Use of three dimensional laser scanner to substrate/mortar contact area quantification and main parameters affecting this property identification -- ETICS’ pathologies -- Criteria for application and identification of anomalies on the façades of buildings with the use of passive infrared thermography -- The wind driving rain and the building pathologies: directional driving rain, experimental simulation and quantification of wetness areas -- Good practice: analysis of the vulnerability of the seven churches of Monza -- On the use of infrared thermographic measurements for evaluating the airtightness of the building envelope -- Risk assessment of urban fire - Proposal of a method for analysis and management of existing building -- Evaluation of moisture transfer in external plaster finishing to improve their conservation -- The use of fibre reinforced polymers in the rehabilitation of damaged masonry walletes -- Energy efficient rehabilitation measures for the Portuguese residential buildings constructed in the 1960-1990 period -- Ventilation system for drying out buildings after a flood -- Permeability assessment from porous size distribution function.