1. Life Cycle Management of Concrete Infrastructures for Improved Sustainability
Objectives: to develop and validate an open and generic European model of an integrated, optimising and predictive Life Cycle Maintenance and Management Planning System (LMS)
Results:
INNOVATIONS OF LIFECON:
An Open, Integrated, Predictive and Optimising
Life Cycle Facility Management System (LMS)
Integrated:
Human requirements
Lifetime monetary economy
Cultural requirements
Ecology ( life time economy of nature)
Predictive
Performance and service life modelling
Residual service life prediction
Quantitative classification of
degradation loads
Optimising
Modular product systematics
Reliability theory
Markovian chain
QFD, MADA
Mathematical modelling of
performance and optimising
Thematic modules and their main interaction in Lifecon LMS
References:
Life Cycle Management of Concrete Infrastructures for Improved Sustainability LIFECON. Coordinator: Professor Asko Sarja, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland
Sarja, Asko, Predictive and Optimising Life Cycle Management of Buildings and Infrastructures. Manuscript pp. To be published by SPON PRESS Taylor Francise, London, 2005.
Cluster “LIFETIME” coordinating organisations:
VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, FI
(coordinator of the cluster: Prof. Dr. Asko Sarja,
Taylor Woodrow Construction Ltd, UK
CSTB Centre Scientifique et Technique du Bâtiment, FR
Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, UK
Universität Essen, DE