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Impact Of Maintenance Of Buildings And Infrastructural Facilities To The National Economy
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1.8 definition of terms
Definition of maintenance as regards to buildings and infrastructures
Maintenance
is a generic term to include planned maintenance, repair and
reimbursement and provision of replacement of the structure. The goal of
maintenance is to sustain the life of major assets whether building or
infrastructure. (According to a training workshop on maintenance of
infrastructures between 28 march- 1st April 2011 in kuala lumpur,
Malaysia. Organized by International science, technology and innovation
centre for south-south co-operation under the auspices of UNESCO).
British
standard(BS 583) (1974) define maintenance as the combination of all
technical and associated administrative actions intended to retain an
item in, or restore it to, a state in which it can perform its required
function. The requirement for maintenance must not be less than those
necessary to meet the relevant requirements and ‘maintained’ is defined
in factories act 1961 as “maintained in an efficient state, in efficient
working order and in good repairâ€
According to British Standard (BS
3811) maintenance is defined as “works undertaken in order to keep or
restore every facility i.e. every part of a building, site and concept
to an acceptable standardâ€. An acceptable standard in building terms is
one which sustains the utility and value of the facility.
Chartered
institute of building (C.I.O.B) UK (1982) went forward to use this
definition on maintenance “works undertaken to keep, restore or improve
every facility i.e. every part of the building, its services and
surroundings to agreed standards determined by the balance between need
and available resources.
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