BRE Service Life Assessment Method
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What is Service Life Assessment?

Service life assessment is the consideration of service life at all stages of the construction process, from development of the client brief, through the design and construction phases, into operation of the asset itself.

Service life assessment is:

  • a structured, traceable method to mange the risks inherent in construction procurement.
  • a mechanism for information management which allows the involved parties to learn from best practice and poor performance.
  • a system to demonstrate value for money in construction procurement.
  • a method to assess the implication of variations during the project and mitigate the impact of such variations.

Service life assessments are a part of the new international standard, BS ISO 15686: Service Life Planning.

BS ISO 15686 Part 3: Performance audits and reviews, with which BRE-SLAM complies, sets out the principles of service life assessments. Parts 1, 2 and 3 are available from the British Standards Institution as the BS Service Life Planning Pack3.

Download a presentation concerning the development of BS ISO 15686: Parts 4 to 7 PDF icon(154 Kb).

A paper on service life assessment was recently presented at the 9TH Durability of Building Materials conference. Download a copy of this paper PDF icon(129 Kb)

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3 KIT 40: Complete service life planning pack, BSI (British Standards Institution), London, 2000.