Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering: Volume 8 Issue 2

Factors affecting housing maintenance cost

Mohamed A. El‐Haram, Malcolm W. Horner

One of the findings of the research looking at the application of integrated logistics support (ILS) to the existing building stock carried out by the authors was that many…

The role of the facility manager in new procurement routes

Mohamed A. El‐Haram, Andrew Agapiou

The private finance initiative (PFI) is a means of using private finance and skills to deliver capital investment projects traditionally provided by the public sector…

Practical application of RCM to local authority housing: a pilot study

Mohamed A. El‐Haram, Malcolm W. Horner

This paper presents part of an EPSRC research project carried out by the Construction Management Research Unit at Dundee University. The objective of the research was to apply…

Development of a generic framework for collecting whole life cost data for the building industry

Mohamed A. El‐Haram, Sasa Marenjak, Malcolm W. Horner

Whole life costing analysis is becoming much more important as long‐term building owners and clients start to demand evidence of what their costs of ownership will be. It is also…

Determining maintenance requirements of a water distribution network using whole life costing

M. Engelhardt, P. Skipworth, D.A. Savic, A. Cashman, G.A. Walters, A.J. Saul

A whole life costing (WLC) methodology has been developed for determining long term maintenance expenditure requirements for water distribution networks. The methodology utilises…