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Models for estimating costs of public buildings maintaining – review and assessment [PDF]
Archives of Civil Engineering, 2022 Planning maintenance costs is not an easy task. The amount of costs depends on many factors, such as value, age, condition of the property, availability of necessary resources and adopted maintenance strategy.
Edyta Plebankiewicz +3 more
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Applied Sciences, 2021 Information technology (IT) systems are known to promote improvements in quality and productivity of the work environments of complex and adaptive socio-technical systems that span hardware, community and software aspects.
Ivenio T. de Souza +5 more
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Proactive Buildings: A Prescriptive Maintenance Approach
, 2022 Prescriptive maintenance has recently attracted a lot of scientific attention. It integrates the advantages of descriptive and predictive analytics to automate the process of detecting non-nominal device functionality. Implementing such proactive measures in-home or industrial settings may improve equipment dependability and minimize operational ...
Paraskevas Koukaras +9 more
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Acta Structilia, 2022 As an influential and significant factor in improving the service of building components and elements, maintenance plays an essential role in maintaining reliability, availability, and quality, as well as increasing efficiency and security.
Mohammad Kheradranjbar +2 more
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Assessment of public building defects and maintenance practices: Cases in Mettu town, Ethiopia
Heliyon, 2023 Building flaws are one of the main aspects of building problems that need to be carefully considered. Besides the high demand for construction projects in Ethiopia, the problems of defective buildings and maintenance issues were so prevalent.
Taye Tariku Awasho, Shambel Kifle Alemu
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Methods of dealing with the problems of applying policies to preserve valuable heritage buildings [PDF]
Maǧallaẗ Al-Turāṯ wa Al-Taṣmīm, 2022 Egypt has many heritage buildings (archaeological or valuable) that represent different eras of civilizations over time. In order to preserve this architectural and urban heritage, preservation operations face many problems as a result of close ...
rasha mahran, Osama Alnahas
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Condition Assessment Framework for Facility Management Based on Fuzzy Sets Theory
Buildings, 2021 Condition information is essential to develop effective facility management (FM) strategies. Visual inspections and walk-through surveys are common practices of condition assessment (CA), generally resulting in qualitative and subjective outcomes such as
Deniz Besiktepe +2 more
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Falcon: A False Ceiling Inspection Robot
Sensors, 2021 Frequent inspections are essential for false ceilings to maintain the service infrastructures, such as mechanical, electrical, and plumbing, and the structure of false ceilings.
M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala +5 more
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Intelligent building maintenance — A novel discipline [PDF]
Journal of Building Appraisal, 2008 Intelligent building has been developing for more than 25 years, and has undergone four major generations. It has now been widely and deeply developed in new buildings. There is, however, no commensurate development of intelligence in building maintenance.
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Maintenance as a Guarantee for Roofing Performance in Buildings with Heritage Value
Buildings, 2016 This paper is the result of the research conducted at the University of Porto and follows up on the Ph.D. thesis developed by the second author, which deals with the issue of the non-inclusion of maintenance at the time of architectural design, and of ...
Patrícia Fernandes Rocha +1 more
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