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Causal Effects between Criteria That Establish the End of Service Life of Buildings and Components

by
Ana Silva
1,*,
Jorge de Brito
2,
André Thomsen
3,
Ad Straub
3,
Andrés J. Prieto
4 and
Michael A. Lacasse
5
1
CERIS, Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, IST-University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
2
Department of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Georesources, IST-University of Lisbon, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal
3
Department Management in the Built Environment (MBE), Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, Julianalaan 34, 2628 BL Delft, The Netherlands
4
School of Engineering, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Avenida Vicuña Mackenna, Santiago 4860, Chile
5
National Research Council Canada, Construction Research Centre, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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Academic Editor: David Arditi
Buildings 2022, 12(2), 88; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020088
Received: 20 December 2021 / Revised: 6 January 2022 / Accepted: 14 January 2022 / Published: 18 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Buildings: 10th Anniversary)
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In the last decades, considerable work has been done regarding service life prediction of buildings and building components. Academics and members of the CIB W080 commission, as well as of ISO TC 59/SC14, have made several efforts in this area and created a general terminology for the concept of service life, which is extremely relevant for property management, life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costs (LCC) analyses. Various definitions can be found in the literature that share common ideas. In fact, there are different criteria that trigger the end of a building’s service life, but the trap that building practitioners too often fall into and that should be avoided is dividing a problem into separate boxes, labels, and specializations without the mutual cohesion and interaction, and ignoring human behavior. Some definitions of service life are discussed in this review paper, in which the cause-effect processes underlying aging and decay are described. These descriptions highlight the continuous interrelation between different criteria for the end of a building’s service life, considering too often neglected and misunderstood causes of the end of life. View Full-Text
Keywords: service life; buildings’ components; property management service life; buildings’ components; property management
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Silva, A.; de Brito, J.; Thomsen, A.; Straub, A.; Prieto, A.J.; Lacasse, M.A. Causal Effects between Criteria That Establish the End of Service Life of Buildings and Components. Buildings 2022, 12, 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020088

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Silva A, de Brito J, Thomsen A, Straub A, Prieto AJ, Lacasse MA. Causal Effects between Criteria That Establish the End of Service Life of Buildings and Components. Buildings. 2022; 12(2):88. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020088

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Silva, Ana, Jorge de Brito, André Thomsen, Ad Straub, Andrés J. Prieto, and Michael A. Lacasse. 2022. "Causal Effects between Criteria That Establish the End of Service Life of Buildings and Components" Buildings 12, no. 2: 88. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12020088

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