Analyzing the Finishing Works Service Life Pattern of Public Housing in South Korea by Probabilistic Approach

Soyeon Park, Yonghan Ahn and Sanghyo Lee
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Soyeon Park: Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Korea
Yonghan Ahn: Department of Architectural Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Korea
Sanghyo Lee: Division of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Kangwon National University, Samcheok 25913, Korea

Sustainability, 2018, vol. 10, issue 12, 1-15

Abstract: Over recent decades, it has become essential to establish preventive long-term maintenance plans for public housing developments. Also, deterministic maintenance strategies have been increasingly replaced by those based on reliability and risk, which are probabilistic. Efforts to obtain optimized long-term maintenance plans have included management of service life and prediction of service lifetime. Accordingly, the present research develops a system for various finishing works of public housing and analyzes the service life pattern of each component using a probabilistic approach. For the analysis, this research analyzed 46,201 South Korean public housing maintenance records from the last 21 years and determined the maintenance frequency distribution. The purpose of the research is to suggest efficient long-term maintenance plans using the analyzed results of service life patterns. Results from the analysis showed that each component has a different service life pattern that can be applied to establish the service lifetime and decision making for floating maintenance. Since the interaction between finishing works is affected due to various components and parameters, the results are useful to reduce the uncertainty and risk of deterministic maintenance plans. The meaning of this research is to analyze the service life pattern using a probabilistic approach and recommend how to establish an efficient maintenance system.

Keywords: long-term maintenance plan; public housing; service life distribution; probabilistic approach; finishing work (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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