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Through
this site we aim to provide you with the most recent information
about the COST C16 project "Improving the quality of existing
urban building envelopes". COST is an intergovernmental framework
for European Co-operation in the field of Scientific and Technical
Research, allowing the co-ordination of nationally funded research
on a European level.
The
scope of the Action is to improve techniques and methods for envelopes
of buildings constructed during the last half of the 20th century
in the COST countries. In other words directed on the building envelopes
of the so-called non-traditional buildings, constructed in-poured
concrete systems, big prefabricated systems and/or with small concrete/mixed
elements. The demand for housing in the post-war period necessitated
the rapid production of large numbers of dwellings. Qualitative
aspects were less important. Furthermore dwellings of the types
then constructed no longer fulfil contemporary or anticipated future
demands for housing, with the possible exception of those dwelling
built during the last 5 years.
The
main objective of the Action is to improve the quality of the urban
building envelopes for the non-traditional housing stock, as well
as to propose and disseminate new relevant methods and technical
options to architects, engineers and planners.
The corresponding step-by-step objectives are:
- To survey and compare non-traditional dwellings in Europe related
to their amount per type per country.
- To compare the engineering technologies used.
- To assess the future demands for housing, sites and neighbourhoods
and their effects for building envelopes.
- To evaluate the possibilities for change in use and the limitations
for such measures.
- To develop new engineering technologies and techniques for better
use.
- To disseminate the gained results in order to assist in implementation.
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