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Maintenance Painting of Buildings
1966Abstract : A maintenance painting work unit has been set up to find the most economical treatment, per year of protection, for repairing thick layers of paint which are cracking and flaking.
James H. Mitchell, Joseph B. Crilly
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Building Maintenance Problems and Their Solution-III
1976This chapter is concerned with building defects that arise from site conditions and inadequate foundations, the various types of temporary works and the maintenance of external works, such as pavings and fences.
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Facilities, 1984
As we reported in October, a draft British Standard on the management of building maintenance was published recently for public comment. Although the draft may eventually undergo considerable revision before emerging as a British Standard, it is nevertheless of considerable interest to facilities managers as a first attempt to lay down guidelines for ...
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As we reported in October, a draft British Standard on the management of building maintenance was published recently for public comment. Although the draft may eventually undergo considerable revision before emerging as a British Standard, it is nevertheless of considerable interest to facilities managers as a first attempt to lay down guidelines for ...
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Application of Industrial Maintenance Methods on Building Maintenance
Modern Methods and Advances in Structural Engineering and Construction(ISEC-6), 2011Currently, the existing building stock is refurbished or replaced at a very low annual rate. Nevertheless due to its immense total value this slow replacement requires a considerable part of the GDP. It is important to ensure that this capital is invested in the best way with most profit for the society and future generations as well as for the ...
Markus Christen +2 more
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Maintenance of Academic Buildings
2014This chapter discusses maintenance issues in the university buildings in Malaysia. Building requires maintenance to perform optimally. While there commitments to raise the performance of the university building little emphasise is placed on maintenance. There is a need to tie maintenance of buildings the productivity of the academic sector.
Abdul Lateef Olanrewaju +1 more
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Design recovery and maintenance of build systems
2007 IEEE International Conference on Software Maintenance, 2007The build system forms an indispensable part of any software project. It needs to evolve in parallel with the source code in order to build, test and install the software. Unfortunately, little tool support exists to help maintainers gain insight into the build system, much less to refactor it.
Bram Adams +3 more
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An empirical study of build maintenance effort
Proceedings of the 33rd International Conference on Software Engineering, 2011The build system of a software project is responsible for transforming source code and other development artifacts into executable programs and deliverables. Similar to source code, build system specifications require maintenance to cope with newly implemented features, changes to imported Application Program Interfaces (APIs), and source code ...
Shane McIntosh +4 more
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Overview of Building Maintenance
1993Buildings are expected to exist for a long time, regardless of whether or not they have actually been designed and constructed properly to do so. The building industry is responsible for maintaining, improving and adapting the existing stock of buildings in addition to the production of new buildings.
Lee How Son, George C. S. Yuen
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Modelling Inspection Policies for Building Maintenance
Journal of the Operational Research Society, 1982A method of assessing the potential of an inspection maintenance policy as opposed to an existing breakdown maintenance policy for a building complex is developed. The method is based upon information likely to be available and specific subjective assessments which could be made available.
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