Refurbishment of the existing housing stock is a strategic objective of the Italian housing policy for the next years. This policy wants to satisfy the changing housing demand and aims to improve the quality of the housing estates. The assessment of size and condition of the large public housing estates is still the main problem for the development of the refurbishment strategies. On the other hand, the assessment procedures should give the information required to establish the feasibility of refurbishment works, considering the interdependencies between socio-technological-commercial aspects and economic constraints. The paper presents the methodological framework of a first stage research project funded by the Ministry of Scientific Research and carried out by the University of Ferrara (Department of Architecture) and the University of Milan (Polytechnic). The research project concerns the study of relationships between dynamics of decay and the incidence of refurbishment costs in the evaluation of building maintenance programs. The objective is to develop a methodological approach and the attendant procedural systems to support decisions on refurbishment programmes considering the relationships between buildings condition assessment and maintenance costs analysis The work is focused on the assessment procedures of building decay and maintenance costs for the evaluation of maintenance strategies and it aims to define building refurbishment costs with an overall view of quality aspects and cost parameters. The paper explains the main steps that will be developed in the research project which consists of three work packages: - definition of a condition assessment procedure, based on “condition scores”, to evaluate buildings decay and maintenance costs required to refurbish them; - analysis of the interdependence between decay trends and cost rates to define “global cost evaluation” factors; - development of the framework of a decision support system to evaluate feasibility and opportunity of refurbishment programmes.
Relationships between building condition assessment and maintenance costs in the evaluation of real estates refurbishment programmes
DI GIULIO, Roberto
2002
Abstract
Refurbishment of the existing housing stock is a strategic objective of the Italian housing policy for the next years. This policy wants to satisfy the changing housing demand and aims to improve the quality of the housing estates. The assessment of size and condition of the large public housing estates is still the main problem for the development of the refurbishment strategies. On the other hand, the assessment procedures should give the information required to establish the feasibility of refurbishment works, considering the interdependencies between socio-technological-commercial aspects and economic constraints. The paper presents the methodological framework of a first stage research project funded by the Ministry of Scientific Research and carried out by the University of Ferrara (Department of Architecture) and the University of Milan (Polytechnic). The research project concerns the study of relationships between dynamics of decay and the incidence of refurbishment costs in the evaluation of building maintenance programs. The objective is to develop a methodological approach and the attendant procedural systems to support decisions on refurbishment programmes considering the relationships between buildings condition assessment and maintenance costs analysis The work is focused on the assessment procedures of building decay and maintenance costs for the evaluation of maintenance strategies and it aims to define building refurbishment costs with an overall view of quality aspects and cost parameters. The paper explains the main steps that will be developed in the research project which consists of three work packages: - definition of a condition assessment procedure, based on “condition scores”, to evaluate buildings decay and maintenance costs required to refurbish them; - analysis of the interdependence between decay trends and cost rates to define “global cost evaluation” factors; - development of the framework of a decision support system to evaluate feasibility and opportunity of refurbishment programmes.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.