Damaged Swedish Buildings

Abstract

Damages with a negative influence on the indoor environment often become linked to high costs. Detailed facts about buildings with damages need to be collected and analyzed in order to be able to reduce the number of damages. This paper presents basic facts, such as design, property ownership and year of construction in buildings where 1105 damages were found. In general, the study gives qualitative indications and cross-comparing to other parameters considering damages and causes of damages needs to be done to obtain better results. Buildings with indoor air ventilated or heated crawlspaces have less damages compare to non- or outdoor ventilated crawl spaces. Damages are more common in buildings with poor exterior insulation in the foundation or a no-drainage and poorly ventilated cladding. In the buildings in the study, schools and local authority owned buildings have a high frequency of damages. A higher number of damages were also found in condominium association owned multi-family houses compared to public tenancy owned multi-family houses.

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