Surveyor variability in large‐scale house condition surveys

Kempton, Jim; Nichol, Simon; Anumba, Chimray; Dickens, John

doi:10.1108/02630800110406658

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“…It is important that they bear this in mind when drawing up work plans and budgets. Kempton et al (2001) recommend that one potential approach to reducing surveyor variability is to increase objectivity by developing mechanisms for assessing individual surveyor variable tendencies. Kempton (2004) suggests that data collected from stock condition surveys should be treated with a full awareness of the potential variability that it may contain.…”

Section: Role Of Stock Condition Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard on planned maintenance in social housing

Wamuziri¹

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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In 2004, the devolved administration announced to parliament details of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS), which set targets for bringing all social housing to a minimum tolerable standard by 2015. In this paper, the key features of the SHQS are outlined and the progress made to date by housing associations and local authorities in upgrading their properties to meet criteria in the standard is assessed. Stock condition surveys play a very important role in the development of a planned maintenance programme. Unfortunately, prior to development of the SHQS, experience of social landlords with stock condition surveys was very unsatisfactory. This research investigated recent experiences of social housing landlords with stock condition surveys and concludes that comprehensive surveys have actually been carried out and to a very high standard. They have been well structured and carried out in great detail, designed specifically with drawing up operational and strategic maintenance plans to fulfil requirements in the SHQS. What was found to be perhaps less than satisfactory is the apparent lack of a standardised property management information system that is capable of incorporating data from stock condition surveys and planned maintenance programmes. As a consequence, many social landlords have resorted to the development of bespoke systems. It should be emphasised that this conclusion is based on a limited sample of responses from local authorities and housing associations and therefore may be biased. For this reason, further research based on a large-scale survey is warranted.

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Section: Role Of Stock Condition Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

Influence of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard on planned maintenance in social housing

Wamuziri¹

2013

Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Municipal E

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“…Visual observation, manual reporting and interpretation have been shown to have drawbacks (Kempton et al, 2001;Menches et al, 2008;Phares et al, 2001). First, important details can be missed, misinterpreted, or field measurements and calculations can be incorrect during the inspection.…”

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“…Some factors affecting the detailing and thoroughness of the inspection and the reports are safety concerns of the inspectors, experience and training, and time constraints. Finally, interpretation of the reports and overall results of the inspection can vary (Kempton et al, 2001;Menches et al, 2008;Phares et al, 2001).…”

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confidence: 96%

Representation of Damage Information for Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Frames

Anil¹,

Akinci²,

Garrett³

et al. 2013

Computing in Civil Engineering

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Current practice of post-earthquake damage assessment is based on visual inspections by experts. Research has shown that visual inspection and reports produced as a result of inspections can be subjective, incomplete, and vary in terms of the level of detail and thoroughness. Critical data that provides information about damage can be captured using laser scanners and processed for a more objective and information driven damage assessment practice. In addition to damage information, the damage severity identification process requires reasoning about the structural behavior and topology. Building Information Modeling can be used as the underlying information source to streamline the damage assessment process. This research aims at representing crack information using a Building Information Modeling approach. In order to support reasoning for damage assessment, three activities were performed: 1) requirements were identified based on accepted damage assessment codes and standards; 2) capabilities of Industry Foundation Classes were explored for representing crack information; and 3) suggestions were provided for using existing concepts in IFCs for representing cracks.

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“…The practice of condition assessment by building inspectors yields variable results due to subjective perceptions of the inspectors Surveyor variability is defined as the situation where two or more surveyors surveying the same building, arrive at very different survey decisions [12] and [13]. PWD has developed the standard Guideline Condition Assessment of building components including services in a year 2013.…”

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Building Condition Assessment: Lesson Learnt from Pilot Projects

2016

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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.

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Surveyor variability in large‐scale house condition surveys

Cited by 13 publications

References 5 publications

Influence of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard on planned maintenance in social housing

Influence of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard on planned maintenance in social housing

Representation of Damage Information for Post-Earthquake Damage Assessment of Reinforced Concrete Frames

Building Condition Assessment: Lesson Learnt from Pilot Projects

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