Platform for facades durability analysis and its implementation in Olsztyn, Poland

Abstract

This project aims to implement a methodology to determine the durability of the facades of civil buildings in the town of Olsztyn, Poland. This methodology was previously developed at the Building Laboratory of the Building Engineering School of Barcelon, one of the schools of the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC). The implementation of the methodology has been developed in the context of a cooperation agreement between the UPC and the Faculty of Geodesy and Land Management at the University of Warmia and Mazury, of the aforementioned Polish city. Of it is expected to lay the foundations to create a core research in Poland, which encourage future researchers to further develop the methodology in a different environment than the explored so far, thus achieving new findings and improving the existing procedure against new difficulties. As for this methodology is referred it deals with the study on durability of statistical techniques in structural elements, such as building facades. The study starts by exploring the state of degradation of these elements in different cities by designing a systematic collection of data. The main goal is to establish degrees of involvement and, at the same time, assess if we conclude with would define benchmarks for proving the durability behavior of injuries in facades across. In the literature on survival in the building environment, it appears that this is a very young field in the scientific environment, and in which research is still short. However, we believe that it has a notable interest to find reliable criteria to provide knowledge in order to establish preventive measures for the conservation and maintenance, which are in favor of sustainability, economy and social coherence in the sector of building. To achieve the proposal we have deepened into the understanding of survival statistical science and how they can identify enough robust estimators that are able to respond to the items to be pursued in this work through the observed data in a representative sample. The conclusions that this paper reaches provide an important qualitative progress towards the stated objectives and, in turn, raises what should the strategies and analysis techniques be in future research. This is the reason why we are satisfied with the achievements, because it shows us the way to achieve major goals in the knowledge of survival techniques applied to building.