Designing for the Care and Maintenance of Buildings

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.

You can read the full article online at buildings.com website.

Russ