House Lifting Local Wisdom in Buriram Province

Abstract

The purposes of this research were to study (1) the renovation state of houses and (2) the house lifting local wisdom of technicians in Buri Ram province. The qualitative study was used by investigating six groups of technicians. It was found that the technicians raised the house lifting wisdom by their own experiences without the engineering or architecture education background. The house lifting generated by local technicians could be applied to houses made from wood, wood and masonry, and also reinforced concrete houses. The result showed that house renovations were needed to; 1) solve settlement problem 2) extend the floor to floor height 3) strengthen the house column and footingand 4) relocate the house. The renovation process needed house lifting, building structures editing, wall strengthening, and whole structure relocating.