...Nicholas Tymvios; Jake Smithwick; Michael Behm Purpose With proper design and work planning, falls through fragile skylights are preventable. Skylights pose a hazard to workers when their work tasks for operations, maintenance and repair require them to be on roofs. The National Institute...

... review, case studies and survey questionnaire was designed to achieve the above-mentioned aim. Firstly, literature review was used to examine the concepts of building maintenance, maintainability, the design process and ESI. Secondly, three case studies were presented and analysed to investigate the role...

... the systems’ performance. The spares and crews have as much effect on the systems’ performance as the design characteristics (i.e. reliability and maintainability). Thus, the OEMs required to extent the support to their products through maintenance, spares, crews, etc., so as to gain the customer satisfaction...

...A.B. Khalaf; Y. Hamam; Y. Alayli; K. Djouani Purpose Studying the availability of medical equipment based on various maintenance types has been a major concern for hospitals. Most of the methodologies used are empirical and few are based on mathematical modelling. The objective of this paper...

... to researchers, designers, maintenance professionals and others concerned with maintainability of a system. This paper is equally useful for the researchers and design professionals from the domain of engineering design irrespective of their field of application. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2011...

... the preservation of buildings' structural and fabrics integrity. Hampton University has a rich heritage of prestigious architecture and historic buildings. Apparently, buildings deteriorate overtime, and Hampton University building stock is not immune to this problem. As a strategic maintenance plan...