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Improved delivery of social benefits through the maintenance planning of public assets

Publicated to:Structure And Infrastructure Engineering. 20 (5): 699-714 - 2024-05-03 20(5), DOI: 10.1080/15732479.2022.2121844

Authors: Salas, Jorge; Yepes, Victor

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Univ Politecn Valencia, Dept Construct Engn & Civil Engn Projects - Author
Univ Politecn Valencia, ICITECH - Author

Abstract

Though some methods have been developed to rank building portfolios based on energy and indoor environmental quality issues, the degree of physical degradation, and the economic cost of the required actions (Caccavelli & Gugerli, Energy and Buildings, 34(2), 113-119, 2002; Flourentzou, Brandt, & Wetzel, Energy and Buildings, 31(2), 167-170, 2000; Jaggs & Palmer, Energy and Buildings, 31(2), 97-101, 2000; Nielsen, Jensen, Larsen, & Nissen, Building and Environment, 103, 165-181, 2016; Pannier et al., Energy and Buildings, 250, 111290, 2021), methods including the type of social infrastructure decision criteria are still lacking. The prioritisation of public facilities' maintenance is a necessary but complex task due to the need of considering both physical and socio-economic criteria. This study addresses this problem by quantifying the improvement in the delivery of social benefits that the corrective maintenance of an urban area's public facilities could yield. Based on this, a decision framework is proposed to design and schedule corrective maintenance plans at a municipal scale. The methodology integrates multi-criteria assessment with an analytical method for evaluating the contribution of an area's public facilities to its sustainable urban development based on their type of social infrastructure and their maintenance condition. The decision framework is implemented as a software to facilitate its application to a case study, consisting in building urban regeneration strategies aligned with governmental guidelines. The results revealed that decision-making is more efficient when considering the facilities' type of social infrastructure. In addition, a cost-efficient prioritisation of corrective measures yields better results than neglecting the economy.

Keywords
Application programsBuildingsCorrective maintenanceCostsDecision makingDecision-makingEconomic and social effectsEnergyEuropean diagnosisFacilities managementFacility managementFinancial planningInvestmentMaintenance strategiesManagementOffice buildingsPlanningPortfolioPortfolio prioritisationPortfolio prioritizationPrioritizationRenovationRetrofitSocial infrastructureSocial infrastructuresSustainabilitySustainable developmentSustainable urban developmentToolUrban growthUrban strategic planning

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal Structure And Infrastructure Engineering due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Scopus (SJR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2024 there are still no calculated indicators, but in 2023, it was in position , thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2025-05-19:

  • WoS: 1
  • Scopus: 1
  • OpenCitations: 1
Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-05-19:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 40.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 40 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 3.7.
  • The number of mentions on the social network X (formerly Twitter): 5 (Altmetric).
Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (Salas Sánchez, José Miguel) and Last Author (Yepes Piqueras, Víctor).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been Yepes Piqueras, Víctor.