Reliability Approaches Affecting the Sustainability of Concrete Structures

The most important reliability approaches affecting sustainability in construction consist of the target levels, verification methods, and or intervention procedures. optimum levels can be specified based on probabilistic optimisation considering aspects including building costs, expected economic, social, environmental consequences construction, possible failures. It appears that derived are strongly dependent may lower for assessment existing structures than design new structures. efficient methods advanced approaches, risk actual properties structure related failure consequences. has been shown significantly affected by methods. case study demonstrates commonly save 10–20% consumption structural materials natural resources.