The field of construction and building industry was identified as an important market for the use of photocatalytic products since they can be applied to reduce building facades maintenance costs and also the pollution effects, particularly important in metropolis with high population density.
Acting as the glitzy facade while the maintenance work continues behind the scenes is the station's roll call of presenters.
This study intends to give a contribution to the service life prediction of exterior facades, allowing defining rational maintenance plans and reducing the costs associated to the buildings refurbishment during their life cycle.
But the building had had a costly couple of years, which included performing maintenance on the facade and redoing the lobby — the old lobby was alternately described by two apartment owners as "ugly" and like "a border crossing".
This article describes the principles that guided this work, and presents the results obtained with regard to energy consumption, flow of matter, daylight, comfort and, lastly, a detailed life cycle assessment analysis: the various environmental impacts related to the construction, exploitation and maintenance of the facade are presented and discussed.
Applications of these nano-coatings include surfaces where cleanliness is paramount such as in hospitals as well as the maintenance of building facades and protection of public monuments from weathering.
A methodology to implement a maintenance plan for buildings' facades is presented.
Be they in the back rooms of "offices" across the country, or in the homes of their henchmen, the sudden resumption of violence in Lebanon should come as no surprise given the blatant maintenance of arsenals behind the facade of politics.
In most of the cases there is no change in the façade material of street facades and side facades which indicates the attention to their appearance and maintenance, however these spaces are mostly noted as left-out spaces with very limited to no view and access from the buildings (Fig. 2).
And the depreciation could turn out to be real, not just on paper in which case your maintenance budget may fall far short of covering a new facade or pipes or other costly upgrades.
