Industrial Area Cagliari - Cagliari, Italy

Status before the restoration*: 

• Prefab floors revealed deflections of 10 - 15 cm, with damaged and broken parts and some collapsed;
• the bearing structures, some made with prestressed beams, were completely         damaged till to iron;
• 70% of the walls were unsafe and to be demolished;
• pavements were destroyed by heat;
• fire lasted about 14 hours due to the large quantity of plastic materials stored inside.

(*) Damages caused by a fire lasting about 14 hours (due to the large quantity of plastic materials stocked inside the warehouse).

Execution of works: 

• shoring of the floors with scaffolding and progressive demolition by use of cranes;
• scarification of the reinforced concrete structures;
• cleaning of reinforcing rods performed with high pressure water jet;
• anticorrosive treatment of reinforcement rods with Rimac;
• reconstruction of concrete cover;
• partial and total demolition of some beams and their reconstruction;
• reconstruction of the new walls;
• reconstruction of roofs with metal elements.