Buildings Maintenance Management

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Buildings Maintenance Management

• Barry Neilsen FIE Aust, CPEng, MAIBS
• Director pittsherry

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Maintenance - BSI Definitions

• 1972
• Work carried out in order to keep, restore or
• improve every facility, ie. every part of the
• building, its services and surrounds to a
• currently acceptable standard and to sustain
• the utility and value of the facility
• 1991
• The combination of all technical and
  administrative
• actions, including supervision actions, intended
  to
• retain an item in, or restore it to, a state in
  which it
• can perform a required function

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Functions of a Management System

• Say what you are going to do (plan)
• Do what you said you were going to do (implement)
• Show you did what you said you were going to do
  (record)
• Feedback loop (continual improvement)

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Types of Building Maintenance

• Routine
• Emergency
• Conservation
• Statutory (eg. essential safety measures)
• OHS
• DDA
• Water use
• Energy use
• GhG emissions
• Bushfire hazard management

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Essential Safety Measures

• Victorian Building Regulations Part 12
• Has applied to all building post 1994
• From June 2009 applies to pre 1994 buildings
• Provisions are set out in Building Code of
• Australia, Volume One, Part I1

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Building Code Australia Part I1

• Building fire integrity
• Means of egress
• Signs
• Lighting
• Fire fighting services
• Air handling system
• Automatic fire detection and alarm systems
• Occupant warning systems
• Lifts
• Standby power supply systems
• Building perimeter access
• Other (glazing, balconies, balustrades etc.)
• Bushfire protection measures (Class 2 and 3)
• Building use

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Challenge

• To effectively manage a large range of
• expectations and information within resource
• (human and ) constraints