Developing a next-level computational modeling framework to predict the long-term performance of old buildings

资源的可用性、气候变化和极端环境行动的频率增加迫使我们以成本和时间效率的方式保护我们的建筑存量。因此，对现有建筑实施预防性和前瞻性措施，有助于有效地利用资源，这将有利于经济和环境。最近和过去的事件表明，许多古老的建筑物和结构从加拿大的景观中被拆除。为此，拟议的国际合作探讨了砖石建筑在持续活载和恒载下的恶化过程，考虑到它们的损坏（原样）状况。准确估计老砖石建筑的预期寿命是实现可持续保护计划和防止意外的部分/全部危及生命的倒塌的关键。这项独特的合作工作将通过开发可以处理视觉数据和检测结构损伤的接口工具，在尖端计算建模方法和遥感技术之间架起一座桥梁。与英国合作伙伴合作，提高对现有建筑存量老化和损坏进展的理解，将为地方当局和政策制定者提供宝贵的利益。这将使他们能够优先修复最脆弱的结构，加拿大将有效地利用其资源，并能够规划未来几十年的预算。

The availability of resources, climate change, and increased frequency of extreme environmental actions force us to conserve our building stock in a cost- and time-efficient manner. Thus, it is significant to implement preventive and proactive measures for the existing buildings that help navigate resources efficiently, which will benefit the economy as well as the environment. Recent and past events indicate that many old buildings and structures were demolished from the Canadian landscape. To this end, the proposed international collaboration explores the deterioration process of masonry buildings under sustained live and dead loads considering their damaged (as-is) condition. The accurate estimation of the life expectancy of the aged masonry building stock is key to achieving sustainable conservation plans and preventing unexpected partial/full life-threatening collapses. This unique collaborative work will form a bridge between a cutting-edge computational modeling approach and remote sensing techniques by developing an interface tool that can process visual data and detect structural damages. An improved understanding of the aging and damage progression of the existing building stock in collaboration with the UK partner will offer invaluable benefits to the local authorities and policymakers. This will allow them to prioritize the most vulnerable structures to be repaired, and Canada will efficiently use its resources and be able to plan the budget for the next decades.