Considering facilities management (FM) at the early design stage could potentially reduce
the efforts for maintenance during the operational phase of facilities. Few efforts in …

Building Information Modeling (BIM) has been implemented by architecture, engineering
and construction (AEC) firms since it effectively manages and integrates information …

To improve building maintainability by preventing defects, a scientific maintainability scoring
system necessitates a centralized database of defects and their systematic analysis or …

Condition information is essential to develop effective facility management (FM) strategies.
Visual inspections and walk-through surveys are common practices of condition assessment …

A building maintainability (BM) approach is the only plausible solution to balance a
decreasing budget and increasing standards of modern commercial buildings. There is no …

Successful deployment of the facilities management (FM) function for any major
development will depend upon the ability to identify, communicate, and manage …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a structured methodology to permit the
optimal selection of the best‐suited computerized maintenance management system …

Building maintenance tasks to solve unpredictable faults typically start with written
communications from end-users (eg, emails). Technicians manually translate end-users' …

Em Portugal, a manutenção de edifícios sempre foi uma actividade descurada no processo
construtivo, resultado de iniciativas reactivas e tardias ou simplesmente inexistente …

Purpose–Besides designing a comprehensive building maintainability scoring system, this
paper aims to develop a standard and reliable method for acquisition of tacit knowledge in …