STATIC RESTORATION OF THE HOLY TEMPLE OF "LAMB OF GOD'' AND ADJACENT BUILDINGS ON THE ISLAND OF KOS
YEAR OF MANUFACTURE: 2020-2021
DESCRIPTION:
The project included the Static Restoration & Strengthening of the “Lamb of God” Catholic Church and its accompanying buildings on the island of Kos.
The great earthquake of 2017 in Kos, caused significant structural defects in most of the load-bearing elements of the cylindrical chapel and its accompanying load-bearing masonry buildings, making the use of the church by the Church and the faithful dangerous.
The works carried out concerned the removal of fragile and statically inactive elements of the Temple and accompanying buildings, the removal of coatings, the new grouting of the stone structures, the injection of cement grouts, the strengthening of the existing pillars using anti-corrosive iron mortars reinforcement and repair mortars, the replacement of “Cathedral” type windows and glazing and the general restoration of the buildings to their previous state.
A greater technical challenge was understanding the flow of alternating seismic loading and trying to find the optimal solution for restoring and strengthening the load-bearing masonry.
