Knauf Insulation Supports the management and maintenance of buildings

The past Wednesday 30 October, Knauf Insulation participated like sponsor of the 18ª Technical Day On Management and Maintenance of Buildings organised by AEM (Spanish Association of Maintenance) that celebrated in the House Convalescència of Barcelona. Francisco Javier González Fernández, president of AEM and Lluís Dalmau i Arbós, president of the Committee of Maintenance of AEM inaugurated the day and explained that they had chosen the House Convalescència to celebrate this event because it is a hospitable building rehabilitated and turned into a space for events and conferences, a clear example of recovery and maintenance of existent buildings.

The day approached to the professionals the best solutions for the maintenance of buildings and the novelties regarding existent rule; in a period in that the investment in new work is limited and that puts especially importance the importance to keep in good condition the existent buildings, doing them increasingly efficient and effective in the consumption of energetic. The start of the Conference was to charge of Joan Lluís Quer i Cumsille, president and adviser delegated of Infrastructures of the Generalitat, that exposed that the current crisis is an opportunity to improve procedures and the buildings in himself. Also it explained that the Generalitat possesses a Plan of Power to improve that all in the future think in ‘green' and that the reward of services are linked to aims of saving.

Barcelona has received the 18ª Technical Day On Management and Maintenance of Buildings organised by AEM.

By his part, Josep Linares Gone out, Operative director of Rehabilitation and Improvement of the house of the Agència of L'habitatge of Catalonia, declared that his work is to manage the park of houses in Catalonia and realizar for this works of maintenance, conservation and rehabilitation. It explained to the assistants that is essential that the concept of maintenance was clear so much for users, technicians and companies, and that the preventive maintenance is very necessary since it serves to detect with antelación deficiencies and like this, avoid the degradation of the building and lengthen his useful life. Obligatoriamente, cleared, this prevention has to go linked to the management and performance.

To conclude, Jaume Rius of AHC, explained that the big problem in this sector is that “it does not think in the maintenance to the hour to design. Since it projects the first line of the building, has to think in his maintenance”. The day resulted an interesting forum where the professionals could take part and expose his doubts and where all coincided that “the maintenance of buildings is a social need forced”. Knauf Insulation Collaborates with initiatives like this that promote the rehabilitation, management and maintenance of existent buildings, cooperating with professionals, companies and official organisms to boost the existence of buildings increasingly efficient and sustainable.