During tight financial times, and since the resources dedicated to the maintenance and operation of school buildings infrastructures come mainly from the state budget, the maintenance and operation budgets are frequently among the first cuts.
A need for an efficient decision support tool for planning of office building refurbishment is emerging due to the significant increase in the number of ageing buildings in the world. In order to meet this need, all the aspects of building refurbishment projects such as waste minimisation and management, structural strengthening and floor space optimisation, estimation of residual life and construction management issues need to be integrated.
The performance or service life prediction of building systems and their components is a very difficult and complex task. Though many technical papers related to aterial and component durability have been published over the past two decades, they had a negligible impact on the development of an effective approach for forecasting refurbishment and renewal expenditure.
This paper assesses the potential consequences and associated risk levels for a major explosion following catastrophic failure of an hypothetical hydrogen-containing plant operating at elevated temperature and pressure. The plant is mooted as being located in an industrial area but with residential areas nearby. It considers the importance of fully open-air construction of such plants, of sufficient separation from surrounding communities and of free vertical discharge from pressure relief evices.
This paper outlines some of the benefits achieved at Powercor Australia through the evolution of asset management methodologies and their application. It considers recent history and the knowledge gained throughout the journey with particular emphasis upon efficient work packaging through improving diagnostic techniques. Click here to read more