Building Care

Building Care

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Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design. A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g.

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Building Care by Brian Jb Wood

Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches, including the effects on design. A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM - preventative planned maintenance; JIT - just in time) are explained, together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.
'This is a very well written book, interesting, comprehensive and easy to read, covering all aspects from maintenence to customer care to energy conservation'

Building Engineer

Brian Wood is a senior lecturer in the School of the Built Environment at Oxford Brookes University. He previously worked in the public and private sectors as an architect and surveyor. He was a contributor to Quality in Traditional House Building, published by the Building Research Establishment, and is author of Building Care. www.wiley.com/go/construction

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ISBN 13 9780632060498
ISBN 10 0632060492
Title Building Care
Author Brian Jb Wood
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year published 2003-04-09
Number of pages 208
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