Green Maintenance for historic masonry buildings: an option appraisal approach
Purpose Sustainability is well understood to encapsulate economic, environmental and societal parameters. The efficiency of maintenance interventions for historic buildings is no exception and also conforms to these broad factors. Recently, environmental considerations for masonry repair have become increasingly important and this work supports this growing area. The purpose of this paper is to give insight on how an option appraisal approach of "Green Maintenance" modelling for historic masonry buildings repair practically determine and ultimately substantiate the decision making process using a calculation procedures of life cycle assessment, within delineated boundaries. Design/methodology/approach Calculation procedures of the model enables an assessment of embodied carbon that is expended from different stone masonry wall repair techniques and scenarios for historic masonry buildings during the maintenance phase. Findings It recognises the importance roles Green Maintenance model can play in re.