Designing Buildings for Minimum Maintenance to Achieve Sustainability
Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: This paper aims at exploring the potential of maintenance factors in achieving sustainability of structures. The builders should target at design features and construction details that make the buildings live longer with stability, so that the factors leading to replacement of certain parts of structures are minimized. This will in turn save energy and hence increase sustainability of the structure. The defects in buildings are investigated to discover various reasons and factors that lead to building maintenance problems. A study of design features that lead to Sustainable design is performed. An attempt has been made to correlate the factors relating to minimum maintenance and design features of Sustainability. The paper finally concludes that there are certain common agenda in the list of both of these issues, that when taken care of will ultimately handle buildings with more care and make them more sustainable.
Source: Architecture Research
Author: Sharmin Khan
Language: English
Subfield: Building and Construction
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W107802296