Are Your Buildings Being Managed as Assets or Becoming Expensive Liabilities?Building deterioration rarely becomes critical overnight. Defects develop, building components age, systems lose efficiency, and minor maintenance requirements can gradually become costly repairs, operational disruptions, safety concerns, and long-term financial liabilities.
Principles and Practices of Building Maintenance provides a structured professional framework for understanding how buildings deteriorate and how maintenance can be planned and managed to protect safety, performance, functionality, and long-term asset value.
Rather than treating maintenance as a series of isolated repairs, this book examines the technical, managerial, operational, financial, and technological dimensions of maintaining building assets.
WHAT THIS BOOK PROVIDESThis practical guide covers:
- Building deterioration and common causes of defects
- Maintenance of structural and architectural elements
- Mechanical building systems, including HVAC, plumbing, and lifts
- Electrical systems and maintenance requirements
- Health and safety considerations in maintenance work
- Reactive, corrective, preventive, and predictive maintenance strategies
- Maintenance planning, contracts, dilapidations, and cost considerations
- Digital maintenance technologies, including CMMS, BIM, and IoT
- Practical examples and case-based maintenance lessons
The book connects an understanding of how buildings and their systems deteriorate with the professional decisions required to inspect, maintain, repair, manage, and improve them.
WHO THIS BOOK IS FORDesigned for facility and maintenance managers, property and asset managers, engineers, construction and building professionals, property owners, consultants, students, and other built environment practitioners.
Whether responsible for a single building or a wider property portfolio, the challenge is the same: to identify maintenance requirements before they develop into more serious failures and to make informed decisions that support the continued performance of the asset.
Principles and Practices of Building Maintenance provides a practical professional foundation for understanding building deterioration, applying appropriate maintenance strategies, managing building systems, and treating maintenance as an essential part of long-term asset stewardship rather than simply a response to failure.
