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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

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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.

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