Abstract:
The purposes of this research were to study (1) the state of house renovation 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 footing and 4) relocate
the house. The renovation process needed house lifting, building structures editing, wall
strengthening, and whole structure relocating.