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Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process

Facilities management (FM) has a significant growth since last two decades as a new and exciting profession that embraces many essential parts of the built environment. Emphasis on early involvement of FM in the design stage to deliver of an efficient building; which is easy and cost-effective to ma...

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Main Authors: Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri, Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria, Misnan, Mohd. Saidin, Islam, Md. Rashidul, Bjorberg, Svein
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Published: International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET) 2018
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TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/82136/
http://dx.doi.org/10.21817/ijet/2017/v9i6/170906063
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spelling my.utm.821362019-11-05T03:54:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/82136/ Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria Misnan, Mohd. Saidin Islam, Md. Rashidul Bjorberg, Svein TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering Facilities management (FM) has a significant growth since last two decades as a new and exciting profession that embraces many essential parts of the built environment. Emphasis on early involvement of FM in the design stage to deliver of an efficient building; which is easy and cost-effective to maintain for the occupants. Present days, maintainability turn into foremost concern and unprecedented challenges for the project team as building projects are getting much more complex and difficult. However, lack of considering FM at early design phase has become a potential issue to increase the operation and maintenance budget, premature aging and dilapidation. Thus, this paper explores the consideration of direct involvement of FM knowledge and experience in early design is found useful for the improvement of cost effectiveness in long term perspective, and subsequently the aim of this paper to investigate the impact of design issues towards easily-maintainable building projects at post-occupancy stage and providing the actual avenues to integrate FM in design development process. Therefore, a critical analysis of the literature has been carried out to identify the potential errors of design at post occupancy stage. The paper critically analyses the current approach of building design; and explore the contributions of FM knowledge during the design phase. Based on the study of literature, it has been established that majority of the maintenance issues at using stage is design originated problems; mainly architectural, structural, mechanical, HVAC, and plumbing and sanitary. International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET) 2018 Article PeerReviewed Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri and Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria and Misnan, Mohd. Saidin and Islam, Md. Rashidul and Bjorberg, Svein (2018) Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process. International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET), 9 (6). pp. 4515-4526. ISSN 2319-8613 http://dx.doi.org/10.21817/ijet/2017/v9i6/170906063 DOI: 10.21817/ijet/2017/v9i6/170906063
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topic TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
spellingShingle TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering
Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri
Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria
Misnan, Mohd. Saidin
Islam, Md. Rashidul
Bjorberg, Svein
Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
description Facilities management (FM) has a significant growth since last two decades as a new and exciting profession that embraces many essential parts of the built environment. Emphasis on early involvement of FM in the design stage to deliver of an efficient building; which is easy and cost-effective to maintain for the occupants. Present days, maintainability turn into foremost concern and unprecedented challenges for the project team as building projects are getting much more complex and difficult. However, lack of considering FM at early design phase has become a potential issue to increase the operation and maintenance budget, premature aging and dilapidation. Thus, this paper explores the consideration of direct involvement of FM knowledge and experience in early design is found useful for the improvement of cost effectiveness in long term perspective, and subsequently the aim of this paper to investigate the impact of design issues towards easily-maintainable building projects at post-occupancy stage and providing the actual avenues to integrate FM in design development process. Therefore, a critical analysis of the literature has been carried out to identify the potential errors of design at post occupancy stage. The paper critically analyses the current approach of building design; and explore the contributions of FM knowledge during the design phase. Based on the study of literature, it has been established that majority of the maintenance issues at using stage is design originated problems; mainly architectural, structural, mechanical, HVAC, and plumbing and sanitary.
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author Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri
Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria
Misnan, Mohd. Saidin
Islam, Md. Rashidul
Bjorberg, Svein
author_facet Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri
Mohd. Yusof, Zakaria
Misnan, Mohd. Saidin
Islam, Md. Rashidul
Bjorberg, Svein
author_sort Mohamed, Sarajul Fikri
title Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
title_short Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
title_full Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
title_fullStr Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
title_full_unstemmed Towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
title_sort towards a framework to integrate facilities management cost effective parameters in design process
publisher International Journal of Engineering and Technology (IJET)
publishDate 2018
url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/82136/
http://dx.doi.org/10.21817/ijet/2017/v9i6/170906063
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