5th semester introduces you to building renovation and transformation.
Within this topic you will:
• Make registration of load carrying and stabilizing elements to decide the structural system of the existing building.
• Scrutinize the existing drawings and compare with the site registration.
• Make load analysis of the existing building using the existing drawings.
• Registry the condition of the structural elements and make suggestions for repairing, strengthening or building in new structural elements in a survey report.
• Argue and assess property analysis for different solutions changes within the new design solutions.
• Select necessary temporary supports or underpinning for structural changes or demolition.
Focus on Hands on experience.
Make collision control of services and structural elements

A student who has met the objectives of the semester will gain knowledge within:

• Structural principles in old buildings in Copenhagen
• Generate necessary Main drawing ( sections and plans) for the existing building, demolition and new drawings (alterations)
• Generate necessary building part drawings and key junctions for the existing building, demolition and new drawings (alterations)
• Generate necessary process drawings in order to describe the procedure of the work sequence (order of activity) within the alterations.