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The construction, operation and maintenance, and end of life stages compose the life-cycle of buildings. The operation and maintenance stage, comprising the service life of buildings, may be associated with more than half of their life-cycle costs. Given that importance, it is essential to plan maintenance to optimise costs and keep acceptable performance levels of the buildings, postponing the end of the service life. Within a building, its envelope is paramount to withstand external aggressions and guarantee minimum comfort levels for the occupants. But buildings are complex systems composed of several different assemblies/materials, which increases the uncertainty levels of planning and performing building maintenance. To deal with that uncertainty, predictive maintenance relies on the planned and systematised collection and analysis of information on building elements to adapt maintenance actions accordingly. Inspection systems provide the methodology and tools for that collection and analysis of information. Various inspection systems have already been developed, some more focused on divulging information, others trying to provide customised diagnosis, and others with a solid and broad information structure. Among those, a set of identically structured inspection systems for individual elements of the building envelope was selected as the basis for developing a global inspection system.
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de Brito, J., Pereira, C., Silvestre, J., Flores-Colen, I. (2020). Buildings’ Management. In: Expert Knowledge-based Inspection Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42446-6_1
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