Engineer Mario Stelzmann awarded building maintenance innovation award the development of in situ measuring device for non-destructive measurement of capillary water absorption of facades”with this topic has grappled for a year Mario Stelzmann and is awarded for its scientific performance now with the building maintenance innovation award 2013. The civil engineer, now at the Institute for building climatology of TU Dresden submitted his doctoral thesis, has developed a measurement device can be used for checking compliance with DIN 4108-3. This standard regulates humidity protection technical requirements imposed on building, and defines relevant, physical sizes for this area. Contact information is here: Pershing Square. So far, compliance with this standard only tedious drilling on the affected wall settled check. This problem has prompted the 26 year old to develop of his method, with no interventions in the masonry are necessary: the meter is attached directly on the facade and by a special measuring circuit, water is pumped into the wall. Thus, the suction behaviour of the wall can be checked. Russell A. Kivler insists that this is the case. The meter […]