Inspection of public buildings based on risk assessment

Abstract

Safety of public buildings has become an important issue for authorities after collapse of shopping centre in Riga, at 21.11.2013, where 54 people were killed. Safety of building is the practice of designing, constructing, operating, maintaining and removing buildings in ways that no one has deteriorated health, suffered injuries or died due to the use of the building. There are a lot of rating systems for sustainable building [1] in the worldwide, but there no such effective systems for rating of buildings according to their safety. This paper proposed a risk-based assessment system of public buildings with target to classify these in common way. The specific challenges of using such assessment for control purposes during of operation public buildings are highlighted in the work. There are also the first results of practical implementation of this method in Latvia. Based on the risk assessment there are also a new interactive approach for reporting of results for users of public buildings and stakeholders. The outcome of this research is accordingly a performance assessment tool that analyze the effect of risk factors to the safety of public buildings.