The Assessment of the Refurbished Reinforced Concrete Buildings in Point of the Climate Change

Abstract:

Changes in climate have various impacts on the built environment: e.g. the building design and the materials together with the operation and the maintenance. Therefore, it is extremely important to account for the future weather conditions during both the design of new buildings and the renovation of existing buildings. According to the Hungarian meteorological researches as a consequence of the global warming the climate of Hungary is going to become warmer and drier as well as the number and the intensity of the extreme weather events is expected to grow. One of the main directions of actions in the Climate Change Strategy is the adaptation to the changing circumstances, the improvement of the adaptive capacity of the built environment. In this study, the prefabricated reinforced concrete large-panel residential buildings are analysed: a bottom-up methodology was developed based on typological approach to assess the vulnerability of the ‘panel buildings’ to climate change by analysing the extreme weather events. After assessing the sensitivity and the adaptive capacity of the determined building types, their vulnerability to the increased number of windstorms and extreme rainfalls was estimated and the influence of their refurbishment was analysed.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volume 899)
• Pages: 440-445
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.899.440
• Online since: February 2014
• Authors: Sára Hrabovszky-Horváth*
• Keywords: Adaptation, Climate Change, Extreme Rainfall, Vulnerability, Windstorm

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