Maintainability Of Facilities: Green Fm For Building Professionals (Second Edition)

by Yit Lin Michael Chew

Overview

This book focuses on spearheading the integration of maintainability and green facility management right from the design stage. The text introduces the concept of green maintainability, and discusses considerations to maximize the performance by achieving resource and energy efficiency, while minimizing the total life cycle cost in embodied energy; environmental impact and consumption of matter/energy throughout the life cycle of a facility, by 'doing it right the first time'.In this edition, existing chapters have been brought up to date, to include contemporary sustainability concerns, such as: sustainability design, construction and materials, and maintainability of green features.Maintainability of Facilities is written for practitioners and students in architecture, engineering, building, real estate, construction, project management, facilities management, quantity and building surveying.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789814725644
Publisher:	World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date:	11/08/2016
Pages:	564
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.25(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction; Sustainability and Sustainable Construction; Wet Area; Façade; Basement; Roof; M & E; Material Selection; NDT; Maintainability Scoring System;