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Pre-diagnosis Protocol for Large Residential Building Stock. The Case of Barcelona’s Vulnerable Areas

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The large-scale evaluation of buildings is an important tool to guarantee that our cities are in good condition. This chapter presents the experience of a pre-diagnosis protocol applied to the most socially vulnerable neighborhoods in Barcelona. The protocol was specifically designed for this purpose and proposes a methodology in several elimination phases, in which attention is gradually focused on buildings that may be damaged and could lead to risk situations. The protocol was used to evaluate buildings in 16 neighborhoods of Barcelona. The original characteristics of the buildings varied widely, but all of them had suffered from a lack of building maintenance over decades. The results provide extensive information about the constructed reality of these neighborhoods and general and specific knowledge about the state of conservation of the buildings and their actual damage.

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Acknowledgments

This research was undertaken as part of the ongoing R&D Project: Re-Inhabit. Indicadores socio-espaciales para la mejora del stock habitacional en zonas vulnerables. Criterios de actuación en los casos de las áreas metropolitanas de Barcelona y Bilbao. RTI 2018-101342-B-I00, supported and funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation. This chapter was also written with funding from the Ministry of Education through an FPU Grant for Doctoral research. Thanks to Barcelona City Council for providing the funding and supporting this research.

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Cornadó, C., Vima-Grau, S., Garcia-Almirall, P. (2021). Pre-diagnosis Protocol for Large Residential Building Stock. The Case of Barcelona’s Vulnerable Areas. In: Delgado, J. (eds) Hygrothermal Behaviour and Building Pathologies. Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, vol 14. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50998-9_6

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