Standards Development

Scope

This part of ISO 15686 provides guidance on use of service life predictions or reference service-life data and on the application of these data for the purposes of calculating estimated service life using the factor method. It does not give guidance on how to estimate the modification part or the values of factors A to G, using given reference in-use conditions and the object-specific in-use conditions. The reliability of the predicted or estimated service life will depend on the evidence it was based upon (see note 1 below).

This part of ISO 15686 establishes when to specify or verify functional performance requirements during the service life of buildings and constructed assets and when to check their capability to meet identified requirements.

This part is applicable to any scope of holdings, whether a set (or portfolio), a single building (large or small) or a facility which is part of a building (such as one group of spaces, one floor or several floors) or part of a network of constructed assets.

It is applicable to the range of roles of stakeholders, from the owners and managers to the occupants, tenants or other users.

This Part does not describe specific test methods. It does not cover limitation of service life due to obsolescence caused by changing performance requirements or other non-measurable or unpredictable performance states.

Note 1: Service Life 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. These predictions form the basis of Reference Service Lives, and therefore of estimates of service life also.