2018 Volume 24 Issue 57 Pages 517-522
Longevity of building is highly essential from the viewpoint of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA). In order to promote the longevity of building, it is necessary to achieve three basic concepts: (1) assurance of safety and quality, (2) decrease of environmental load, and (3) increase of cost effectiveness of construction.
This paper presents a case study to rationalize the maintenance priority for aging buildings. The proposed method is applied to maintenance for a nonstructural member of the large-scale industrial building such as thermal power station etc. As a result, the proposed maintenance priority judgment method was confirmed to a highly effective manner reducing both cost and environmental load in LCA.
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