Documentation and Maintenance Planning Model – DoMaP A response to the need for conservation and long-term maintenance of façades of modern multi-apartment buildings Based on case studies in Göteborg in Sweden
Doctoral thesis, 2009

Sustainable maintenance and renovation of façades on generic multi-apartment buildings from late 1950s through 70s constitute vital challenges for the housing companies owned by City of Göteborg. These challenges comprise a wide array of issues, such as deterioration and damages in occurring façade materials, status assessments, technical improvements, reduction of energy consumption, and up-keeping of housing qualities and tenants attraction. Thus, new approaches to data-acquisition are called for. The presented Documentation and Maintenance Planning model (DoMaP) is a proposal for a new approach to acquisition of various types of data from façades of modern generic multi-apartment buildings. The DoMaP model aims at substantial contribution to stringent status assessment of façades, and thus, to enable long-term maintenance planning, providing adequate conditions for integrated sustainable conservation. The DoMaP model is based mainly on optical techniques (i.e. metric as well as non-metric). Techniques for air pollution monitoring, and for material analysis are included in the DoMaP configuration. The benefits of this new comprehensive approach to data-acquisition may be summarised in provisions for increase both of efficiency (i.e. resource utilisation) and effectiveness (i.e. productivity and quality) of façade-maintenance operations, thus also contributing to sustain technical service-life and functions of residential structures. Finally, it is important to stress that information provided by the DoMaP-approach would be of relevance to identify characteristics of built environments, and thus contributing to any process of valorisation of built environments.

public housing companies

façade-materials

Sustainable integrated conservation

long-term maintenance operations

deterioration

optical measurement techniques

generic multi-apartment buildings

Sal 10:an, Göteborgs universitets huvudbyggnad, Vasaparken, Göteborg
Opponent: Dr. Stefano Della Torre, Professor at Department Building Environment Sciences and Technology, University of Technology in Milan, Italy

Author

Pär Meiling

Chalmers, Chemical and Biological Engineering, Environmental Inorganic Chemistry

Chalmers, Centre for Environment and Sustainability (GMV)

Subject Categories

Cultural Studies

Other Materials Engineering

Building Technologies

ISBN

978-91-7385-221-0

Doktorsavhandlingar vid Chalmers tekniska högskola. Ny serie: 2902

Sal 10:an, Göteborgs universitets huvudbyggnad, Vasaparken, Göteborg

Opponent: Dr. Stefano Della Torre, Professor at Department Building Environment Sciences and Technology, University of Technology in Milan, Italy

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10/8/2017