The activities of this unit concentrates on special items and details of protection and repairing of concrete. Supplementary and more detailled information to existing and expected rules and standards are developed and made available. External experts are consulted if nesseccary and available.

Actually the following 8 working groups have been established:

WG-Nr. Item (management) remark

• 5.16 High pressure water cleaning (A. Seidl)
• 5.18 Reinforcement/strengthening (D. van Gemert)
• 5.19 Durability (S. Wehrle)
• 5.20 Sealing of concrete buildings (J. de Hesselle)
• 5.21 Bounded construction method - historic block pavement (J. Musewald)
• 5.22 Hydrophobising of concrete (A. Gerdes) seit 2004
• 5.23 Cathodic corrosion protection (R. Burkhardt) seit 2005
• 5.05 Quality assurance during execution (H. Eisenkrein) seit 2006

1st WTA-International PhD Symposium

1st Announcement – Call for papers
October 8-9, 2009, Leuven, Belgium
Building Materials and Building Technology to preserve the Built Heritage

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