Abstract:
Maintenance of a building, which is of utmost importance, has become a burden to
organisations worldwide, due to the unplanned approach towards it. Recently, views on
building maintenance had undergone fundamental changes and are currently thought of
as a crucial function in any organisation. Regrettably, around one-third of the allocated
maintenance costs are wasted due to the ineffectiveness of maintenance planning. As a
remedy to this loss, many organisations are currently shifting towards the incorporation
of maintenance strategies such as corrective maintenance, preventive maintenance, and
predictive maintenance. However, the implementation of these strategies itself will not
solve the problem. Significant planning should be undergone in order to obtain the
maximum benefit of executing these strategies. Introducing a tool to support planning
and decision-making regarding maintenance strategy implementation will hence
simplify this process. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to review existing literature on
maintenance strategies and develop a fuzzy logic model to find the best combination of
such maintenance strategies for concrete structures. Hence this paper portrays a
conceptual model that can be adopted to benchmark maintenance strategies for concrete
structures, by adapting the existing models which are commonly developed for
maintenance of machinery and equipment.
