Guide M: Maintenance engineering and management

Joanna Harris

• Publisher: The Chartered Institution of Building Services Engineers
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781906846503
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Construction & Architectural Engineering
• Index: Technology & Engineering

Interests in building performance are high on the agenda for organisations that own or operate buildings. The key to good performance is good management and maintenance.This guide is an update to provide best practice for those who have responsibility for the management and maintenance of the engineering services in a building. It also aims to inform those who design and construct buildings and raise awareness of the implications their decisions have on enabling effective management and maintenance.Our industry is concentrating on performance outcomes and closing the gap between design and operation. Working together we can help our clients by managing their expectations and maximising impact from their annual spends on maintenance and management of buildings.During the process of updating this guide, other sources of best practice guidance relevant to our industry have been published. The steering group has supported these guides, as appropriate, and the information we provide is compatible. The indicative economic life expectancy table published in this guide (Appendix 12.A1) supports some of these documents and the data has been thoroughly reviewed and expanded to cover many more asset types. Feedback to the Maintenance Task Group on the accuracy of this table is always encouraged, as the absence of hard data makes this a problematic task. We do, again, highlight that there are a wide range of factors that affect these estimated lives and we encourage the industry to recognise these factors when recommending life cycle replacements. There has been much work in the industry since the last edition of this Guide eight years ago, especially in the field of life cycle assessment, and we hope that Chapter 12 gives you enough information to make informed decisions.With the recent developments around Building Information Modelling (BIM) it is the management and maintenance teams that can benefit the most from the increase in useful information generated in a BIM project. We encourage you to look at the principles of BIM and introduce them in your existing buildings as you repair and replace assets, which will enable you to generate a wealth of information that will support the long-term management of your buildings.

Table of contents

• Guide M Maintenance engineering and management OFC
• Foreword
• Contents
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Guidance for building services designers
• 3 Maintenance strategy and techniques
• 4 Maintenance contracts
• 5 Energy efficiency and maintenance
• 6 Controls for building services
• 7 Commissioning and testing
• 8 Handover procedures
• 9 Operating and maintenance documentation
• 10 Operational risk assessment and management procedures
• 11 Operation and maintenance costs
• 12 Economic life factors and end of economic life
• 13 Maintenance audits
• 14 Condition surveys
• 15 Legislation and compliance
• 16 Health and comfort
• 17 Training
• Index