Refurbishment Technology Specialised course

This course is an introduction to buildings in a life cycle perspective focusing on special technical challenges in refurbishment projects like condition survey, cost calculation, tender documents, load bearing capacity, foundation, building techniques and consequences of the building physics. We introduce assessment analysis of building performance to minimize the gap between their potential and regulations. We also introduce the facilities management’s (FM) role in refurbishment.

The course shall give in depth knowledge about refurbishment processes and principals for sustainable refurbishment processes, cost calculations and execution processes, relaying foundations, exchange of load bearing constructions, protected cultural buildings as well as special knowledge about fire, universal design and building physics in existing building stock. - Methodology and tools to analyse a buildings potential to develop and refurbish according to the regulations of today. The course shall give the student practical skills to apply assessment methodologies and tools and regulation in order to assess and get familiar with the property of the building before refurbishing the building. The course shall give the students general knowledge of the principals of sustainable protection and development of existing building stock included cultural heritage buildings.

Lectures. A practical obligatory assignment that is to be done in groups of 4-5 persons.