Suggested Guidelines for Integrating Maintenance Considerations into the Life Cycle of the Building | ||||
| ERJ. Engineering Research Journal | ||||
| Article 8, Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2015, Page 145-156 PDF (784.74 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/erjm.2015.66803 | ||||
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| Author | ||||
| Laila Khodeir | ||||
| Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, Ain Shams University | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Maintenance of buildings is a crucial process that has a great impact on both buildings' performance and the efficiency of their embedded systems. However, the building maintenance industry in Egypt has long been an area of neglect, as most of buildings stakeholders restrict its role to the operation phase of the building. This attitude disregards the precautionary maintenance processes that could be achieved through the preliminary phases of the buildings. The main concern of this paper is suggesting specific guidelines that enable the integration of maintenance considerations into the whole life cycle of the buildings. The ultimate purpose is to achieve better performing buildings regarding maintenance aspects. The study sheds light on the major barriers of applying efficient maintenance, through the analysis of results extracted from focused interviews that targeted a number of general and maintenance managers in a number of selected buildings. Emphasis is made on the role and impact of maintenance considerations in guiding the decisionmaking process, as well as the lack of integrating maintenance into the whole building design process. This paper ends up with suggesting a framework that demonstrates the impact of integrating considerations of maintenance throughout the whole life cycle of the building. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Maintenance Considerations, Life Cycle , Building Performance Evaluation; Egypt | ||||
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