State of Repair of Marquees on Buildings in Recife, Brazil: Case Study and Quantitative Analysis João Ribeiro de Carvalho 1 Thiago de Oliveira Chaves 1 Eudes de Arimatea Rocha 1 Antonio Carlos de Albuquerque Melo 2 Kalline Almeida 2 Eliana Cristina Barreto Monteiro 3 ABSTRACT In Brazil, the practice of undertaking periodical repairs to buildings still unfortunately seems tenuous for owners and the technical sector proper. Since no building was designed or built to last forever, each day more buildings appear with a shorter service life due to lack of maintenance. In this sense, the marquees, isostatic structures in balance, which have little connection with the rest of the structure, become slabs quite vulnerable to the action of pathological expressions, such as corrosion, efflorescence, mildew and damp. To assess the state of repair of the marquees of the buildings in downtown Recife, a visual inspection with photographic report follow-up and later quantitative analysis of the pathological expressions found were proposed. The qualitative conservation of marquees was analyzed in three case studies that were chosen in earlier inspections because of their poor state of repair, their peculiar or representative interventions, and pathologies that would primarily allow easy access for their inspection. This paper is even more relevant when the collected data herein give a general idea of the state of repair of marquees of buildings in downtown Recife, and could be used to repair the degraded marquees, thus preventing accidents. KEYWORDS Marquee, Inspection, Pathologies, Repair. 1 Undergraduate in Civil Engineering – University of Pernambuco, Pernambuco, Brasil,
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