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Framework for ensuring effectiveness of maintenance in building services

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dc.contributor.author Jayasinghe, DPSD
dc.contributor.author Disaratna, PAPVDS
dc.contributor.author Weerasinghe, RPNP
dc.contributor.editor Sandanayake, YG
dc.contributor.editor Fernando, NG
dc.contributor.editor Karunasena, GI
dc.date.accessioned 2022-03-04T05:44:46Z
dc.date.available 2022-03-04T05:44:46Z
dc.date.issued 2015-06
dc.identifier.citation Jayasinghe, D.P.S.D., Disaratna, P.A.P.V.D.S., & Weerasinghe, R.P.N.P. (2015). Framework for ensuring effectiveness of maintenance in building services. In Y.G. Sandanayake, N.G. Fernando & G.I. Karunasena (Eds.), Sustainable development in built environment: green growth & innovative directions (pp. 270-281). Ceylon Institute of Builders. https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2015-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/17148
dc.description.abstract Maintenance management of building services has become one of the critical issues among building sector professionals recently. The interruptions or damages to the building services extensively affect the core operation of the business. Therefore, appropriate maintenance management arrangements are required to sustain a proper building services system. Building practitioners tackle various issues and seek a variety of alternative solutions to deliver an effective maintenance strategy for the building services. However, the lack of consideration on the overall effectiveness of maintenance services has faced frequent problems such as human errors, health and safety issues, resource scarcities, and time delays. In order to address those problems, this research has been carried to develop a framework that ensures the effectiveness of maintenance activities of the building services in Sri Lanka. An extensive literature review was mainly carried to discover the impact of effective maintenance activities towards the building services. Afterwards, a preliminary experts’ survey was conducted to obtain the factors affecting to effectiveness of maintenance activities. Subsequently, a questionnaire survey was conducted among maintenance personals to rank identified factors according to their impact. Further, semi-structured interviews have been carried out mainly to identify the limitations of maintenance work. The framework highlights the factors that affect the effectiveness of maintenance activities of building services. Further, the framework facilitates to address the limitations of maintenance activities of building services. The framework can be used as clear evidence to convince both top management and owners of organisations to ensure the effectiveness of maintenance activities as well. en_US
dc.description.sponsorship International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction (CIB) en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Ceylon Institute of Builders en_US
dc.relation.uri https://ciobwcs.com/downloads/WCS2015-Proceedings.pdf en_US
dc.subject Building services en_US
dc.subject Commercial buildings en_US
dc.subject Effectiveness en_US
dc.subject Maintenance activities en_US
dc.subject Maintenance staff en_US
dc.title Framework for ensuring effectiveness of maintenance in building services en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Building Economics en_US
dc.identifier.year 2015 en_US
dc.identifier.conference 4th World Construction Symposium 2015 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 270-281 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Sustainable development in built environment: green growth & innovative directions en_US
dc.identifier.email nilminiweerasinghe@ymail.com en_US


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