The other day I was reading some criticism of LEED for Homes and the building durability section of LEED-H, which lead me to probably the best resource / guideline I've seen on practical building durability. It is publisehd by Building Science Corporation:
Increasing the Durability of Building Constructions
One interesting this is the discussion of life-span of various building components, and therefore the serviceability / replaceability of said component. For example, if you have a 100-year design life for a house, but windows only have a 20-year life, then we should be taking design measures to facilitate easy replacement of windows - because they are going to get replaced 5 times of the life of that building.
If you are interested in building durability and building sustainability, then buidling science.com should be defiantly on your reading / resource bookmark list. They have lots of great, practical building science articles, papers and discussions.
Saturday, February 14, 2009
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