This new edition of an informative and accessible book guides building surveyors and facilities managers through the key aspects of property maintenance and continues to be of value to both students and practitioners.

Building Maintenance Management provides a comprehensive profile of the many aspects of property maintenance. This second edition has been updated throughout, with sections on outsourcing; maintenance planning; benchmarking and KPIs; and current trends in procurement routes (including partnering and the growth of PFI) integrated into the text.

There is also a new chapter on the changing context within which maintenance is carried out, largely concerned with its relationship to facilities management. More coverage is given of maintenance organisations and there are major updates to relevant aspects of health and safety and to contract forms.

Contents

1. The changing context within which Building Maintenance operates
2. The Maintenance Dimension
3. Maintenance Organisations
4. The Design/Maintenance Relationship
5. The Nature of Maintenance Work
6. Information Management
7. Maintenance Planning
8. Maintenance Contracts
9. The Execution of Building Maintenance

Appendices

• Statistics
• Methods of Financial Appraisal

Index

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