Estudio Patológico De Edificio 354 En Sede Meléndez De La Universidad Del Valle Sede Cali

Abstract

Due to the presence in recent years of injuries in the physical plant of the different buildings of the engineering schools of the Meléndez campus of the Universidad del Valle, it was planned to carry out a pathological study of the construction in building No. 354 of the Universidad del Valle. school of electrical and electronic engineering, a building that was selected for presenting the highest number of injuries, compared to the rest of the buildings of the university citadel that in 1972 was awarded the national architecture prize. This building was built at the end of the 1960s and beginning of the 1970s, with more than forty years of service, it presents pathologies in its different elements that, despite periodically presenting maintenance on its physical plant, especially inside the building where the service offices, laboratories and computer rooms, presents injuries in the different architectural elements of the second level of the facade such as fissures, detachment of concrete, severe deterioration in prefabricated concrete elements, cracks in its facade. Inside the building, humidity in the ceiling and in the concrete cover, likewise, on the first level there is detachment of some prefabricated elements such as columns, presence of dilations in the floor of the perimeter circulation areas of the building under study, deflections in the windows that cause progressive expansion between the element in question and the mezzanine slab. On the other hand, possible deflections of the building are evidenced, which are manifested with subsidence in the exterior floor plate of the building. The present pathological study is developed within the framework of the Integrated Professional Work -TPI to opt for the title of Specialist in Construction Pathology of the Santo Tomás University and the result obtained is the diagnosis of the injuries identified with their respective treatment, budget and execution schedule of your treatment.