National foreword

This British Standard is the UK implementation of ISO 15686‑2:2012. It supersedes BS ISO 15686‑2:2001 which is withdrawn.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee CB/101, Service Life Planning.

A list of organizations represented on this committee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This publication does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users are responsible for its correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard cannot confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard was published under the authority of the Standards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 August 2012.

Foreword

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ISO 15686‑2 was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 59, Buildings and civil engineering works, Subcommittee SC 14, Design life.

This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 15686‑2:2001), which has been technically revised.

ISO 15686 consists of the following parts, under the general title Buildings and constructed assets — Service life planning:

Part 1: General principles and framework
Part 2: Service life prediction procedures
Part 3: Performance audits and reviews
Part 5: Life-cycle costing
Part 6: Procedures for considering environmental impacts
Part 7: Performance evaluation for feedback of service life data from practice
Part 8: Reference service life and service-life estimation
Part 9: Guidance on assessment of service-life data [Technical Specifiation]
Part 10: When to assess functional performance

The following parts are under preparation:

Part 4: Service Life Planning using IFC based Building Information Modelling [Technical Report]
Part 11: Terminology

Introduction

The ISO 15686 series on buildings and constructed assets, including service life planning, is an essential contribution to the development of a policy for design life. A major impetus for the preparation of the ISO 15686 series is the current concern over the industry’s inability to predict costs of ownership and maintenance of buildings. A secondary objective of service life planning is to reduce the likelihood of obsolescence and/or to maximize the re-use value of the obsolete building components.

The purpose of this part of ISO 15686 is to describe the principles of service life prediction (SLP) of building components and their behaviour when incorporated into a building or construction works considering various service environments. The SLP methodology is developed to be generic, i.e. applicable to all types of building components, and is meant to serve as a guide to all kinds of prediction processes. The methodology may be used in the planning of SLP studies regarding new and innovative components, whose performance is little known, or may be the guiding document in the assessment of already performed investigations in order to appraise their value as knowledge bases for SLP and reveal where complementary studies are necessary.

This part of ISO 15686 is intended primarily for

manufacturers who wish to provide data on in-use performance of their products,
test houses, technical approval organizations, etc.,
those who develop or draft product standards, and
users who may not be directly involved in making service life predictions, but who use them as inputs to reference service lives, within audits or reviews of service life planning, as information in environmental product declarations (EPDs), as inputs to service life prediction of assets and facilities in life-cycle costing, etc.

NOTE For this part of ISO 15686 to be used for service life evaluation at the scale of complex products or at the scale of construction works, a guidance document could be necessary.

For an improved understanding of the context of this part of ISO 15686, it is useful to read the other parts, in particular ISO 15686‑1, which is the umbrella document of the ISO 15686 series.

Data obtained in accordance with the methodology described in this part of ISO 15686 can be used in any context where appropriate, and specifically to obtain reference or estimated service life data as described in ISO 15686‑8.

Predictions can be based on evidence from previous use, on comparisons with the known service life of similar components, on tests of degradation in specific conditions or on a combination of these. Ideally, a prediction will be given in terms of the service life as a function of the in-use condition. In any case, the dependence of the service life on the in-use condition will be quantified in a suitable way. The reliability of the predicted service life of a component (PSLC) will depend on the evidence it is based on.

The methods described in the ISO 15686 series are based on work carried out in many countries. In general terms, they are a development of the current standards on durability published by the Architectural Institute of Japan, the British Standards Institution (BSI), the Canadian Standards Association (CSA), and the Italian Organization for Standardization (UNI). Specifically, this part of ISO 15686 is an extension and modification of the RILEM recommendation 64, “Systematic Methodology for Service Life Prediction”, developed by RILEM1) TC 71-PSL and TC 100-TSL. It also results from the work carried out in the CIB2) W080.

1 Scope

This part of ISO 15686 describes procedures that facilitate service life predictions of building components, based on technical and functional performance. It provides a general framework, principles and requirements for conducting and reporting such studies.

It does not cover limitation of service life due to obsolescence or other non-measurable or unpredictable performance states.

2 Normative references

3 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms

3.1 Terms and definitions

3.2 Abbreviated terms

4 Methodology

4.1 Brief description of service life prediction (SLP)

4.2 Connection to ISO 15686‑1 and ISO 15686‑8

5 Methodological framework

5.1 Range of SLP and problem description

5.2 Preparation

5.3 Pre-testing

5.4 Ageing exposure programmes

5.5 Analysis and interpretation

5.6 A complementary approach: the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA)

6 Critical review

6.1 General description of critical review

6.2 Needs and requirements for critical review

6.3 Process of critical review

7 Reporting

Bibliography

BS ISO 15686-2:2012

Buildings and constructed assets. Service life planning - Service life prediction procedures

Current, Under Review

Published:

31 Aug 2012