Nowadays it’s become a very important topic. We are staying in modern age so lot of projects including infrastructure already has been built up and providing their services for several years but going to be obsolete very soon. Now to demolish all those structures and to rebuilt it, will not only be losses of lot of finance but also disturb the serviceability for a long time.

Due to some natural calamities like earthquake few of the very important structures also loses their functionality.

In all those cases retrofitting and rehabilitation became a very useful knowledge. With help of this knowledge, we not only able to sustain the structure, rather it is also possible to enhance the capacity of the existing structures.

Nowadays different private, public owner including government also interested to make their existing structure sustainable for future. Sometime they even want to increase the strength of the existing structure.

Here, retrofitting and rehabilitation, a very important area of civil engineering takes a very significant role.