When any structure is taken up for its strengthening or rehabilitation or refurbishment or retrofitting for its rectification, the point of nonavailability of the structure or facility stands on high priority. This is also called as outage of the facility or the structure. Although it is more significant for industrial sector, it is equally important for residential or commercial or other facility or structure.

Planning of structural uplift action for any facility must be invariably made considering the time for which it won’t be available for use. While this outage of the facility calls for optional arrangement for housing the functional activities happening in it, expenses would also include shifting and re-shifting the infrastructure, effects on output of the occupants etc. When it is considered for any industry, it directly affects the production loss and hence more often than not such activities are differed unless they become utmost essential bringing the structure to the threshold of ‘unsafe’ category.

Whatever the structure may be, it is essential to have a strict control over the execution schedule of structural strengthening or rehabilitation or refurbishment or retrofitting such that down time or outage of the facility housing the activity would not be prohibitive for it.

Timely execution of any retrofit activity is a service to Nation. It is economical, it saves energy and resources, it reduces outage of availability of the facility, it gives an opportunity to take up further more assignments, it makes the client of the facility owner satisfaction and happiness.