Building Maintenance Processes and Practices

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Evaluation of Maintenance and EOL Operation Performance of Sensor-Embedded Laptops

“…Several different maintenance strategies can be employed to maintain products: preventive maintenance, corrective maintenance, predictive maintenance, and proactive maintenance. Olanrewaju and Abdul-Aziz [24] described these strategies in depth. Predictive maintenance is interest of this study.…”

Maintenance Performance Framework for National Religious Secondary Schools in Malaysia

“…Every completed building must be maintained to ensure it could well functioned as intended purpose. The definition of maintenance management keep on updating where recent scholars like Olanrewaju & Aziz (2015), have redefined maintenance management as a process and services undertaken to preserve, protect, enhance and care for the buildings' fabrics and services after completion, in accordance with the prevailing standards to enable the building and services to serve their intended functions throughout their entire life span without drastically upsetting their basic features and uses. The challenges of performing school buildings maintenance is not only limited to the developing countries like Malaysia.…”

Appropriate Strategic Management Approaches for Enhancing Project Performance Through the Adoption of the Industrialized Building System in the Malaysian Construction Sector

“…The emphasis of the National Mission is to enhance the nation's capability and on capacity building for knowledge and innovation to move the economy up the value chain. The construction sector is targeted to play a significant role as it is recognized as a strategic tool for achieving sustainable development, creating employment opportunities and contributing to gross fixed capital formation (Olanrewaju & Abdul-Aziz, 2015). Although the global economic climate is volatile with sharply reduced oil prices and a depreciated Ringgit, the outlook for the Malaysian construction industry remains positive.…”

“…Recognizing the pivotal role that IBS can play in improving performance, the Malaysian Government is encouraging the construction industry to embrace IBS. The use of IBS was made mandatory in 2008 for the construction of public buildings and public support for this is reflected by "the granting of accelerated capital allowances for companies with purchases on mould for the production of IBS components" (Olanrewaju & Abdul-Aziz, 2015). Another challenge is the growing competition in the industry emerging from the removal of trade barriers which has facilitated foreign construction firms to internalize their operations by moving into the Malaysian market.…”

“…There is a gap between Malaysian construction firms and their foreign counter-parts in technology, finance, management and leadership (Olanrewaju & Abdul-Aziz, 2015). They also have to adopt materials, techniques and practices with result in outcomes that have a minimum environmental impact (Ofori, 2000).…”