Description
Book SynopsisBuilding and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course. The book plugs a gap in the current curriculum and literature which must now seek to educate emerging professionals about the significance of the operational phase of a built assetâs lifecycle, if the challenges of the day are to be met head on.
Each chapter is supported by seminar questions and formative assessment tasks to allow the learner to assess their own progress through the text and covers:
- The nature and importance of building maintenance for the successful strategic operation of an estate
- contracting and procurement of maintenance works
- risk assessment in maintenance management
- surveying for common maintenance issues and defects
- the relationship between
