Viability of Rehabilitated Apartment Buildings: A Feasibility Study Method forBuilding Rehabilitation Projects Developed by Action Research, Acta Polytechnica Scandinavica. Civil Engineering and Building Construction Series No. 111

摘要

The rehabilitation of rental apartment buildings has often been expensive inFinland. The aim of the research was to develop a feasibility-study method for building rehabilitation projects. The feasibility-study method was developed and tested by applying it to a real-life situation in cooperation with property-owner organizations. The research material consisted of 21 apartment-building properties. The prepared feasibility studies of the research subjects and rehabilitations realized after feasibility studies were analyzed. A few years after the execution of the rehabilitation of the research subjects, the impact of the executed rehabilitation on the subjects' viability were evaluated. The research used the Rehab-Degree Indicator to measure rehabilitation costs. Prior to its use in the field experiment, the indicator was calibrated by 34 rehab projects and tested by other 38 projects.