Using Orthophotography Based on BuildingsLife Software to Inspect Building Facades
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 28, Issue 5
Abstract
The financial resources available for infrastructure maintenance and rehabilitation are always limited, creating a need for efficient resources management and for the ability to predict maintenance actions throughout the infrastructure service period. In the context of bridges, management systems have been developed and are already implemented around the world. A much larger variety of maintenance problems and a small number of buildings per owner mean that building management systems are still quite rare. Efficient approaches to the management of building maintenance still need to be developed. The first step in a building management system (BdMS) is the collection of data through inspection procedures to detect and measure the defects, and to characterize the building, which is always a time-consuming task. Software solutions were specially developed within a recently developed BdMS to perform accurate and quick inspections of defects on building façades, using essentially the information obtained in a visual and photographic inspection. This paper describes additional software tools, showing how they help building inspection in terms of characterizing and quantifying several anomalies in façades.
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Acknowledgments
The writers wish to acknowledge GATEWIT SA for its support with the application of the BuildingsLife platform. The writers are also grateful for the support of the Instituto de Engenharia de Estruturas, Território e Construção (ICIST) Research Institute, Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, and Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT).
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Volume 28 • Issue 5 • October 2014
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Received: Apr 2, 2013
Accepted: Nov 4, 2013
Published online: Nov 6, 2013
Published in print: Oct 1, 2014
Discussion open until: Oct 28, 2014
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