Robert Bucoń

Decision-making model for choosing residential building repair variants

AbstractDuring the use of buildings it becomes necessary to carry out repair works including modernisation. Deciding on the choice of repair solutions is a difficult and complex task. Building administrators have to consider both, the benefits of some repair works, and limitations due to the availability of funds. Selection of a repair solution, bearing in mind the above, requires a comprehensive approach that will allow assessment of the building condition and determining the repair scope required. The research conducted by the authors was aimed at developing a decision-making model and its computer-aided implementation, taking into account a number of operating demands. The system algorithm proposed comprises five stages including: building condition assessment, building use value evaluation, repair classification, multiple variants of repair and the choice of repair solutions. The article describes individual stages of the model in detail, giving numerical application examples of the method for repair ...

Supporting building administrator’s decisions in determining maintenance costs of residential buildings

AbstractMaintenance of multi-family buildings is a difficult and complex task, which requires a proper (multi-criteria) assessment of a building’s condition as well as determining and planning maintenance costs. It requires from a building administrator to be well experienced and have skills in making decisions, which include a proper investment of limited funds allocated for maintenance. This task is usually preceded by the analysis of cost-effectiveness and validity to perform certain repairs. Taking into account the above the authors proposed a model supporting an administrator in making decisions while determining a scope of building renovation. The system algorithm proposed comprises a few stages including: building condition and its proposed repair evaluation and the choice of renovation variant. It is based on tools such as multicriteria methods to support decisions and linear programming. Calculations conducted using the suggested model allow an administrator to obtain key information for appropri...

Analysis of green solutions for new residential projects

Abstract Improvement of the ecological aspect in residential buildings is connected with the need for high investment expenses, which meets with little interest from investors, who are mainly interested in decreasing investment building costs rather than maintenance costs or environmental protection. To change this attitude, it is necessary to evaluate the validity of applications in terms of pro-ecological solutions, technologies and materials used. This is the basis for developing a mathematical decision support model when choosing ecological solutions. Application is demonstrated on the example of the selection of ecological solutions for a residential building.