Building Maintainability—Review of State of the Art

TLDR

This review examines building maintainability and proposes integrating total quality performance audits and life‑cycle cost analysis to enhance building performance over its economic life, including a Singapore case study. The authors discuss total quality approaches via performance audits, life‑cycle cost methods, and various systems designed to improve quality delivery and maintainability, and illustrate how these can be combined in practice. The paper presents two approaches—total quality performance audits and life‑cycle cost analysis—that can be integrated with maintainability concepts to improve building performance throughout its economic life.

Abstract

This paper reviews the issue related to maintainability of building and discusses works of researchers worldwide. The paper offers two approaches that could be integrated with the concepts of maintainability to augment building performance throughout its economic life. The two approaches are: (1) total quality approach via performance audit and (2) life cycle cost (LCC) approach. Various systems constructed to enhance quality delivery and maintainability of buildings were also discussed. An attempt to integrate building performance and LCC in Singapore to improve the maintainability of buildings was presented.