Impacts of design deficiencies on maintenance cost of high-rise residential buildings and mitigation measures

R Islam, TH Nazifa, SF Mohammed, MA Zishan… - Journal of Building …, 2021 - Elsevier
The building design has drawn great attention in recent years because of its large impact on
many aspects of the functionality and maintenance activities in high-rise residential …

Overview of design for maintainability in building and construction research

L Zhu, M Shan, BG Hwang - Journal of Performance of Constructed …, 2018 - ascelibrary.org
The body of knowledge on design for maintainability (DfM) is increasing. However, there is
currently no systematic analysis of the diversified DfM-related issues and research. Through …

Augmented reality for identifying maintainability concerns during design

IA Khalek, JM Chalhoub, SK Ayer - Advances in Civil …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
In a building context, decisions made early in the design phase can have a major impact on
maintainability of the resulting facility. Effectively leveraging the knowledge of facility …

Factors affecting the number of building defects and the approaches to reduce their negative impacts in Malaysian public universities' buildings

A Hauashdh, J Jailani, I Abdul Rahman… - Journal of Facilities …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The largest share of a building maintenance budget goes towards preventing or
repairing building defects. Also, building defects shorten a building's lifetime, impact the …

Toward improved LCC-informed decisions in building management

F Salvado, NM Almeida… - Built Environment Project …, 2018 - emerald.com
Purpose Stakeholders of the Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) sector
require information on the buildings economic performance throughout its life cycle. This …

Facility defect and cost reduction by incorporating maintainability knowledge transfer using maintenance management system data

DJ Weeks, F Leite - Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities, 2021 - ascelibrary.org
Facility maintenance is critical to the proper function and utilization of facilities and fit and
function are highly important to dormitories. This study analyzed 39,093 work orders from a …

The causal factors of elevator maintenance: a perspective from Saudi Arabia healthcare facility management

H Alassafi, K Al-Gahtani, A Almohsen, G Alfalah - Buildings, 2022 - mdpi.com
Maintenance is crucial for healthcare facilities in terms of both the continuity of operations
and annual costs. Many maintenance issues are associated with design decisions that pave …

Development of a design-for-maintainability assessment of building systems in the tropics

AS Asmone, MYL Chew - Building and Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
The lack of Design for Maintainability (DfM) leads to avoidable building component defects
and unproductive building operations. This study reports on the development of a building …

Early Fast Cost Estimates of Sewerage Projects Construction Costs Based on Ensembles of Neural Networks

M Juszczyk, T Hanák, M Výskala, H Pacyno, M Siejda - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Featured Application The potential applications of the research results, particularly the
models utilizing ensembles of neural networks, offer the feasibility of early cost estimates for …

Preventive maintenance model for national school buildings in indonesia using a constraint programming approach

SS Liu, M Faizal Ardhiansyah Arifin - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
The Indonesian government needs to maintain around 231,000 school buildings in active
use. Such a portfolio of buildings given the diversity of locations, limited maintenance …