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Najib Ibrahim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Building Maintenance Achievement in High Rise Commercial Building: A Study in Klang Valley, Malaysia
2012Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:The value of Buildings depends on the achievement of the Maintenance invested in them. Building Maintenance management engages getting maximum benefit from the investment made on the Maintenance activities. Building Maintenance in high rise commercial Buildings in Malaysia is on the increase regardless of size, type, location, and ownership. This paper aims to develop a Maintenance achievement index (MAI) to benchmark the performance of Building Maintenance from a number of key performance indicators (KPIs). Eleven high rise office Buildings were investigated through randomly selection in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The research collected 110 respondents from in-house Building Maintenance personnel and outsourced consultant as well as contractors with managing and operating Building Maintenance activities experience of high rise commercial Buildings through unstructured interviews. In addition, a Maintenance achievement equation was formulated from the primary components analysis to generate a multiple score so as to show the level of achievement of Building Maintenance management. The findings of study had shown that Building Maintenance practitioners believe quality, safety, time, cost, functionality, and environmental friendliness can be considered as KPIs for Building Maintenance activities. A single index can also be computed from the Maintenance achievement equation to apply different weightings to the respective KPI with different significance such that the performance of Building Maintenance managements can be compared. The idea of achievement remains unclear among Building Maintenance practitioners, which makes it complicated to measure whether the performance of a Building Maintenance management is accomplishment or failure. This research establishes the need to develop a MAI which can be a tool in order to measure and value on the whole performance of the Building Maintenance activities and compute the success model in a scientific approach in order to ensure the consistency of quality, safety, time, cost, functionality, and environmental friendliness to Building stakeholders all the time.
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Building Maintenance POLICY ISSUES IN HIGH RISE COMMERCIAL BuildingS
2011Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:At present, high rise commercial Building is quite complex in implementing a Building Maintenance policy. The quality, safety and service are the criteria of the Building Maintenance policy which should be provided and implemented in the high rise commercial Buildings in order to sustain their value and economics. It also can benefit to the investment aspect as well as the Maintenance activities. The purpose of this paper is to look at the implementation of the Building Maintenance policy in Building Maintenance management of high rise commercial Buildings in Malaysia. Seven high rise office Buildings were investigated through randomly selection in Klang Valley, Malaysia. This study attempts to provide a perspective of in-house Building Maintenance personnel and outsourced consultant as well as contractors on the Maintenance policy practiced in Building Maintenance management of high rise office Buildings through unstructured interviews. This paper presents the preliminary finding of a study on the Building Maintenance policy issues in the particular Buildings. The current Maintenance policy procedures in Malaysia are however based on house rule and contract agreement. The weaknesses in the current procedures are the primary problems because they do not explicitly link Maintenance needs with performance management, strategic management and facilities management. The results had shown that the scope of Building Maintenance implemented varies from one Building to another. This implies the quality of Maintenance is not consistent especially in Building performance aspect. The most important finding is that the Building Maintenance policy standard is not available in all Buildings. This research establishes the need to develop a standard of Building Maintenance policy in high rise commercial Building to be enforced legally in order to ensure the consistency of quality, safety and service to end users as well as publics all the time. As a conclusion, Building Maintenance policy can be a tool in order to measure and value the quality of the Maintenance and operation processes improvement link with performance management, strategic management and facilities management
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Building Maintenance POLICY FOR OFFICE HIGH RISE BuildingS IN MALAYSIA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN KLANG VALLEY
2011Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib Ibrahim, Kuala LumpurAbstract:Large high rise Building is relatively complicated in Maintenance. The value of Buildings depends on the quality, safety and service of the Maintenance policy standard provided and implemented in them. Building Maintenance policy standard involves obtaining maximum benefit from the investment made on the Maintenance activities. This paper presents the preliminary finding of a study on the Building Maintenance policy standard of selected large high rise Buildings in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Seven office high rise Buildings were investigated. Information on Maintenance policy, including the type of Maintenance conducted, the existence policy and budget, is collected through unstructured interviews. Maintenance in Buildings in Malaysia is on the increase regardless of size, type, location, and ownership. The current Maintenance policy procedures in Malaysia are however based on house rule and contract agreement. The weaknesses in the current procedures are the primary problems because they do not explicitly link Maintenance needs with Building performance with respect to the Building users. The Building users measure the performance of a Building with various criteria. The condition of a Building is just one of those criteria. This research establishes the need for a Building Maintenance policy that is based on the concept of Building’s value in the effort to lead towards the optimization of Building Maintenance system. Maintenance policy standard that is value based allows users to be proactively put at the centre of Maintenance management during decision making processes and takes into consideration both the objective and subjective requirements of users. The paper concludes that a clear Maintenance policy does not exist yet in the Maintenance of high rise Buildings.
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Strategic and operational factors influence on Building Maintenance management operation process in office high rise Buildings
2010Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:The main objective of this paper is to examine strategic and operational factors influencing Building Maintenance management operation processes in office high rise Buildings. Four factors are identified in Building Maintenance management: Building Maintenance policy, strategic management, facility management and performance management. The Building Maintenance management operation processes is the key for providing better built environment to Building owner, tenants, occupants and Maintenance professionals. It is particularly important in managing hospitality facilities in office high rise Buildings. However, planned Maintenance and unplanned Maintenance are not in a high priority list in most of the organizations. This barrier contributes to the gaps between top management at the strategic level and Maintenance personnel at the operational level. Building Maintenance is changing pace with the development of facility management, which has impacts on the planning to implementation of Maintenance operation processes and Building performance. The information related to the strategic and operational factors is essential before an in-depth study is undertaken about the improvement of the gaps between top management at the strategic level and Maintenance personnel at the operational level for Building operation efficiency.
Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Building Maintenance Achievement in High Rise Commercial Building: A Study in Klang Valley, Malaysia
2012Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:The value of Buildings depends on the achievement of the Maintenance invested in them. Building Maintenance management engages getting maximum benefit from the investment made on the Maintenance activities. Building Maintenance in high rise commercial Buildings in Malaysia is on the increase regardless of size, type, location, and ownership. This paper aims to develop a Maintenance achievement index (MAI) to benchmark the performance of Building Maintenance from a number of key performance indicators (KPIs). Eleven high rise office Buildings were investigated through randomly selection in Klang Valley, Malaysia. The research collected 110 respondents from in-house Building Maintenance personnel and outsourced consultant as well as contractors with managing and operating Building Maintenance activities experience of high rise commercial Buildings through unstructured interviews. In addition, a Maintenance achievement equation was formulated from the primary components analysis to generate a multiple score so as to show the level of achievement of Building Maintenance management. The findings of study had shown that Building Maintenance practitioners believe quality, safety, time, cost, functionality, and environmental friendliness can be considered as KPIs for Building Maintenance activities. A single index can also be computed from the Maintenance achievement equation to apply different weightings to the respective KPI with different significance such that the performance of Building Maintenance managements can be compared. The idea of achievement remains unclear among Building Maintenance practitioners, which makes it complicated to measure whether the performance of a Building Maintenance management is accomplishment or failure. This research establishes the need to develop a MAI which can be a tool in order to measure and value on the whole performance of the Building Maintenance activities and compute the success model in a scientific approach in order to ensure the consistency of quality, safety, time, cost, functionality, and environmental friendliness to Building stakeholders all the time.
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Building Maintenance POLICY ISSUES IN HIGH RISE COMMERCIAL BuildingS
2011Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:At present, high rise commercial Building is quite complex in implementing a Building Maintenance policy. The quality, safety and service are the criteria of the Building Maintenance policy which should be provided and implemented in the high rise commercial Buildings in order to sustain their value and economics. It also can benefit to the investment aspect as well as the Maintenance activities. The purpose of this paper is to look at the implementation of the Building Maintenance policy in Building Maintenance management of high rise commercial Buildings in Malaysia. Seven high rise office Buildings were investigated through randomly selection in Klang Valley, Malaysia. This study attempts to provide a perspective of in-house Building Maintenance personnel and outsourced consultant as well as contractors on the Maintenance policy practiced in Building Maintenance management of high rise office Buildings through unstructured interviews. This paper presents the preliminary finding of a study on the Building Maintenance policy issues in the particular Buildings. The current Maintenance policy procedures in Malaysia are however based on house rule and contract agreement. The weaknesses in the current procedures are the primary problems because they do not explicitly link Maintenance needs with performance management, strategic management and facilities management. The results had shown that the scope of Building Maintenance implemented varies from one Building to another. This implies the quality of Maintenance is not consistent especially in Building performance aspect. The most important finding is that the Building Maintenance policy standard is not available in all Buildings. This research establishes the need to develop a standard of Building Maintenance policy in high rise commercial Building to be enforced legally in order to ensure the consistency of quality, safety and service to end users as well as publics all the time. As a conclusion, Building Maintenance policy can be a tool in order to measure and value the quality of the Maintenance and operation processes improvement link with performance management, strategic management and facilities management
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Building Maintenance POLICY FOR OFFICE HIGH RISE BuildingS IN MALAYSIA: A PRELIMINARY STUDY IN KLANG VALLEY
2011Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib Ibrahim, Kuala LumpurAbstract:Large high rise Building is relatively complicated in Maintenance. The value of Buildings depends on the quality, safety and service of the Maintenance policy standard provided and implemented in them. Building Maintenance policy standard involves obtaining maximum benefit from the investment made on the Maintenance activities. This paper presents the preliminary finding of a study on the Building Maintenance policy standard of selected large high rise Buildings in Klang Valley, Malaysia. Seven office high rise Buildings were investigated. Information on Maintenance policy, including the type of Maintenance conducted, the existence policy and budget, is collected through unstructured interviews. Maintenance in Buildings in Malaysia is on the increase regardless of size, type, location, and ownership. The current Maintenance policy procedures in Malaysia are however based on house rule and contract agreement. The weaknesses in the current procedures are the primary problems because they do not explicitly link Maintenance needs with Building performance with respect to the Building users. The Building users measure the performance of a Building with various criteria. The condition of a Building is just one of those criteria. This research establishes the need for a Building Maintenance policy that is based on the concept of Building’s value in the effort to lead towards the optimization of Building Maintenance system. Maintenance policy standard that is value based allows users to be proactively put at the centre of Maintenance management during decision making processes and takes into consideration both the objective and subjective requirements of users. The paper concludes that a clear Maintenance policy does not exist yet in the Maintenance of high rise Buildings.
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Strategic and operational factors influence on Building Maintenance management operation process in office high rise Buildings
2010Co-Authors: Mohamad Ridzuan Yahya, Najib IbrahimAbstract:The main objective of this paper is to examine strategic and operational factors influencing Building Maintenance management operation processes in office high rise Buildings. Four factors are identified in Building Maintenance management: Building Maintenance policy, strategic management, facility management and performance management. The Building Maintenance management operation processes is the key for providing better built environment to Building owner, tenants, occupants and Maintenance professionals. It is particularly important in managing hospitality facilities in office high rise Buildings. However, planned Maintenance and unplanned Maintenance are not in a high priority list in most of the organizations. This barrier contributes to the gaps between top management at the strategic level and Maintenance personnel at the operational level. Building Maintenance is changing pace with the development of facility management, which has impacts on the planning to implementation of Maintenance operation processes and Building performance. The information related to the strategic and operational factors is essential before an in-depth study is undertaken about the improvement of the gaps between top management at the strategic level and Maintenance personnel at the operational level for Building operation efficiency.
Regis Bonetto - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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method and tools for Building Maintenance plan arbitration
Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, 2011Co-Authors: Franck Taillandier, Gerard Sauce, Regis BonettoAbstract:Purpose – Buildings Maintenance is a complex activity: importance of issues, scales crossing, diversity of civil engineering domains … The key point of this activity is the elaboration of the Maintenance. This paper seeks to present a method and the associated tools to elaborate a Building Maintenance plan considering the complexity of the facility management.Design/methodology/approach – The risk notion can be a solution to handle the complexity. Specialists may specify each decision in terms of risk form in order to purchase (reflecting the probability and the associated consequences) a rich view about the global situation. The principle is to use a simulation logic, to compare the situation in terms of risk, with or without the realization of an action (work, equipment replacement, formation, etc.). This simulation logic must be based on efficient software tools, which enable one to manage the risk database ergonomically.Findings – The method took the form of an experiment in a leading French company. ...
Marjan Sarshar - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Visualization of the Modeled Degradation of Building Flooring Systems in Building Maintenance
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2014Co-Authors: Parisa Ghodous, Farzad Khosrowshahi, Marjan SarsharAbstract:he development of a Maintenance program for construction projects is a highly complex and data-intensive undertaking. This exercise is characterized by the lack of relevant data on the one hand and the overwhelming amount of extraneous data on the other. The uncertainties and complexities have resulted in increased conservatism in the development of life-cycle evaluation of Building Maintenance programming, subsequently, these programs tend to display the symptoms of either the Maintenance actions being uneconomical or fall short of providing the appropriate service to the users of the Building. The current research project is based on the premise that the visual approach will facilitate a just-in-time solution to Maintenance scheduling, hence, the use of virtual simulation of the Building is proposed. The broader aim of this research is to develop a complete Building Maintenance program through visualization of Buildings as they degrade over time. Here, the focus is on the flooring system and the manner they degrade over time. This requires a better understanding of their pattern and rate of usage. To this end, anthroposophy and anthropocentric descriptions of human movement pattern have been used to describe the behavior of “subjects” and subsequently represent the pattern and density of the degradation of flooring systems. The mathematics representing this behavior has been developed which enables it to be embedded into the proposed overall visual Building Maintenance model.
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Visualization of the Modeled Degradation of Building Flooring Systems in Building Maintenance
Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, 2013Co-Authors: Farzad Khosrowshahi, Parisa Ghodous, Marjan SarsharAbstract:The development of a Maintenance programme for construction projects is a highly complex and data intensive undertaking. This exercise is characterised by the lack of relevant data on the one hand and the overwhelming amount of extraneous data on the other. The uncertainties and complexities have resulted in increased conservatism in the development of lifecycle evaluation of Building Maintenance programing, subsequently, these programmes tend to display the symptoms of either the Maintenance actions being uneconomical or fall short of providing the appropriate service to the users of the Building. The current research project is based on the premise that the visual approach will facilitate a just-in-time solution to Maintenance scheduling, hence, the use of virtual simulation of the Building is proposed. The broader aim of this research is to develop a complete Building Maintenance programme through visualisation of Buildings as they degrade over time. Here, the focus is on the flooring system and the manner they degrade over time. This requires a better understanding of their pattern and rate of usage. To this end, Anthroposophy and Anthropocentric descriptions of human movement pattern have been used to describe the behaviour of 'subjects' and subsequently represent the pattern and density of the degradation of flooring systems. The mathematics representing this behaviour has been developed which enables it to be embedded into the proposed overall visual Building Maintenance model.
Franck Taillandier - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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method and tools for Building Maintenance plan arbitration
Engineering Construction and Architectural Management, 2011Co-Authors: Franck Taillandier, Gerard Sauce, Regis BonettoAbstract:Purpose – Buildings Maintenance is a complex activity: importance of issues, scales crossing, diversity of civil engineering domains … The key point of this activity is the elaboration of the Maintenance. This paper seeks to present a method and the associated tools to elaborate a Building Maintenance plan considering the complexity of the facility management.Design/methodology/approach – The risk notion can be a solution to handle the complexity. Specialists may specify each decision in terms of risk form in order to purchase (reflecting the probability and the associated consequences) a rich view about the global situation. The principle is to use a simulation logic, to compare the situation in terms of risk, with or without the realization of an action (work, equipment replacement, formation, etc.). This simulation logic must be based on efficient software tools, which enable one to manage the risk database ergonomically.Findings – The method took the form of an experiment in a leading French company. ...
