The American Concrete Institute (ACI) has just released a companion guide to the ACI 562-13 Code Requirements for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings. Aimed at contractors, inspectors, owners, and manufacturers, the guide’s main goal is to provide insight into the interpretations and explain the proper use of the ACI 562 principles.

The ACI 562-13 code provides the requirements to determine whether or not a concrete building can be repaired, and, if it can be, it describes rules for determining strength, how to perform structural analysis, rules for stability and shoring, and inspection requirements.

The 16 Chapter companion guide, co-authored by the ACI and the International Concrete Repair Institute, is broken up into 2 main sections: chapter guides and project examples.

Chapter Guides

Following the same structure of the original code, the chapter guides include additional insights, flow charts. Some of the additional insights include how to select the building code for a particular repair design, how to determine compliance, additional considerations to make, and quality assurance.

Project Examples

The project examples section used real-world applications and applies the ACI 562-13 code principles to them. Among the real-world examples chosen are

Parking garage repairs
Façade repairs
Repair of Historic Structure for Adaptive Reuse
Strengthening of Two-Way Flat Slab
Strengthening of Double-Tee Stems for Shear

The companion guide is priced at $120.50 for non ACI members and $72.00 for ACI members, which you can buy here.

Guide to the Code for Evaluation, Repair, and Rehabilitation of Concrete Buildings ($72-$120.50) | ACI

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