Building care / Brian Wood.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design.

A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM - preventative planned maintenance; JIT - just in time) are explained, together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Background and introduction
• Planned preventive maintenance prevails
• Just in time:gurus from East and West
• Procurement of building maintenance services
• Reengineering the process
• Enter customer care, contact and call centres
• Intelligent building care
• Sustainable building care
• Building futures:left or right
• Cradle to grave:whole life assessment and implications for design

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Brian Wood is a senior lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He previously worked in the public and private sectors as an architect and surveyor. He was a contributor to Quality in Traditional House Building , published by the Building Research Establishment, and is author of Building Care . www.wiley.com/go/construction