Buildings, Vol. 13, Pages 785: Service Life Prediction of Painted Renderings Using Maintenance Data through Regression Techniques

Buildings, Vol. 13, Pages 785: Service Life Prediction of Painted Renderings Using Maintenance Data through Regression Techniques

Buildings doi: 10.3390/buildings13030785

Authors: André Petersen Ana Silva Marco González

The increase in rehabilitation actions motivated further research in the scope of service life and/or building maintenance. In defining rational strategies for the buildings’ maintenance, reliable tools that model their performance over time are needed. This research evaluates the impact of maintenance actions on painted renderings. More specifically, the objective of this research is to adapt and extend an existing method, evaluating new periods of service life, with and without maintenance actions, in order to be able to regionalize and expand the existing results. This research was carried out based on an extensive fieldwork survey of painted renderings of facades in vertical buildings in the city of Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil, at different times (before, during and after the execution of maintenance actions). For renderings without maintenance actions, an average service life of 14 years is obtained. After maintenance actions, especially cleaning, the estimated average service life is 16 years. After maintenance, cleaning and partial repair actions, the estimated average service life is 34 years. For painted surfaces without maintenance actions, an average service life of 10 years is estimated. After cleaning actions, the estimated average service life is 11 years. After maintenance (cleaning, partial repair actions on renderings and repainting), the average service life is 15 years, until the last period of service life that precedes the end of the rendering’s life cycle.