Building Care [Paperback]

Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design.

A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM - preventative planned maintenance; JIT - just in time) are explained, together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.

Background and introduction; Planned preventive maintenance prevails; Just in time:gurus from East and West; Procurement of building maintenance services; Reengineering the process; Enter customer care, contact and call centres; Intelligent building care; Sustainable building care; Building futures:left or right; Cradle to grave:whole life assessment and implications for design'This is a very well written book, interesting, comprehensive and easy to read, covering all aspects from maintenence to customer care to energy conservation.'

Building Engineer

Brian Wood is a senior lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He previously worked in the public and private sectors as an architect and surveyor. He was a contributor to Quality in Traditional House Building, published by the Building Research Establishment, and is author of Building Care. www.wiley.com/go/construction

Building Care encompasses everything from maintenance to energy conservation. But even though premises-related expenditure typically represents 15% of the running costs of a business, maintenance is still regarded as the Cinderella of the construction industry.

Building Care challenges this attitude by elevating maintenance to its proper professional level and explaining new ideas in clear, understandable terms. Prl“.