Building Defects or Building Failures: Misconception and Understanding

Abstract:

The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief of overview of building failures and building defects definitions with various terms from the previous researches and also to redefine the understanding of these definitions within the context of building maintenance management domain. Therefore, this article presents the insight of previous definition of building failures and building defects and provides their respective understanding in various aspects. It then provides the detail discussion on the building failures and defects definitions, understanding causes and effects in term of building maintenance management perspective. All the related onformatin has been gathered through secondary resources such as journal article, text book, report and others. The information and knowledge on the subject of building failures and building defects help in producing the building design with reliable, maintainability, and supporting for future building maintenance and building improvement. Finally, this paper has successed in describing a clear explanation regarding to the meaning of building failures and building defects.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volume 747)
• Pages: 355-358
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.747.355
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: Shardy Abdullah, Ellemy Iskandar, Arman Abdul Razak*
• Keywords: Building Defects, Building Failure, Building Maintenance

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