Open Engineering (Nov 2018)

The selected roof covering technologies in the aspect of their life cycle costs

  • Apollo Magdalena,
  • Siemaszko Agata,
  • Miszewska-Urbańska Emilia

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/eng-2018-0053
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 478 – 483

Abstract

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In the article is presented an analysis of the life cycle costs calculation for selected roof coverings. The scope of research includes costs of construction, maintenance and demolition of the roof covering structure for two alternative technologies – the traditional and new generation. On the presented example of an industrial building with a roof area of 1000 m2, the above costs are taken to consideration for the roof covering made of two thermoplastic asphalt torching polymer membrane layers and a new generation PVC thermoplastic film with a reinforcing layer. The input data presented in the article comes from the investor (the owner of the future facility) and from property managers responsible for the maintenance of facilities in regard to the purpose, volume and applied method.

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