Abstract. Building condition assessment is growing and become more important in the context of the built environment and Asset Management in Malaysia. This paper presents the method and the use of a standard guidelines for Building Condition Assessment (BCA) as a tool to evaluate the physical condition of the building. The purpose of this paper is to understand the use of BCA in assessing building condition. The methodology was based on literature review, review contents from archive document of Public Work Department (PWD) Malaysia which is involved study on the existing methods, proposal, discussion, piloting, improvement, approval and analysis of data. A case study involved of 15 buildings with various function such as office, health clinic, quarters and learning institution involved by more than 300 numbers of building inspectors or assessors. The findings shows that the using of the standard for condition assessment, the building inspectors or assessors can provide the data and condition rating to the buildings according to the standard. The results then used to examine a level consistency of BCA in data collection and it will easily assessed and understood, and the appropriateness of BCA to different types of buildings.
Defects and damage to the building are defined as the failure of the ability of the building to deliver services as expected. Inefficiency in handling defects or damage buildings systematically have to cause various effects and negative impact to users and is also the owner of the building. A total of 300 school buildings has been chosen for this study to identify the factors contribute to the building defects and to identify the condition of the buildings. The purpose of this paper is to establish the relationship between factors affecting, defects and building condition. The data is collected from through secondary reports from archive document of Public Work Department (PWD) Malaysia. A semi structure interview was conducted to confirm the common factors contribute to the defects especially for building in Malaysia. The findings show the 7 factors contribute a significant relationship with building condition of the school building such as maintenance, waterproofing, vandalism, lack of supervision, cleaning, user and the chemical agent. Result also shows found that 16 schools in good condition, 218 schools in average condition, 65 schools in critical condition and 1 school in very critical condition.
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