Method for assessing maintenance and maintainability in residential buildings-one of the basic categories of the social aspect of sustainable construction

Abstract

The article presents a proposal for a method of evaluation of one of the six main categories describing the social aspect of sustainable construction, category K5 maintenance and maintainability. The selection of proper criteria for the category assessment is based, among others, on standard EN 16309+A1:2014-12. The article presents ways of assessing different characteristics by describing the category of maintenance and maintainability. Literature studies and numerous surveys are carried out in order to determine threshold values as well as the importance of the features characterizing the examined category. Then the way of obtaining an aggregated assessment of the examined category is presented. The obtained result is then compared with an identical reference object, enabling so to determine the degree of fulfilment of the social properties contained in the analysed category. Ultimately, an analogous assessment for each of the six categories describing the social aspect of sustainable construction will make it possible to determine the social quality of residential buildings and to classify them according to the characteristics studied.