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Brian Wood (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0632060492 | ISBN-13: 978-0632060498 | Publication Date: May 26, 2003 | Edition: 1

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.

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'This is a very well written book, interesting, comprehensive and easy to read, covering all aspects from maintenence to customer care to energy conservation.'

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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. Practical guidance is offered to those responsible for running buildings - surveyors, facility managers and facility managers - to help them carry out efficient and effective building care services.Brian Wood reflects the move away from long-term, technology-based maintenance programmes to more customer-focussed practices and covers a range of alternative approaches to looking after buildings and their users. .

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell; 1 edition (May 26, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0632060492
ISBN-13: 978-0632060498
Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 6.8 x 0.5 inches
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,125,573 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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The last decade of the 20th century and the start of the 21st have seen significant growth and development in the discipline of facilities management. Read the first page

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combating cowboy builders, building maintenance market, sustainable care, lifecycle costing, building maintenance services, building maintenance industry, automated building, autonomous house, industrialised building, sustainable building, building care, planned preventive maintenance, maintenance sector, intelligent building, procurement route, condition survey, housing maintenance, motoring organisation, embodied energy, planned maintenance, radical review

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Green Flag, Building Research Establishment, New York, Audit Commission, Department of the Environment, Oxford Brookes University, English House Condition Survey, Blackwell Science, Kogan Page, National Construction Marketing Conference, Structural Survey, University of Reading, Journal of Quality, Maintenance Engineering, National Health Service, Oxford University Press, Realising the Benefits, Rethinking Construction, Ronan Point, Building Maintenance Management, Constructing the Team, Construction Industry Training Board, Creating the Productive Workplace, Free Press, Handbook of Facilities Management

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