SUSTAINABLE REHABILITATION

We take the holiday to show through the last test we have done in the basement of the study, comparative line to the fire behavior of the cork against petroleum materials.

The acoustic panel piece of polyurethane foam was removed from a professional recording studio that was dismantled in Donostia Tabakalera is therefore between these panels petrochemicals, of higher quality that can be found on the market . The images are quite eloquent.

In early March we received a mail from Chile, The earthquake had been regarded as the second strongest in the country's history and one of the five strongest recorded by humanity. From there began a contact with Alvaro, an architect who wrote to us, and exchange information via mail at our disposal in the study of these building systems and their rehabilitation.

I copy part of this correspondence as it has been an experience from which conclusions can be very interesting and not just in the field of international cooperation but also in the rehabilitation of vernacular heritage:

Dear Sñres.:

My name is Alvaro A. and I am a Spanish architect, I am currently working on a study of Santiago de Chile. I address you for being a landmark in the field of sustainable rehabilitation.

After the earthquake of February 27 I enrolled as a volunteer to help rebuild and I'm working for a few weeks with a cultural association in Aculeo reconstruction of the oldest houses in the region of adobe and wooden partitions. Many of them are collapsed and sunk, but as many are still standing but with a lot of damage. The interest is to preserve what little equity they have left, in a typical rural area and although part of the metropolitan area of the capital.

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This video shows how we work at the time of diagnosis of the pathologies of a building when it is a general and complex problem. In these cases it is essential to the reconstruction of the building to rehabilitate facilities and cracks, to make a joint analysis of the structural problems and avoid unnecessary repairs.

This study, like this 1939 building that we are rehabilitating in Vallecas, leads us to delimit the area that is producing the harm and to intervene promptly.
The cracks indicate the intensity, direction and origin of the movement, these cracks must be observed partially in the housing, but together, and running through the building checking the Descents.

In this video we see another economical solution that avoids demolishing a floor where wood joists are not too affected by worms. This solution is to strengthen the heads of the woods by UPN steel profiles abundantly supporting the sleeper (race) and are subject to lag each of the joists.