Service Life of Multi-Unit Residential Building Elements and Equipment
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This report summarizes the results of a Canada-wide study to determine the service life of building elements and equipment in multi-unit residential buildings, and possible implications for replacement/reserve funds. Building professionals were surveyed to obtain real life, non-theoretical estimates of service life for over 230 components in apartment buildings over five storeys high. A model building was then selected and used to estimate the cash flow and reserve fund implications for the average high and low-end length of service life. (© 2000 CMHC)
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