The reengineering of built-up areas: structure and composition

Abstract

Introduction. Engineering solutions of construction facilities are becoming obsolete due to the impact of scientific and technological progress, changes in consumer needs and production capabilities of the construction industry. A gap between consumer needs and characteristics of construction products is bridged by updating, modernizing, retrofitting and transforming design solutions. Materials and methods. The subject of the study is capital construction facilities that have various functional purposes: they structure built-up urban areas (space planning), whose urban planning solutions need reengineering in the course of operation. The article considers the list of capital construction entities that include industrial facilities (manufacturing, agricultural, and communication facilities), non-industrial facilities (public buildings, residential housing) and linear objects (overpasses, pipelines, power grids). Functional, planning, structural, organizational and technological features of capital construction facilities, features of vital processes, production and technological procedures, that are underway inside them, determine the characteristic differences in the composition and structure of construction reengineering. Structural and functional analysis is the research method of the study. Results. The composition of actions and methods used to reengineer residential and industrial buildings, areas occupied by the engineering and transport infrastructure is described. The article presents changes introduced by reengineering actions with regard for the features of facilities that structure urban development. The co-authors acknowledge that the structure and composition of construction reengineering are highly variable, and their variability is determined by the types of built-up areas and their transformation methods. This dependence impacts a combination of reengineering actions, including those that determine the nature of transformation and supplement the principal change. The research results allow to develop reengineering process organization charts and outline the resource provision process.