The Life Cycle of a Building as a Technical Object

Abstract

In solving problems associated with maintaining buildings in good condition, it is important to recognise the changes in operational reliability of these buildings over their lifetime. The prediction of reliability of buildings erected in traditional technology is a process requiring multiple generalizations, due to the complexity of their structures, various susceptibility to the influence of external factors, various exploitation practices, and many other issues. One of the simplifications is the perception of the building as a technical object. The presented life cycle of a building is based on the adaptation of mathematical models describing the reliability of mechanical and electronic devices. The article presents the methodology of prediction of operational reliability of a building, and the values of performance features are defined by the parameters of the Rayleigh distribution function.