Álvaro Vale e Azevedo

National Laboratory for Civil Engineering | LNEC · Department of Buildings

A. Vale e Azevedo, P. Couto, M.J. Falcao Silva, F. Salvado, R. Lima Alvaro Vale e Azevedo, Filipa Salvado, M. Joao Falcao Silva, Paula Couto

As funções financeiras e as funções relacionadas com o desempenho técnico e funcional (não financeiras) estão incorporadas nas atividades de gestão do ciclo de vida de qualquer dos ativos construídos. Essas funções fornecem informação relevante para o estabelecimento de estratégias de operação e de manutenção, bem como para o processo de tomada de...

It is increasingly important for the architecture, engineering and construction (AEC) practitioners to justify not only the initial capital investments needed at an early stage of a building project but also all other subsequent costs throughout the building life cycle. These involve an understanding of the running costs of buildings in the use sta...

It is increasingly important justify not only the initial capital investments needed at an early stage of a building project, but also all other subsequent costs throughout the building life-cycle. These involve an understanding of the running costs in the use stage and also appropriate long-term capital investment planning of future rehabilitation...

Purpose Both financial and non-financial functions are imbedded in the life-cycle management activities of building assets. These functions provide relevant information for the establishment of operational and maintenance strategies and for decision-making processes related with the timing of major repairs, replacements and rehabilitations. The pur...

Scientific community and practitioners of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector have been developing life-cycle cost (LCC) concept for the past decades. However, information on a building’s economic performance throughout its life-cycle is seldom readily available or accurate. This hinders the fulfilment of recommendations of...

Purpose Stakeholders of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector require information on the buildings economic performance throughout its life cycle. This information is neither readily available nor always accurate because building management (BM) professionals still face difficulties to fully incorporate the life cycle cost (LC...

The management of information systems contributes to the economic development of the construction sector by organizing and structuring technical and economic information. It is proposed how BIM (Building Information Modelling) and a Portuguese information system-ProNIC (abbreviation for Protocol for the Standardization of Construction Technical Inf...

This paper describes some numerical techniques used on analytical three dimensional model that performs the structural analysis of buildings due to static actions in an integrated form with the dynamic analysis. The assembly of the floors stiffness matrix, as well as the substructuring techniques used for the solution of the system of equations, sa...