Introduction to Built Asset Management

As tutors delivering, examining or externally moderating modules in built asset management and maintenance, the authors believe that existing textbooks do not meet the needs of current (and future) learners. Introduction to Building Asset Management will take a multi-disciplinary view of the execution and management of maintenance and refurbishment schemes. Covering both technology and management issues, it reviews the role of framework agreements, key performance indicators and other advancements in the procurement of maintenance activities, and deals with the increasingly important areas of carbon resilience and information management tools such as BIM and GIS. It evaluates concepts of sustainability and sustainable maintenance, as well as the growing retrofit market in the overall context of asset management and maintenance. Each chapter will be supported by seminar questions and formative assessment tasks to allow the learner to assess their own progress through the text.