Inspection, Maintenance and Retrofitting of Existing Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 28 February 2025 | Viewed by 6677
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Interests: project performance; evaluation; decision makings; adaptation and conversion; sustainability
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Interests: building services design and construction; operation and maintenance for buildings; facilities economics and contract management; performance benchmarking and assessment; legislative controls on built facilities
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2. CIDB Centre of Excellence, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg 2092, South Africa
Interests: construction management; plant and machinery management; digital technologies; health and safety; pedagogical research in higher education; business management
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Maintaining and inspecting existing buildings is crucial in meeting the societal goals of sustainable city development. Existing buildings make up a large segment of the built environment and always pose a danger to the general public if not properly maintained. For reasons such as poor quality of construction, poor design detailing, poor design concerns over exposure conditions, low awareness of proper maintenance obligations, and so on, many of the buildings have suffered from early deterioration. As a result, the maintenance and inspection techniques applied to existing buildings have become more demanding regarding accuracy and reliability. Moreover, existing building stocks consume significant amounts of energy worldwide. Most greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are emitted from those existing buildings that are without energy-efficient design and/or construction and operation. Therefore, sustainable building retrofitting has emerged as a significant urban rehabilitation theme and provides vast palpable opportunities for improving the performance of the existing building stock. Hence, calls to develop advanced computer-aided analysis methods and decision-making modelling are often made to support retrofitting strategies for existing building stock management.
In light of the above, the objective of this Special Issue is to cover the following topics that are relevant to improving knowledge of the maintenance, inspection, and sustainable retrofitting of existing buildings:
- Advanced inspection techniques and maintenance technology
- Digital modelling of the existing building stock
- Application of building information modelling
- Sustainability and maintainability in the existing building stock
- Greening/energy retrofitting of the existing building stock
- Maintenance strategies for existing buildings
- Decision-making models to support building maintenance management
- Governance, e.g., legislation and policy
Dr. Michael Sing
Prof. Dr. Joseph Lai
Prof. Dr. David Edwards
Prof. Dr. Nayanthara De Silva
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- existing building
- inspection and maintenance techniques
- decision-making model
- building stock
- sustainable retrofitting
- governance
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