Classification of Maintenance Costs in Scottish Housing Associations
Publication: Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 7, Issue 3
Abstract
The maintenance manager is frequently presented with the task of maintaining many properties over an extended period, with limited resources. To use these limited resources wisely, the manager must be able to not only control costs for maintenance but also minimize the management effort required to address that maintenance. This paper proposes that by determining the nature of those maintenance costs, the managerial effort required for cost control can be limited. Five major associations were studied to identify the sources of their maintenance costs and establish the relationship between the nature of maintenance costs incurred, work types, and frequency of jobs. The result of this study is a method of classifying trades according to three criteria that allow the identification of trends in maintenance work and the allocation of managerial effort according to the characteristics of the work. A method for identifying significant sources of maintenance costs and determining the appropriate managerial system for each type of job is proposed.
Get full access to this article
View all available purchase options and get full access to this article.
References
1.
Allaman, I. (1988). “Significant items estimating.” Chartered Quantity Surveyor, (Sept.), 24–25.
2.
“Building maintenance cost.” (1991). Serial Rep. 200. Building Maintenance Information Ltd., London, England.
3.
“The economic significance of maintenance—maintenance expenditure (1979–1989).” (1991). Special Rep. 198. Building Maintenance Information Ltd., London, England.
4.
Horner, R. M. W. (1991). “Fundamentals of construction project cost control system.” Conf. on Productivity and Project Modelling, Cavtat, 437–445.
5.
Horner, R. M. W., Mair, A. J., Peebles, K. M., and Zakieh, R. (1989). “Computer‐aided construction project management.” Civil‐Comp 89, 4th Int. Conf. on Civ. and Struct. Engrg. Computing, Vol. 1, 29–38.
6.
Martin, J. L. N. (1987). Monitoring the movement of maintenance costs. Building Cost Information Service, London, England.
7.
Saket, M. M. (1986). “Cost‐signficance applied to estimating and control of construction projects,” PhD thesis, Dept. of Civ. Engineering, The Univ. of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland.
Information & Authors
Information
Published In
Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities
Volume 7 • Issue 3 • August 1993
Pages: 186 - 194
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Received: Dec 14, 1992
Published online: Aug 1, 1993
Published in print: Aug 1993
Authors
Metrics & Citations
Metrics
Citations
Download citation
If you have the appropriate software installed, you can download article citation data to the citation manager of your choice. Simply select your manager software from the list below and click Download.