Maintenance

Well its out today, the first public draft of Amendment No. 2 of Australian Standard AS1851-2005.

This draft is 18 pages long and includes many changes that people involved in the Maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment should consider carefully.

The summary of the draft reads as follows;

I stumbled across an interesting November 2007 article from the USA that discusses building design from an ongoing maintenance perspective.

Written by authors Stephen Schrag, Karen Smith, and Brett Stollenwerk, the article seeks to consider the various stakeholders involved in the design and construction of community facilities (such as architects, engineers, maintenance professionals, and occupants) to better understand each other's perspectives and to achieve an improved project outcome. There is no intent to pinpoint specific building deficiencies, but to illustrate - in general terms - past deficiencies and to encourage thought as to how these and other deficiencies can be reduced.

In the paper titled Identifying Failure Modes Retrospectively Using RCM Data, by J. Sikorska (Imes Australia Pty Ltd), L. Hammond (DSTO) and P. Kelly (CASWA Pty Ltd) show that it is possible to retrospectively improve the quality of failure histories stored in computerised maintenance management systems (CMMS). Here is a copy of the summary from the paper;

The Fire Protection Association of Australia has produced a new Technical Bulletin TB-011: Update for AS1851-2005 Maintenance of fire protection systems and equipment.

The bulletin provides discussion directed to FPA members, building owners, managers, tenants, maintenance companies, fire services, insurers and consultants and was designed to identify the ''key benefits'' of AS1851-2005 and highlight future refinements to the standard.