Service Life and Durability of Assemblies

Abstract

This chapter intends to establish the first approach to the service life prediction methods applied to façades claddings, with three main objectives: i) perform an extensive survey regarding the concepts related with the service life and durability of building components, the methodologies and standardization related to this matter; ii) define the information collected during the field-work, to assess the physical and visual characterization and quantify the degradation condition of the claddings analysed; iii) the characterization of the samples collected during the fieldwork.