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New ISO Standard for Safe, Long-lasting Building, Engineering and Industrial StructuresISO has published a new standard to help engineers, builders and regulators to design structures that are safe and resistant to failure due to environmental and mechanical stresses, and to material degradation.
Buildings, civil engineering works, industrial structures, etc. and their components should be conceived, constructed, inspected, maintained and repaired in such a way that, under foreseeable environmental conditions, they maintain their required performance during their design lives with sufficient reliability for the safety and comfort of users and the intended use of the structure.
ISO 13823:2008 - General principles on the design of structures for durability specifies general principles and recommends procedures for the verification of the durability of structures subject to known or foreseeable environmental actions, including mechanical actions, causing material degradation leading to failure of performance.
It will help to ensure reliability of performance throughout the service life of the structure.
This International Standard does not directly address sustainability for structures.
Most considerations of sustainability, such as the choice of material as it affects waste and energy consumption, are outside its scope.
But indirectly, durable structures improve the sustainability of infrastructure.
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