Redevelopment of Real Estate in Urban Industrial Zones

Technical Features Of The Industrial Facilities Redevelopment

Redevelopment of industrial facilities is a complex process that includes measures to ensure environmental safety, identify promising ways of economic development, create a comfortable urban environment and ensure the functional technical condition of buildings, structures and engineering systems. Special attention is paid to the technical inspection of existing industrial construction facilities that are in limited operation or have been withdrawn from it. Technical management of construction industrial facilities within the framework of redevelopment is the most costly process from an economic point of view. Therefore, the authors paid special attention to the issues of technical inspection of construction sites during the redevelopment of industrial zones. The existing methods of inspection of buildings and structures were analyzed and an integrated approach to the survey of industrial facilities during redevelopment was developed.

A complex of technical measures plays an important role in the transfer of various construction objects (buildings and structures) from one category of operational condition to another. A possible change in the main purpose of the building is likely to affect the adjustments of its structural, space-planning, architectural and engineering solutions (Figure 1).

The authors chose the industrial territory of the former machine-building enterprise located in the city of Kursk, the Russian Federation, as the object of field research within the framework of scientific work. Founded in 1955, the company produced components for agricultural machinery. The enterprise included shops for 40 production lines, large iron foundries and shops for anti-corrosion treatment of metal products. In 2008 the enterprise was closed.

Figure 1 and Figure 2 show the technical condition of the building structures of a part of the existing production workshops of the former enterprise. Figure 5 shows the technical condition of the ceiling of reinforced concrete ribbed slabs of one of the existing production workshops.

In addition to buildings and structures on the territory of an industrial enterprise, it is a complex of engineering systems and a transport infrastructure node. The external engineering networks lying in the ground of the former enterprise are subjected to physical impact, which is exerted by the passage of tram transport in the immediate vicinity of the sections of these networks. Figure 6 shows the corrosion of a metal water supply pipe caused by the effect of “stray currents” near the main tram tracks.

Figure 1.

The premises of one of the workshops in the industrial building

From a technical point of view, the attractiveness of industrial facilities for use in other spheres of human activity is due to several factors:

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  Significant areas of premises;

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  The presence of spatial structures that provide fencing of most of the building's construction volume without additional load-bearing elements that limit this volume;

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  Bearing capacity of structures designed for their operating conditions close to the limit;

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  The possibility to organize various functional zones throughout the entire volume of an industrial building.

The use of a former industrial building can be different: from the business office area creation to the shopping and entertainment areas organization. Accordingly, the main technical goal of industrial reconstruction is to ensure safe and comfortable operation of new functional zones in the constructive “shell” of the former industrial facility.

From a constructive point of view, reorganization of industrial buildings and structures is one of the most difficult tasks. Therefore, when solving this issue, several groups of difficulties arise simultaneously: