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

Hauashdh, Ali; Jailani, Junaidah; Abdul Rahman, Ismail; … - In: Journal of Facilities Management 20 (2021) 2, pp. 145-171

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 user’s safety and health, prevent the buildings from performing … their functions well and repairing building defects generates waste. Therefore, this study aims to specify the factors that …

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Maintenance programmes for flat roofs in existing buildings

Morgado, João; Flores-Colen, Inês; de Brito, Jorge; … - In: Property Management 35 (2017) 3, pp. 339-362

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to propose a maintenance programme for flat roofs in existing buildings, based on the inspection of 26 buildings in-service conditions, located in the Lisbon region, in Portugal. A proactive maintenance of flat roofs in existing buildings allows reducing...

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Pilot Survey On The Conservation Of Historical Buildings In Malaysia

Kamal, Kamarul_Syahril; AbWahab, Lilawati; Ahmad, A_Ghafar - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

historical buildings in Malaysia with the main focus on the conditions of building defects and conservation approach to these … in Malaysia. The broad objective of this pilot survey is to examine the level of building defects and the location of … building defects that normally occur at various types of historical buildings in Malaysia. At the same time, it will also look …

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Risk factors affecting building maintenance under tropical conditions

De Silva, Nayanthara; Ranasinghe, Malik; De Silva, C.R. - In: Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction 17 (2012) 3, pp. 235-252

Purpose – The factors contributing to maintenance cost include the life‐long environmental factors that the building is exposed to during its useful life as well as parameters relating to the design, construction and maintenance processes. The performance of risk associated with these...

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Defects in offsite construction: timber module prefabrication

Johnsson, Helena; Meiling, John Henrik - In: Construction Management and Economics 27 (2009) 7, pp. 667-681

The construction industry is based on craftsmanship. Quality control and assurance procedures applied in manufacturing cannot usually be readily applied in construction, where there are higher degrees of uniqueness in each project. One category of companies, industrialized housebuilders, is...

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