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Methods to much improve maintenance.

K C Lam1

  • 1Department of Building Services Engineering, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Health Estate
|December 4, 2004
PubMed
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Value engineering (VE) and quality systems like quality assurance (QA) offer significant benefits for building services maintenance management. These approaches are especially valuable for complex hospital engineering services, though their adoption is currently limited.

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Area of Science:

  • Building Services Engineering
  • Management Science
  • Quality Management

Background:

  • The building services industry has not fully adopted value engineering (VE) and quality systems.
  • Quality assurance (QA) and total quality management (TQM) are established quality management frameworks.
  • Complex hospital engineering services present unique maintenance challenges.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To highlight the unrealized benefits of applying VE and quality systems to building services maintenance.
  • To emphasize the suitability of these management concepts for hospital engineering services.

Main Methods:

  • Conceptual analysis of VE and quality management principles.
  • Application of these principles to the context of building services maintenance, particularly in hospitals.

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Main Results:

  • Significant potential benefits from VE and QA/TQM in building maintenance remain untapped.
  • These methodologies can enhance efficiency and effectiveness in managing complex hospital systems.

Conclusions:

  • The building services sector should embrace VE and quality systems for improved maintenance.
  • Hospital engineering maintenance is a prime area for the implementation of these advanced management strategies.