The importance of knowing the service life of buildings and their components is recognized.
Several studies have been developed, in different countries, to address this research topic …

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 …

In this study, a methodology for the service life prediction of architectural concrete facades is
proposed, following a research line previously developed for other types of claddings, to …

Nowadays, the degradation of the built environment is becoming a serious economic,
cultural and environmental problem in several developed countries, after several decades of …

Life-cycle assessment (LCA) is increasingly used to quantify the environmental impacts of
construction materials. However, the relationship between the durability and LCA of these …

An application of a factor method for stone cladding directly adhered to the substrate is
proposed. The quantification of the reference service life and of the sub-factors that influence …

Buildings and their systems naturally tend to deteriorate over time, losing some of their
original properties. The buildings' envelope is more susceptible to the degradation process …

This study proposes a methodology for developing deterioration models and predicting the
service lives of vertical assets of urban water systems (ie, water storage tanks and pumping …

In this study, the time-dependent stochastic degradation of three types of claddings is
analysed. For this purpose, 203 façades with stone claddings (directly adhered to the …

Existing maintenance policies have several limitations, mainly due to the lack of knowledge
regarding the durability and performance of buildings. Usually, the maintenance policies are …