ISO 15686-3:2002旨在确保有效实施使用寿命计划。它描述了适用于预简报、简报、设计、施工的方法和程序，以及在需要的情况下，建筑物和已建资产的生命护理管理和处置，以提供合理的保证，确保在一段时间内实现满意性能所需的措施得到实施。 ISO 15686-3:2002中未阐述使用寿命规划的成本影响和更广泛的可持续性问题（例如，内含能源、土地使用）。

ISO 15686-3:2002 is concerned with ensuring the effective implementation of service life planning. It describes the approach and procedures to be applied to pre-briefing, briefing, design, construction and, where required, the life care management and disposal of buildings and constructed assets to provide a reasonable assurance that measures necessary to achieve a satisfactory performance over time will be implemented. The cost implications of service life planning and the broader issues of sustainability (e.g. embodied energy, land use) are not developed in ISO 15686-3:2002.