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Publications in Scientific Journals:

P. Meiling, G. Esser, N. Pfeifer, J. Rosvall:
"Optical Documentation Techniques for Condition Assessment of Facades: A Tentative Evaluation of Three Case Studies Executed in Göteborg and Vienna";
International Journal of Architectural Heritage, 5- 2 (2011), 123 - 139.



English abstract:
A growing need of relevant information for long-term planning is a vital issue for actors involved in management and maintenance of built heritage, as well as of built environments at large. Maintaining a building´s function, and identifying appropriate upgrading interventions in accordance to developing need of tenants, users, and legislation, are vital activities in real estate management.
Through its subsidiary companies the publicly owned real estate and housing corporation "Förvaltnings AB Framtiden" (Inc.) in Göteborg in Sweden is administering 70.000 apartments. In Vienna the "Wiener Wohnen" is an Austrian municipal housing corporation, administering 220.000 apartments. The dimensions of such building stocks indicate the relevance of user-friendly yet stringent methods for acquisition of valid information about types of construction, materials, and related issues of deterioration.
A combination of existing and new methods for documentation and condition assessment of building façades, primarily based on optical techniques and material analysis techniques, has been designed and tested in accordance to the needed information indicated.
This paper reports on the outcome of three case-studies comparing three methods for developing digital image-textured 3D-models of existing buildings.

German abstract:
A growing need of relevant information for long-term planning is a vital issue for actors involved in management and maintenance of built heritage, as well as of built environments at large. Maintaining a building´s function, and identifying appropriate upgrading interventions in accordance to developing need of tenants, users, and legislation, are vital activities in real estate management.
Through its subsidiary companies the publicly owned real estate and housing corporation "Förvaltnings AB Framtiden" (Inc.) in Göteborg in Sweden is administering 70.000 apartments. In Vienna the "Wiener Wohnen" is an Austrian municipal housing corporation, administering 220.000 apartments. The dimensions of such building stocks indicate the relevance of user-friendly yet stringent methods for acquisition of valid information about types of construction, materials, and related issues of deterioration.
A combination of existing and new methods for documentation and condition assessment of building façades, primarily based on optical techniques and material analysis techniques, has been designed and tested in accordance to the needed information indicated.
This paper reports on the outcome of three case-studies comparing three methods for developing digital image-textured 3D-models of existing buildings.

Keywords:
long-term maintenance / built environment / built heritage / façades / documentation / optical techniques


"Official" electronic version of the publication (accessed through its Digital Object Identifier - DOI)
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15583050903272019

Electronic version of the publication:
http://publik.tuwien.ac.at/files/PubDat_183616.pdf


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