BUILDING CARE

• Main Author: Wood, Brian (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Blackwell Science 2003
• Subjects: Buildings > Repair and reconstruction; Architecture > Conservation and restoration; Buildings > Maintenance
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Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design. A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM -- p...

Table of Contents:

• Preface; 1 Background and Introduction; 2 Planned Preventive Maintenance Prevails; 3 Just in Time: Gurus from East and West; 4 Procurement of Building Maintenance Services; 5 Re-engineering the Process; 6 Enter Customer Care, Contact and Call Centres; 7 Intelligent Building Care; 8 Sustainable Building Care; 9 Building Futures: Left or Right?; 10 Cradle to Grave: Whole-Life Assessment and Implications for Design; Index.