eprintid: 10190861
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datestamp: 2024-04-18 14:30:25
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creators_name: Fernández, R
creators_name: Calvo, A
creators_name: Correal, JF
creators_name: D'Ayala, D
creators_name: Medaglia, AL
title: Large-scale school building infrastructure improvement: The case of the city of Cali, Colombia
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B04
divisions: C05
divisions: F44
keywords: Quality education, 
School building infrastructure, 
Functionality, 
Safety, 
Disaster risk reduction, 
Optimization
note: © 2024 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
abstract: Quality education is influenced by various factors, including infrastructure, curricula, and educators. Among these factors, school infrastructure significantly impacts the learning process. However, managing and improving existing school infrastructure in low- and middle-income countries presents complex challenges due to limited resources, inadequate regulations, and poor maintenance practices. To effectively prioritize limited funds and balance short-term needs with long-term sustainability, decision-making processes must consider simultaneously functionality and safety aspects. This paper introduces an extended decision-making framework for enhancing school buildings, by determining optimal investment levels and prioritizing interventions in the building portfolio. The framework comprises multiple analytic models that are interconnected. The methodology starts with the identification of building typologies using a clustering algorithm; then, through a multi-criteria utility function with parametrized decision-maker profiles, it considers the trade-offs between safety and functionality; last, an optimization model prioritizes the buildings’ interventions. The framework is adapted to a regional context in the city of Cali (Colombia). The outcome of this implementation provides analytics to decision-makers at an early stage in the formulation of school building improvement programs. This helps unveiling the extent of the project by defining the needs of improvement and the budget required to implement a large-scale intervention program.
date: 2024-06
date_type: published
publisher: Elsevier BV
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101881
oa_status: green
full_text_type: pub
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
verified: verified_manual
elements_id: 2268534
doi: 10.1016/j.seps.2024.101881
lyricists_name: Fernandez, Rafael
lyricists_name: D'Ayala, Dina
lyricists_id: RFERN10
lyricists_id: DDAYA16
actors_name: Fernandez, Rafael
actors_id: RFERN10
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Socio-Economic Planning Sciences
volume: 93
article_number: 101881
issn: 0038-0121
citation:        Fernández, R;    Calvo, A;    Correal, JF;    D'Ayala, D;    Medaglia, AL;      (2024)    Large-scale school building infrastructure improvement: The case of the city of Cali, Colombia.                   Socio-Economic Planning Sciences , 93     , Article 101881.  10.1016/j.seps.2024.101881 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seps.2024.101881>.       Green open access   
 
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