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Maintenance Engineering for Buildings

Digital Solutions and Sustainable Practices

  • 1st Edition - October 25, 2024
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Ntebo Ngcobo, Clinton Aigbavboa, Douglas Aghimien
  • Language: English

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Description

Maintenance Engineering for Buildings: Digital Solutions and Sustainable Practices offers a thorough body of knowledge on organizational frameworks, assessment models, and digital tools to carry out maintenance procedures aimed at keeping edifices and many other assets in the urban landscape not only in good working condition, but also compliant with regulatory safety requirements and environmental standards. As well as covering current research and the best practice in the field, the volume is enriched by a number of case studies taken from the educational sector which explore how recent developments and other trends from are being applied in different geographical and economic contexts.

This reference work stands out for its invaluable relevance to audiences both in industry and academia, while also serving as an excellent reference resource for future works in the area.

Key features

  • Combines recent research concepts with real-world examples to facilitate understanding
  • Introduces industry 4.0 technological advancements to provide reliable actionable guidance
  • Includes case studies that illustrate the state of practice in both developed and developing countries
  • Focuses on ‘green’ maintenance strategies that are equally relevant to the public sector infrastructure as a whole

Readership

Academics and researchers, postgraduate students in civil and structural engineering, construction engineering and management, environmental design and engineering, building surveying, technologies and materials science, conservation science, studies in urban sustainability, project operations research, The volume could also prove to be of significant interest to practitioners, consultants, and other stakeholders in all the fields described above, as well as policymakers and public and private agencies charged with sustainable infrastructures and urban assets’ development.

Table of contents

1. General introduction

2. Understanding sustainable building maintenance

3. Sustainable maintenance in the fourth industrial revolution

4. Sustainable maintenance models and frameworks

5. Gaps in existing sustainable maintenance frameworks and models

6. Conceptualising sustainable building maintenance in the fourth industrial revolution

7. Exploring the conceptualised sustainable building maintenance model through expert opinions

8. Sustainable maintenance strategies in developed countries – case studies from the educational sector

9. Sustainable maintenance strategies in developing countries – case studies from the educational sector

10. Conclusion

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: October 25, 2024
  • Language: English

About the authors

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Ntebo Ngcobo

Dr. Ngcobo holds a PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. She is currently the Head of the Civil Engineering Technology Dept. at the University of Johannesburg and oversees several research activities within the department. Her research interest cut across diverse areas in the built environment including maintenance of construction works. In collaboration with other researchers, she has authored several conference papers and journal articles.
Affiliations and expertise
Lecturer and Head of Department., Department of Civil Engineering Technology, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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Clinton Aigbavboa

Clinton Aigbavboa is a Professor of Sustainable Human Development and also the Director of the CIDB Centre of Excellence and Sustainable Human Settlement and Construction Research at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He holds a PhD in Engineering Management and, before his academic career began, he was a quantity surveyor for infrastructural projects in Nigeria and South Africa. He has published extensively in the areas of housing, construction, and engineering management, as well as research methodology for construction students. He is currently the Editor of the Journal of Construction Project Management and Innovation (accredited by the Department of Higher Education and Training of South Africa) and has received national and international recognition in his field of research.

Affiliations and expertise
Full Professor, Department of Construction Management and Quantity Surveying, Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

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Douglas Aghimien

Dr. Aghimien holds a PhD in Engineering Management from the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He currently teaches Quantity Surveying at the School of Arts, Design and Architecture at De Montfort University in the UK. He is a prolific researcher with a keen interest in construction digitalization, smart and sustainable construction, and value management.
Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Department of Built Environment, School of Arts, Design and Architecture, De Montfort University, Leicester, UK

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