guidelines for conducting structural assessments of exisiting buildings 1

[josephv]

Hello, hope all is great.

Would anyone happen to know of any guidelines for conducting a structural assessment of an exisiting building? I am only familiar with the two guidelines listed below:

1. The Building Authority in Singapore has a guideline on periodic structural engineering inspections of existing buildings:

http://www.bca.gov.sg/PeriodicStructuralInspection/others/PSI_PE.pdf

2. Furthermore, the American Society of Civil Engineers has a guideline on the structural condition assessment of existing buildings:

http://www.asce.org/Books-and-Journ...ion-Assessment-of-Existing-Buildings-(11-99)/

Thanks,

Joseph

 

[smb4050]

The book titled "Structural Condition Assessment" by Robert T. Ratay has some useful information.

 

[Ron]

Experience.

 

[dik]

Ron... I've had a few bad ones...

Dik

 

[Ron]

dik...same here. We often learn most from those!

 

[msquared48]

Ron:

I noticed the word "often"...

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

 

[josephv]

Thanks everyone for all the tips. The book by Robert T. Ratay looks good. Here is a presentation by him on Structural Condition Assessment:

http://www.ucs.iastate.edu/mnet/_repository/2009/structural/pdf/Robert Ratay.pdf

 

[msquared48]

In 2002, SEAW (Structural Engineers Association of Washington) produced a three ring binder entitled "Seismic Evaluation and Rehabilitation of Buildings" that has a lot of useful guidelines too for all sorts of structural configurations... if you are in a seismic region, which most of us are, as we are finding out.

Mike McCann
MMC Engineering

http://mmcengineering.tripod.com

 

[BAretired]

Very instructive. I particularly liked the last step.

BA