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Building Maintenance
Brian J.B. Wood
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Description for Building Maintenance
Paperback. Maintaining a building is expensive: it costs many times more to run a building than to build it, yet maintenance is often accorded a low priority. Building Maintenance covers the technical aspects of maintenance for undergraduate students on built environment courses, particularly building surveying and facilities management. Num Pages: 328 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: TNK. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 242 x 173 x 18. Weight in Grams: 566.
Maintaining a building is expensive: it costs many times more to run a building over its lifetime than to build it, yet maintenance is often not accorded the priority it warrants. A poorly maintained building will be a drain on resources and will impair building use, whereas a well maintained building will function smoothly and represent an appreciating asset to its owners.
Maintaining a building is expensive: it costs many times more to run a building over its lifetime than to build it, yet maintenance is often not accorded the priority it warrants. A poorly maintained building will be a drain on resources and will impair building use, whereas a well maintained building will function smoothly and represent an appreciating asset to its owners.
Building Maintenance is a core text on the technical aspects of maintenance for undergraduate degree students on built environment courses, particularly building surveying and facilities management. It addresses the ‘who, what, where, when, how and why’ of ... Read more
A professional approach is required to building maintenance. By encouraging maintenance managers to stand back and take a strategic view of building maintenance alongside their day-to-day tasks, this book will help practitioners and students to achieve that.
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781405179676
SKU
V9781405179676
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-50
About Brian J.B. Wood
Brian Wood is a senior lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He previously worked in the public and private sectors as an architect and surveyor. He was a contributor to Quality in Traditional House Building, published by the Building Research Establishment, and is author of Building Care (Wiley-Blackwell). www.wiley.com/go/construction
Reviews for Building Maintenance
"Brian Wood continues to push forward this long important but 'emerging' discipline and must take his share of the credit for the awareness now developing about the maintenance manager's role ... .I highly commend the work and intend to include it on the reading list for the Facilities Management degree students I feel privileged to assist in this vital career." ... Read more