Old Slabs with Bottom Falling Off Due to Steel Corrosion and (ii) New RC Slabs with Bottom Plaster Falling Off Due to Lack of Bond. 11. Repair of RC Beams and Columns Damaged by Steel Corrosion. 12. Repair of (i) Rising Dampness in Walls of Ground Floors in Old Buildings Constructed Without DPC (ii) Efflorescence in Buildings. 13. Repair of Cracks in Masonry Walls of Buildings. 14. Repair of Cracks in Concrete Members. 15. Repair of Sunshades (Chajja). 16. Repair of Rainwater Leakage in Buildings. 17. Repair and Renovation of Waterproofing Works of RC Flat Roofs Against Rains. 18. Repair of Valley Gutters of Sloping Roofs. 19. Repair of Leakage of Basement Due to Groundwater. 20. Repair of Leakage of Bathing Area of Toilets of Multistoreyed Buildings. 21. Repair of Leakage of Sunken Floors of Toilets of Multistoreyed Buildings. Part III: Strengthening of Members 22. Strengthening Foundations of Buildings by Shoring and Underpinning. 23. Strengthening RC Beams, Columns and Slabs by (i) Plate Bonding (ii) RC Jacketing and (iii) FRP Methods. 24. Strengthening Columns and Beams by RC Jacketing. 25. RC Slab Strengthening by Concrete Overlay. 26. Protection of Earth Slopes. Part IV: Minor Construction 27. Construction and Repair of Underground Water Tanks with Weld Mesh and Overhead Water Tanks with Ferrocement. 28. Construction of Rainwater Harvesting System. 29. Construction of a Cantilever Portico (Car Porch). 30. Construction of Compound Walls and Barbed Wire Fences. 31. Fixing of Gates to Compound Wall. 32. Fixing of Internal Doors without Door Frames. 33. Construction of a Walkway on the Ground with Bricks. 34. Construction of a House Garage. 35. Relaying Floor with Ceramic Tiles. 36. Converting the Brick Jelly Lime Concrete Roof into a Floor when One More Storey Added to the Building. 37. Joining Two Adjacent Rooms by Removing the Load Bearing Wall in Between. Part V: Allied Topics 38. Control on Termites (White Ants) in Buildings. 39. Fungus Decay of Timber in Buildings. 40. Vaastu Shastra. Appendices—A: Non-destructive Field Tests for Survey of the Condition of Concrete in Buildings. B: Making a Rough Estimate of the Construction and Maintenance Costs of Buildings. Bibliography. Index.