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The director of technical degrees in Engineering and Architecture Building UCAM speaks at his inaugural lecture on interventions following earthquakes in Lorca

"329 buildings were demolished, and some are not demolished following the proper structural intervention was done," said the director of the Technical and Engineering degrees in the UCAM Building Architecture, Juan Roldan, who gave the conference inaugural National Student Congress of these areas Murcia organized institution and continue throughout the day tomorrow, Friday.

The event is sponsored since its inception by the Marketing Students Association Building Engineering (ASAT) which this year celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Attendees website belonging to polytechnic universities in Cartagena, Alicante, Granada, Madrid and La Coruña, in addition to the Jaime I of Castellón and the University of the Basque Country and diecinueves polytechnics have been able to know what are the steps taken were after earthquakes in Lorca.

In this regard, Juan Roldan, who coordinated the group of technicians who performed the inspection during the first 48 hours, said: "After the first week it was time to go typifying the kinds of damages and award them a kind of intervention."

How to avoid it in the future?

To Roldan, who still remembers not only the material damage found to reach Lorca but also human damage, a top defense in terms of seismic actions after earthquakes is "building on a regular basis both height plan "or avoid those elements with a tendency to detach or break such small pillars or cornices or stone veneers that can jump.

Opening

During the inauguration have intervened the rector of the University, Josefina García Lozano;

President of the Association of Surveyors, Technical Architects and Building Engineers in the Region of Murcia, Antonio Luis Marble;

Juan Roldán;

the president of the ASAT, Ariane Gonzalez, and the president of the Organizing Committee and representative of students in both grades in the UCAM, Natalia Mainar.

They both emphasized the need for students, teachers and schools pull in the same direction in the name of building engineering studies.

"You have an obligation to defend the profession that has many years of history," said the Chancellor of the UCAM.

'The vocation of restoring'

Continue Friday morning in the Temple of The Jeronimos Monastery, home of the UCAM, presentations and workshops.

The day will begin at nine with teacher intervention of Murcia Catholic institution, Enrique Mora, who will speak on the 'safety integration in musical heritage'.

. Besides, at 18:55 h, will be the closing conference which will focus on 'The pathology intervention: the vocation to restore' and run by Professor of Restoration and Rehabilitation in the School of Architecture Camilo José Cela University in Madrid, Juan de Dios de la Hoz.

Source: UCAM