The participants will be provided with detailed course material and will be familiarized with various features on concrete construction.

Provide participants with required information about the newly developed reinforced concrete materials.

Help them understand the different test methods for various materials and interpret their test results.

Assist participants to effectively consult the technical specifications of these materials.

Provide them with troubleshooting methods for material-related problems.

This seminar is designed for people in construction, industry and government who are involved in building maintenance and provide execution plan for maintenance and repair for buildings. This also design for who are involved in preparing maintenance document package and diagnosis the reasons of failure. And also the engineers who define and choose the methods of repair.

Day One: Building Evaluation

• Inspection and evaluate the buildings
• Methods of Inspection
• Visual inspection criteria
• Inspect the building using a new techniques
• Using ultrasonic and infrared for inspection.
• Evaluate the building risk
• Diagnoses the reason of deterioration
• Workshop: Define the cracks types
• Workshop: cracks in miscellaneous foundations

Day Two: Successful steps for repairing R.C. structure

• Define the method of repair
• Precaution during repair
• Selecting the materials repair
• -Step by step repair procedure
• Corrosion and protection of steel structure in concrete
• -Methods of protection
• -Cathodic protection
• -Comparison between different type of protection.
• Videos presenting a repair methods

Day Three: Properties of protective coating.

• Evaluate the current protective coating
• Types of protective coating
• Properties of each type
• Precautions in using the coating
• Types of cracks in R. C. structures
• Comparison between different cracks
• Reasons for each type
• Methods of repair and prevent for each type.

Day Four: Methods of repair the cracked structure  Corrosion.

• Materials using to repair corroded structure
• Methods of repair
• Using polymer bonding materials
• Types of polymer
• Properties of these materials

Day Five: Maintenance strategy

• Likelihood of building failure
• Define consequences of failure
• Provide risk matrix
• Risk based inspection (RBI)
• Maintenance plan and strategy
• Maintenance plan based economic cost
• Preparing priority lists
• Software for maintenance strategy
• Case study

RECTUS attendance certificate will be issued to all attendees completing minimum of 80% of the total course duration