Building maintenance management / Barrie Chanter and Peter Swallow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chanter, Barrie.

Contributor:

Swallow, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Buildings--Maintenance and repair--Management.

Buildings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (333 p.)

Edition:

2nd ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Malden, MA : Blackwell, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.With the increasing cost of new-build, effective maintenance of existing building stock is becoming ever more important and building maintenance work now represents nearly half of total construction output in the UK.Building Maintenance Management provides a comprehensive profile of the many aspects of property maintenance. This second edition has been updated thro

Contents:

BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT; Contents; Preface to the Second Edition; Preface to the First Edition; About the Authors; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: The Changing Context within which Building Maintenance Operates; Chapter 2: The Maintenance Dimension; Chapter 3: Maintenance Organisations; Chapter 4: The Design/Maintenance Relationship; Chapter 5: The Nature of Maintenance Work; Chapter 6: Information Management; Chapter 7: Maintenance Planning; Chapter 8: Maintenance Contracts; Chapter 9: The Execution of Building Maintenance; Appendix 1: Statistics

Appendix 2: Methods of Financial AppraisalIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

9786611318970

9781281318978

1281318973

9780470692011

0470692014

9780470691298

0470691298

OCLC:

608622577