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The study, realised/realized by two students of the Upper School d' Edificació of Barcelona, was rewarded with 3.000 euros

The deteriorantes of the ceramics, leading in SAW them Prizes of Edificación

Editorial Interempresas29/04/2011

29 April 2011

‘Els agents deteriorants Of the ceràmica architectural'. This was the project with which the students of the Escola Politècnica Upper d'Edificació of Barcelona Miriam Carries Bañuls and Mireais Irrigated Pucurull carried the 3.000 corresponding euros to the winner of SAW it Edition of the Prizes Edificación organised/organized by BASF and the Association Club Dir, that this year congregaba initiatives surroundings to the lemma ‘Construint a món sustainable'.

Present at the awards ceremony, held on 13 March in the school Hall of acts, were the magnificent rector of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Antoni Giró Roca i; the director of l'Escola Politècnica d'Edificació de Barcelona, French Jordana Riba; the Secretary (d) ' housing i urban Millota of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Carles lounge i rock; the President of the Association Club Dir, Eloy Urbón; and the director of Construction Systems Iberia/BASF, Juan Carlos Cerrato.

Stressing the characteristics of ceramics (hardness, durability, porosity, shrinkage and, above all, the plasticity) Porta Bañuls and Regada Pucurull add new traditional agents of deterioration such as, for example, the substances from industrial pollution and the inappropriate use of artificial products in conservation and restoration treatments. Both factors have led to the emergence of new types of attacks that alter and modify the physical-chemical structure of the ceramic material, product of a highly thermal transformation (± 1000 ° C), quecondiciona their methods of intervention.

Substances from industrial pollution and the misuse of artificial restoration products have led to the emergence of new attacks in ceramics

"Despite the economic situation continue admiring the effort of universities," said Urbón. In this line, room i Roca, stressed that the manufacture of new materials have to be the future of the construction and that the crisis "an opportunity to innovate".

The second prize, worth 1,500 euros went to the project ' Agents of degradació of the riding crop. Identification. Tractaments i tècniques reforç', the students Joaquin Capellà Llovera, Manuel Bourbon Sanllorente, Vicenç Hubert Armengol. "Currently systems for diagnostics of pathologies of wood through visual analysis in the first instance (identify areas attacked, discerning what has been the agent of degradation to act accordingly, to try to assess the initial quality of the element.)." from which many conclusions, which can be confirmed with load, speed of ultrasonic testing, vibracioneso x-rays can be made.

'Optimotzació of the impermeabilitzacions' of Salvador Bohigas Segarra, Daniel Hidalgo Saucedo and Albert Juanico Bardolet, was the title of the third prize, which took the third prize of 1,000 euros. The work makes a proposal for the laying of asphalt teles, through the use of a new gas, (CH2) chemante, basically used for cutting of steel structures with contribution of oxygen. To study the feasibility of the CH2, there have been several tests to contrast the differences between the chemante2 and the gas most used in the welding of asphalt TVs, propane.