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Table 1.

Related research on HVAC maintainability

Research	Primary investigation	No. of issues investigated	Output	Defects ranking analysis
Hassanain et al. (2014)	– HVAC maintenance in 13 public Saudi Arabian universities. – Design decisions and maintenance issues. – Lack of communication and feedback from maintenance to design teams	12 HVAC maintenance defects	– A list of maintenance issues – Developed three sets of validated design stage maintainability guidelines, at 30%, 60% and 90% design completion stages	Relative importance index (RII)
Chew Yit Lin (2010)	– Design, construction and maintenance-related issues affecting commercial buildings’ maintenance costs	39 HVAC defects	A list of HVAC defects and FMECA-based criticality weights	Weights for each defect were calculated using a modified failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
Chew (2016)	– Integration of buildings’ maintainability with green facility management approaches	39 HVAC maintenance issue	A list of HVAC defects and FMECA-based criticality weights	Weights for each defect were calculated using FMECA
Chew et al. (2018)	– Visual inspection of HVAC defects in buildings	19 HVAC maintenance issue	A list of HVAC maintenance issues supported by design-stage guidelines for design, construction and maintenance
Arroyo et al. (2016)	– Choosing by advantage (CBA) as a method to improve HVAC design decisions – Optimization of HVAC’s LCC by building a communication and decision framework between all stakeholders, including the maintenance team	7 HVAC design factors to apply through CBA	A framework of CBA methodology for selection of HVAC for a museum	CBA
Hassanain and Harkness (2000)	– Design guidelines for fresh air system replacement based on a case study	27 Design factors	27 design factors with explanations for the design team
Balaras et al. (2007)	– HVAC indoor environmental conditions for operating rooms	6 Design components representing indoor conditions	Design guidelines
Thiel and Mroz (2001)	– HVAC selection method for museums based on the decision-maker’s performance preferences		A selected system	Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)
Wang et al. (2009a)	– Selecting an optimal HVAC system using a fuzzy multicriteria evaluation model to	16 Criteria	A selected system	Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and TOPSIS
Chinese et al. (2011)	– Selecting a heating system for an industrial facility using an AHP approach	9 Criteria		AHP

Research	Primary investigation	No. of issues investigated	Output	Defects ranking analysis
Hassanain et al. (2014)	– HVAC maintenance in 13 public Saudi Arabian universities.– Design decisions and maintenance issues.– Lack of communication and feedback from maintenance to design teams	12 HVAC maintenance defects	– A list of maintenance issues– Developed three sets of validated design stage maintainability guidelines, at 30%, 60% and 90% design completion stages	Relative importance index (RII)
Chew Yit Lin (2010)	– Design, construction and maintenance-related issues affecting commercial buildings’ maintenance costs	39 HVAC defects	A list of HVAC defects and FMECA-based criticality weights	Weights for each defect were calculated using a modified failure mode effects and criticality analysis (FMECA)
Chew (2016)	– Integration of buildings’ maintainability with green facility management approaches	39 HVAC maintenance issue	A list of HVAC defects and FMECA-based criticality weights	Weights for each defect were calculated using FMECA
Chew et al. (2018)	– Visual inspection of HVAC defects in buildings	19 HVAC maintenance issue	A list of HVAC maintenance issues supported by design-stage guidelines for design, construction and maintenance
Arroyo et al. (2016)	– Choosing by advantage (CBA) as a method to improve HVAC design decisions– Optimization of HVAC’s LCC by building a communication and decision framework between all stakeholders, including the maintenance team	7 HVAC design factors to apply through CBA	A framework of CBA methodology for selection of HVAC for a museum	CBA
Hassanain and Harkness (2000)	– Design guidelines for fresh air system replacement based on a case study	27 Design factors	27 design factors with explanations for the design team
Balaras et al. (2007)	– HVAC indoor environmental conditions for operating rooms	6 Design components representing indoor conditions	Design guidelines
Thiel and Mroz (2001)	– HVAC selection method for museums based on the decision-maker’s performance preferences		A selected system	Multiple criteria decision-making (MCDM)
Wang et al. (2009a)	– Selecting an optimal HVAC system using a fuzzy multicriteria evaluation model to	16 Criteria	A selected system	Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and TOPSIS
Chinese et al. (2011)	– Selecting a heating system for an industrial facility using an AHP approach	9 Criteria		AHP

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