Life Cycle Prediction and Maintenance of Buildings

Brito, Jorge de; Silva, Ana

doi:10.3390/buildings10060112

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“…Over time, the residential building industry has grown by incorporating new technologies in different construction phases, including planning and execution [82]. Building professionals should also be aware of the current techniques and information to optimize executions, maintenance, rehabilitation procedures, belief in the mechanism of degradation, and the risk of quality over time [83]. VM represents one of the most important technologies to enhance projects.…”

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Critical Value Management Activities in Building Projects: A Case of Egypt

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Value management (VM) is one of the principles adopted by stakeholders to manage issues in the building industry. This paper aims to examine VM diffusion between residential building entities in the Egyptian residential building industry. This research was confined to the Cairo and Giza regions, with enough residential building experience from clients, consultants, and contractors. A quantitative questionnaire survey was generated to find answers from those active in the residential building industry. The results show that although VM’s most widely practiced activities in the Egyptian construction industry are only information phase activities, professionals in Egyptian building projects agreed that all VM activities are important. The results also demonstrated that there is a significant positive correlation among VM phases. The results constitute activities for the adoption of VMs in Egypt. Its guidelines will dramatically enhance the implementation of VMs both in Egypt and in other developing countries where similar projects are conducted. Finally, this research strengthens the residential building industry’s present management by enhancing VM tools and elements to generate value for money.

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“…Functional construction design and maintainability design have equal importance to the life span and cost of a system or a component (Guo et al , 2018). Construction of facilities, systems and components should (be made to) support their future maintenance throughout their life cycle (de Brito and Silva, 2020). Two USM factors are validated under the construction stage.…”

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Urban space maintainability factors based on life cycle approach

Rathnasiri,

De Silva,

Wijesundara

2023

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Purpose The maintainability of urban spaces has become critical with rapid urbanization to create an effective and safe environment for the increasing population. The absence of scientific studies exploring the factors that affect urban space maintainability (USM) has hindered the incorporation of maintainability aspects during the urban space planning and designing stages. This paper aims to establish critical factors for USM. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative content analysis is performed under an abductive approach to developing USM factors. A bibliometric search is conducted using databases including Scopus Elsevier, Emerald Insight, Science Direct, IEEE XPLORE and the American Society of Civil Engineers. The selected primary data set comprises journal papers on USM published after 2000. Seventy-three journal articles are selected through a comprehensive screening procedure and subjected to further analysis. The literature findings are processed via a software-assisted systematic coding and visualizing of the key data using NVivo 12 software. The coded USM factors are validated based on experts’ consensus statements by conducting an expert focus group discussion. Findings Twelve critical factors are established for USM; they include six design stage-related factors, one construction stage-related factor and five operational stage-related factors. Research limitations/implications Established USM factors give an insight into the main focus areas when incorporating maintainability into urban spaces. Originality/value The authors establish a set of maintainability factors for urban spaces based on the life cycle stages. USM factors such as vegetation management, interdepartmental coordination and work zone safety draw attention to context-specific aspects of USM.

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“…However, the above study failed to account for several crucial characteristics, including human resources, flexibility, and technical capability, leaving the study incomplete. In addition, none of the studies that attempted to prioritize the M&R technique (e.g., [29,30]) accounted for extremely constrained and unequally distributed resources [31]. As revealed by Vanier et al [32], selection of M&R techniques is largely dependent on the weights assigned to elements by evaluators, which vary based on culture and organizational necessity.…”

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Determining the Essential Criteria for Choosing Appropriate Methods for Maintenance and Repair of Iraqi Healthcare Building Facilities

Chan,

Sadeq,

Sarvari

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Today, building maintenance and repair (M&R) is a neglected aspect of the construction business throughout a building’s entire life cycle. Selecting appropriate M&R strategies is crucial, particularly for emerging economies like Iraq with severely constrained resources. This study seeks to identify the primary selection criteria for M&R methods of healthcare building facilities (HBFs) in Iraq. A comprehensive desktop literature analysis was undertaken to extract and determine the essential selection criteria for the most suited M&R approaches to buildings in general. Then, two rounds of the Delphi survey were conducted to consolidate the specific selection criteria to suit the circumstances of Iraq and HBFs. A total of 21 sub-criteria were identified and divided into six main groups. The main criteria and the associated sub-criteria were then analyzed and ranked using the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (FAHP) technique. The ranking of the various main criteria revealed that the “cost” criterion was ranked first in terms of importance, followed by the “human resources” and “quality” criteria. The fourth, fifth, and sixth main criteria are “reliability/flexibility”, “safety/risk/environment”, and “facilities/technology”, respectively. The overall ranking of the sub-criteria placed “optimization and cost reduction” in the first position and “extending the life of the equipment and preserving their initial quality” in the bottom place. It is anticipated that the key findings and effective recommendations of this study will considerably contribute to the improvement of building maintenance and repair management practices in developing nations while enhancing different stakeholders’ understanding of the most important selection criteria for M&R methods, particularly with regard to healthcare building facilities in Iraq.

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Life Cycle Prediction and Maintenance of Buildings

Abstract: The sustainability of the built environment can only be achieved through the maintenance planning of built facilities during their life cycle, considering social, economic, functional, technical, and ecological aspects [...]

Cited by 15 publications

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Critical Value Management Activities in Building Projects: A Case of Egypt

Critical Value Management Activities in Building Projects: A Case of Egypt

Urban space maintainability factors based on life cycle approach

Determining the Essential Criteria for Choosing Appropriate Methods for Maintenance and Repair of Iraqi Healthcare Building Facilities

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