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Sustainable Technologies and Measures for Urban and Building Rehabilitation

A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Civil Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 October 2024) | Viewed by 1111

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Interests: building pathology; current buildings; construction technology; inspection systems; design solutions

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Urban and building rehabilitation represent an intrinsic, although often overlooked, part of the sustainability triangle. Some examples of their contribution include lowering land use for urbanisation processes, contributing to the emotional connection of people with their place of living, improving living and working conditions, revitalising existing jobs and creating new ones, and promoting new businesses and new activities for those already established.

Still, more must be done, namely inciting more efficient and effective technologies and measures. Proposed and applied solutions need to be conclusively proven to be better than current procedures or policies, according to different parameters, while promoting the in-vogue (and imperative) more sustainable built environment.

Potential topics for this Special Issue include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Means to increase the durability of existing buildings;
  • New procedures for maintenance and conservation activities, limiting environmental impacts;
  • Adaptation of traditional materials and adoption of innovative ones, limiting environmental impacts;
  • The adoption of digital twins in current existing buildings, and its challenges and opportunities.

Dr. Clara Pereira
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • durability of existing buildings
  • maintenance and conservation
  • environmental impacts
  • repair techniques
  • traditional materials
  • innovative materials
  • digital twins

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Operationalisation of Building Inspections and Repair: Systematisation-Based Approach
by Clara Pereira and Ana Silva
Appl. Sci. 2024, 14(16), 6947; https://doi.org/10.3390/app14166947 - 8 Aug 2024
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The possibility of diagnosing and repairing specific sets of defects (those with more severe consequences and impact on the degradation of building components) with the same means is considered. It is important to optimise the planning and kick-off of building inspections by using, [...] Read more.
The possibility of diagnosing and repairing specific sets of defects (those with more severe consequences and impact on the degradation of building components) with the same means is considered. It is important to optimise the planning and kick-off of building inspections by using, from the start, a predetermined set of equipment and to optimise the maintenance and rehabilitation of the building envelope in terms of funds invested and resources. An existing methodology is used to create inter-defect correlation matrices, taking into account an expert knowledge-based building inspection system. The main results include a set of essential diagnosis methods—crack measuring and monitoring; temperature and moisture measurement; infrared thermography; and water absorption tests—and the identification of the most transversal repair techniques—cleaning; protection coating; replacement/reapplication of claddings/glazing; re-application of finishing coats or more adequate claddings—which were also analysed in terms of resource consumption, as a preliminary approach to their life-cycle assessment. The main conclusions indicate that there is still a long path to cover in the field of life-cycle assessment of repair techniques, which can be extended to the application of diagnosis methods. Full article
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