TY - JOUR AU - Briceño Mena, Jorge Alberto AU - Castro Borges, Pedro PY - 2022/01/01 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Practical use of the safety factor in the column repair strategy of a concrete building with historical value JF - Revista ALCONPAT JA - Revista de la Asociación Latinoamericana de Control de Calidad, Patología y Recuperación de la Construcción VL - 12 IS - 1 SE - Study Case DO - 10.21041/ra.v12i1.569 UR - https://revistaalconpat.org/index.php/RA/article/view/569 SP - 98 - 109 AB - In this paper the practical use of the safety factor (FS) in the column repair strategy of a reinforced concrete building with historical value (almost 70 years) is presented. 80% of a building located in the historic center of the city of Campeche, Mexico, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was repaired. Strategies were used for a better use of material resources, equipment, and labor in the repair of walls, columns, slabs, and beams. One of the strategies was to use the theoretical FS to calculate the repair depth without structural consequences but fulfilling the purpose of controlling the carbonation of the concrete and maintaining the desired prediction of service life. ER -