Day 1, Session Block A1
10:45 Forensic Engineering and Architecture: Investigations of Building Skin Failures
Chair: Robert Bitterli, Ivy Group Consultants, St. Pete, United States
Understanding building skins through failures: Trends in failure mechanisms and their costs
- Trends in building skin failures as they relate to changes in design trends
- Cost of building skin failures
- Strategies to adapt design to emerging and new building skin technologies
Hospital building skin investigation and repairs
- Invasive mold spore contamination
- Damages within - Severity
- Repairs in a fully occupied acute care facility
Stucco/wood skin investigation and repairs
- Visual non-invasive skin investigation and repairs
- Invasive skin investigation and repairs
- Documentation utilized in mediation and/or trial
Low-rise skin investigation and repairs - Case Study
- The skin over gypsum/metal studs and over masonry
- Window and sliding glass door testing
- Necessary and reasonable repairs
Service life prediction models to predict building skin failures
- Science-based models predicting the failure of specific building skin materials
- Predicting in-service performance
- Predictions of material failure based on specific location conditions
12:30 Lunch