Maintainability of Facilities: Green FM for Building Professionals (Second Edition)

By Yit Lin Chew

This book focuses on spearheading the integration of maintainability and green facility management right from the design stage. The text introduces the concept of green maintainability, and discusses considerations to maximize the performance by achieving resource and energy efficiency, while minimizing the total life cycle cost in embodied energy; environmental impact and consumption of matter/energy throughout the life cycle of a facility, by 'doing it right the first time'.In this edition, existing chapters have been brought up to date, to include contemporary sustainability concerns, such as: sustainability design, construction and materials, and maintainability of green features.Maintainability of Facilities is written for practitioners and students in architecture, engineering, building, real estate, construction, project management, facilities management, quantity and building surveying.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9814725641
• ISBN13: 9789814725644
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Length: 564 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"