Building Maintenance and Rehabilitation

Code:

M.EC038

Acronym:

MRE

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Building Construction

Instance: 2024/2025 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Civil and Georesources Engineering
Course/CS Responsible:	Master in Civil Engineering

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
M.EC	53	Syllabus	2	-	6	45,5

Teaching language

Portuguese and english
Obs.: Work Group for English speaking students

Objectives

Training in the field of engineering for the needs of a building in its phase of use, the importance of which can be summed up in three aspects:
1 - It is an area of knowledge where Civil Engineering can and should have a proviligiado role.
2 - The amateurism with which buildings are managed has as a consequence a decrease in their Useful Life and a clear increase in the burden on services
3 - Responding to the professional market that has observed an exponential growth in the involvement of Civil Engineers in the management of commercial spaces, service and housing condominiums, hotels, industrial parks, public buildings (schools,  hospitals, courts, etc.)

Learning outcomes and competences

In the field of Building Maintenance, being able to:

 Set up a building management structure serving the constructive characteristics of a building, the nature of use and the degree of requirement to which the building is subject;

 Draw up a maintenance plan based on specific policies;

Identify information technology needs and maintenance algorithms in order to select software.

In the field of the Economy of Use, being able to:

- Draw up a budget for a building in service;

─ Establish strategies and fundraising to ensure the economic sustainability of the building;

─ Optimize consumption to the needs of the organization (FM).

In the field of Sustainable Use, being able to:

─ Identify and quantify construction impacts;

─ Apply impact-in-service minimization solutions;

─ Promoting sustainability among user habits;

─ Evaluate the reaction of users to the built-up solution (POE)

Working method

Presencial

Program

The building in use phase

The engineer as a building manager. National and International Panorama. The Construction Project Building in service behavior (Factors and mechanisms of degradation of buildings, Life-Cycle).

Typification of interventions (Maintenance, Rehabilitation, Improvement, Innovation, Restoration)

Simulation of building behavior,  Life Cycle Cost , MEDIC, SIMULA®

Building Management,

Technical management, Economic management, Functional management

Smart Buildings

(Automatic systems, Domotic notions, Maintenance platforms ARCHIBUS, INFRASPEAK)

Building Maintenance

Concepts, Policies, Maintenance Economics, Methodology, Legislation, Financing Programs

Platform SIME®

Rehabilitation Management

Classification and criteria of interventions, Rehabilitation Economics, Asset Valuation, Applicable legislation, Financing programs.

Building Maintenance Technology

Constructive Reconstruction of Buildings (SEC XIX, XX)

Characterization of an Anomaly

 (Pathological Manifestations, LUD, Examination, Decision-Making Process) , Anomaly Report

Maintenance Technology and Methodology

Maintenance Technology - Water Damage

                Maintenance Methodology - Roofs

Maintenance Technology - Structural Damage

                Maintenance Methodology – External envelope

Maintenance Technology – Coatings damage (paints)

                Maintenance Methodology - Floors

Maintenance Technology - Coatings damage (ceramics)

                Maintenance Methodology – Windows and doors

Maintenance Technology - Damage in spans (wood, metal, shading and occlusion systems)

                Maintenance Methodology - Facilities

Facility Management

Sustainable management (impacts and their minimization, sustainability habits and POE)

Mandatory literature

Calejo Rodrigues, Rui; Gestão de Edifícios - Apontamentos de apoio à unidade curricular de Manutenção e Reabilitação de Edifícios. , 2021

Teaching methods and learning activities

The general methodology will be based on active learning motivating the trainees to build knowledge based on the development of the idea until the solution is obtained. This process of active knowledge lacks concepts that are the object of theoretical exposure.

Group learning techniques are experimental around cases of study addressed competitively. This process stimulates self-criticism and caution in "certainties" that result from an individual learning process.

The review of the bibliography will be a proposed method to address the theme related to the existence of prolíferous and unstructured information as is often available in digital dissemination media.

The evaluation provides for two different moments; one in a non-face-to-face group around a practical theme and the second individual moment, face-to-face around theoretical issues.

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Apresentação/discussão de um trabalho científico	15,00
Trabalho de campo	85,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Trabalho de campo	26,00
Frequência das aulas	45,50
Total:	71,50

Eligibility for exams

As FEUP regulation

Calculation formula of final grade

Final classification = 0.85 * WORK MARK + 0.15 * DISCUSSION MARK

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

individual writen evaluation 100%