Implications of climate change in the implementation of maintenance planning and use of building inspection systems

J. Barrelas; Q. Ren; C. Pereira

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Authors:

J. Barrelas (Joana Alexandra Mirante Barrelas); Q. Ren; C. Pereira (Clara Isabel Fernandes Pereira)

Published in

May 2021

Abstract

Alterations in climate parameters and severe weather events, within the context of anthropogenic climate change, will likely lead to soil instability and harsher exposure conditions of the building’s enclosures, having direct implications on the acceleration of degradation phenomenon. Maintenance planning needs to be improved, to minimise predicted effects of climate-induced risks on a vulnerable built environment, contributing to the sustainability and resilience of constructions. The purpose of this research is to make a literature review on the topic of climate change adaptation and building maintenance and use it as the base to point out possible further developments regarding maintenance planning contribution to the adaptation of building stock man- agement. The implementation of maintenance activities with this aim is still incipient and based on theoretical approaches. Despite the scarcity of research on this topic, the literature covers several relevant complementary tools to maintenance planning, also included in the present paper, considering their essential role to the efficient implementation of climate change adapted maintenance. Future works lay on: (i) the development of tools that connect climate agents to buildings degradation, (ii) their integrated contribution to maintenance planning and (iii) the optimized use of inspection systems.