Concrete structure ownership and management: Part 2

With correct design, specification and construction, concrete structures provide high-performance durable assets with long service lives. Owners can maximise the benefits to be gained from concrete structures, while minimising through-life cost and sustainability impacts, by taking a through-life perspective on the design, specification and management of their structures; rather than simply focusing on first cost. This second part of a two-part paper provides an overview of the advice given in the fib guide to good practice entitled Concrete Structure Management—Guide to Ownership and Good Practice (fib Bulletin 44).