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Building and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course.
List of contents
Foreword by Dr Peter Farrell
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Significance and nature of building maintenance
Chapter 3: Maintenance and asset planning strategies, programmes, policies and systems
Chapter 4: Common maintenance issues and managing defects
Chapter 5: Maintenance and conservation of historic buildings
Chapter 6: Common internal maintenance issues, defects and remedial works
Chapter 7: Common external maintenance issues, defects and remedial works
Chapter 8: Surveying existing buildings
Chapter 9: An innovative project to assist Building Surveying students: designing a handbook as a practical teaching and learning guide for surveying buildings
Chapter 10: The relationship between maintenance management and environmental sustainability
Chapter 11: Case studies related to embedding environmental sustainability into estates practices
Chapter 13: Implications in practice for maintenance management in the built environment
Chapter 14: Summary of key points, reflections, overview and closing remarks
Appendix 1: Sample Maintenance Plan
Appendix 2: Sample RICS Home Survey Level 3
Appendix 3: Photographic Schedule of Condition
Appendix 4: Project Plan Proposal Form
Appendix 5: Relevant Standard by LLUK for professional Knowledge and Practice
Appendix 6: Session Pan linked with Building Surveying Handbook
Appendix 7: Striving for a Sustainable Salford
Appendix 8 Energy, Water & Carbon Management Plan
Appendix 9 Environmental and Sustainability Strategy document
Index
About the author
Dr Jason Challender MSc PhD Eng. D.Hon FRICS FAPM FAHE has acquired 35 years 'client side' experience in the UK construction industry and procured numerous successful major construction programmes during this time. He is Director of Estates and Facilities at the University of Salford, a member of its Senior Leadership Team and responsible for overseeing a large department of approximately 350 estates and construction-related staff. He is also a construction researcher who has published seven books and twelve academic journal and conference papers in recent years, all of which have been dedicated to his studies around construction and engineering management. He has attended many national and international construction and institutional conferences as a guest speaker over the years and is a visiting professor.
Robert Challender is employed at CS2 Charted Surveyors in Manchester, where he is serving an apprenticeship in building surveying. The building surveys featured in the book are those which he has undertaken himself. He is currently studying for a BSc degree in building surveying at the University of Salford.
Summary
Building and Facilities Maintenance Management: An Innovative Operational Approach is a new introductory textbook aimed at students who are studying building maintenance and asset management for the first time as part of their undergraduate or foundation course.
