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Maintenance of Building Elements to Fulfill the Basic Requirements Buildings

Regulations define the basic requirements for buildings, which ensure the safety and comfort of users. Fulfillment of these requirements depends on the buildings’ condition, i.e. its elements, which are affected by the use and various planned and unplanned effects. In addition to physical wear and tear, the service life often is shortened due to the lag of the building behind technological and economic progress. Therefore, proper and timely maintenance is required, and sometimes capital renewal and reconstruction. The article provides an overview of maintenance measures for the main building elements, from control to repairs and eventually to replacement. Availability of financial resources dictates how and when these measures will be conducted. In this respect, the costs of measures for maintenance and improvement of building properties in line with the new requirements are analyzed. Lifelong maintenance costs should be taken into account from the conception and design stage, because then the basic characteristics of the building are determined and, as a rule, increasing capital investment in construction can reduce the maintenance costs that will be required for numerous years. In some cases, major renovations on buildings that are already in use are also cost-effective. By time-linking the reconstruction and renovation with regular building maintenance multiplication of some works and the costs required would be avoided, leading to higher profitability of such projects.

Prescribed requirements, Building elements, Degrading impacts, Service life, Maintenance, Improvement, Cost-effectiveness

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