Abstract—There are a huge amount of old residential buildings in Shanghai which involve a large number of residents. With the aging of the buildings, structural or architectural problems are exposed. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the old residential buildings. This paper collects the data of 34 old residential clusters in three districts of Pudong New Area of Shanghai by means of questionnaire and field survey. It analyzes the causes of the differences in architectural problems of old houses in different regions, different ages and different types of structures. This paper also probes into the causes of structural problems of old residential buildings. And it accumulates important basic data for improving the comprehensive renovation level of old residential buildings and perfecting related laws and regulations in Shanghai.
Index Terms—Shanghai, old residences, maintenance, investigation.
Fan Liu is with the civil engineering department of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CO 210016, China
Jianwu Pan is with the civil engineering department of Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, CO 210016, China (Jianwu Pan is the corresponding author of this paper; e-mail: panjianwu@nuaa.edu.cn)
Liang Xu is with the Planning and Design Institute of Pudong New Area, CO 200120, China
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Cite: Fan Liu, Jianwu Pan, and Liang Xu, "The Investigation and Discussion of Maintenance Situation of old Residences in Shanghai," International Journal of Engineering and Technology vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 305-309, 2019.