...Mohammad A. Hassanain; Sadi Assaf; Khalaf Al‐Ofi; Abdullah Al‐Abdullah Purpose The objectives of this paper are to identify and assess the factors that affect the cost of maintenance of hospital facilities. Design/methodology/approach The authors conducted a literature review on hospital...

... © MCB UP Limited 1998 --> Building costs Hospitals Building cost information service ­ hospital costs Keywords Building costs, Hospitals Nearly half the cost of constructing large hospitals is attributable to services installations,according to the BCIS Study...

... activities) and the nature and cause of the demand for maintenance in a major hospital complex. They have revealed no coherent picture, in that demand from wards and building seems independent of patient throughput and age of buildings. The demand for maintenance, for the main trades involved, namely...