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Evaluation and Repair of a Distressed Masonry Veneer Façade: A Case Study of the Litton Reaves Repair Project
The Litton Reaves facility is a multi-use laboratory and classroom building for the Animal Science Department of Virginia Tech. Constructed in the early 1980s, the facility had been in service for almost 20 years before symptoms of distress began to appear in the exterior cladding of the building. The severity of the distress was punctuated by the partial failure of a section of oolitic limestone panel that fractured and had to be removed from the facility. This case study offers an overview of the evaluation performed on the exterior cladding system of the building and discusses the mechanisms that led to the problems in the brick and limestone veneer. The paper discusses the repair program and highlights several structural repair and sequencing challenges that were encountered due to the redistribution of forces within the veneer. Correction of nagging water penetration and air infiltration problems were sequenced and performed in conjunction with the structural repairs in order to improve the building's interior conditions while meeting the University's "design-to" budget.
Evaluation and Repair of a Distressed Masonry Veneer Façade: A Case Study of the Litton Reaves Repair Project
The Litton Reaves facility is a multi-use laboratory and classroom building for the Animal Science Department of Virginia Tech. Constructed in the early 1980s, the facility had been in service for almost 20 years before symptoms of distress began to appear in the exterior cladding of the building. The severity of the distress was punctuated by the partial failure of a section of oolitic limestone panel that fractured and had to be removed from the facility. This case study offers an overview of the evaluation performed on the exterior cladding system of the building and discusses the mechanisms that led to the problems in the brick and limestone veneer. The paper discusses the repair program and highlights several structural repair and sequencing challenges that were encountered due to the redistribution of forces within the veneer. Correction of nagging water penetration and air infiltration problems were sequenced and performed in conjunction with the structural repairs in order to improve the building's interior conditions while meeting the University's "design-to" budget.
Evaluation and Repair of a Distressed Masonry Veneer Façade: A Case Study of the Litton Reaves Repair Project
Peterson, J. E. (author) / Shelton, T. (author)
Fifth Forensic Engineering Congress ; 2009 ; Washington, D.C., United States
Forensic Engineering 2009 ; 85-95
2009-11-02
Conference paper
Electronic Resource
English
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