Transsylvania Nostra Journal

The operation of the building maintenance planning systems requires the development of a professional work method regarding building diagnostic data collection, the development of an algorithm, of building diagnostic manuals and of structural catalogues. As opposed to the accountancy-oriented real estate and building stock inventory, the building maintenance planning systems require the creation and constant monitoring of databases that are suitable for the technically founded planning of maintenance and retrofitting, which in their turn require the chronological collection and registration of the growing pile of technical information concerning the more and more limited spatial structures. The building diagnostic systems include the collection, determination, registration, analysis and evaluation of all the complex information related to “main structures” on the level of buildings, as well as those on the level of structures and rooms, which are detailed pieces of information characterizing the structures, quantities and states. The outlined structure leads to the development of multilaterally usable professional engineering databases.
Keywords: historic buildings, architecture, roof structures, building structure, diagnosis, Romania.