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Challenges in Maintenance of Infrastructure Engineering

The document discusses challenges in maintaining infrastructure and engineering buildings. It outlines various types of building maintenance including planned, preventive, corrective, and proactive maintenance. It also discusses common defects that can occur due to design failures, construction failures, and material failures. Some key causes of defects include errors in design concepts, construction errors, lack of maintenance, and material deficiencies. The document emphasizes the importance of maintenance planning and inspections to identify issues and prevent large-scale repairs.

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Challenges in Maintenance of Infrastructure Engineering

The document discusses challenges in maintaining infrastructure and engineering buildings. It outlines various types of building maintenance including planned, preventive, corrective, and proactive maintenance. It also discusses common defects that can occur due to design failures, construction failures, and material failures. Some key causes of defects include errors in design concepts, construction errors, lack of maintenance, and material deficiencies. The document emphasizes the importance of maintenance planning and inspections to identify issues and prevent large-scale repairs.

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CHALLENGES IN

MAINTENANCE OF
INFRASTRUCTURE
ENGINEERING
Building Maintenance Planning
 Brief Discussion on importance of Maintenance
Planning
 Brief Discussion on Building Defects and
Maintenance effects
 Role of Engineers
Maintenance Factors and Defects
 Maintenance factor during design stage
 Defects due to Design ,Construction and Material
Failure.
BUILDING MAINTENANCE
It is the combination of technical and
administrative actions to ensure the items and
elements of a Building in an acceptable
standards and required performance.
OBJECTIVE
 Prevent the process of decay and degradation.
 Maintain structural stability and safety.
 Prevent unnecessary damage from the weather or from
general usage.
 Optimise performance.
 Help inform plans for renovation, refurbishment,
retrofitting or new buildings.
 Determine the causes of defects and so help prevent
re-occurrence or repetition.
 Ensure continued compliance with statutory
requirements.
Types of maintenance

 Planned maintenance: Carried out on a regular basis, such as


servicing boilers.
 Preventive maintenance: Carried out in order to keep something in working
order or extend its life, such as replacing cracked roofing tiles before
inclement weather.
 Corrective maintenance: This involves repairing something that has broken,
such as a window or guttering.
 Front-line maintenance: This involves maintaining something while it is still in
use, such as repainting and decorating an occupied building.
 Proactive maintenance: Maintenance work that is undertaken to
avoid failures or to identify defects that could lead to failure.
 Reliability centred maintenance: A combination of maintenance strategies
used to ensure a physical asset continues to function correctly.
 Scheduled maintenance: Preventive maintenance carried out in accordance
with predetermined intervals, number of operations, hours run, and so on.
Benefits Of Building Maintenance

 Saves You Money.


 Keeps Your Real Assets Working At Its Best.
 Improves Safety.
 Keeps Your Property In Good Order.
 Prevents Large-Scale Repairs.
Maintenance Planning

“People cannot be more productive than the


system they work in allows them to be.
Maintenance Planning

 Define or verify existing work processes.


 Make sure all key functions such as planners, supervisors,
and operations coordinators have clear roles.
 Set clear priority rules and establish meaning and criteria
for existing codes.
 Improve work request usage and clarity.
 Check backlog management and clean up if needed.
 On-the-job planning enhancement for shutdowns (if
applicable).
 Shutdown/ Turnaround critique communication.
 On-The-Job planning enhancement for day-to-day work.
Maintenance Planning
 Job package creation.
 Staging areas.
 Enhance and practice planning and scheduling meetings
between operations and maintenance.
 Implement Key Performance indicators (KPI’s).
 Hand-on support for history documentation.
 Improvement of technical database (Bill Of Materials,
technical data, equipment identification, etc.)
 Improve integration with materials management
 Contractor management and integration of work
processes.
Periodic Inspection Survey
 All properties should be inspected at regular
intervals to identify any deterioration and required
maintenance work including cleaning.
 All records should be maintained for reference.
Maintenance Review
 Was it necessary or appropriate
 The timing and standard
 Time frame for the planned maintenance work
Preparing Budget
 Committed Expenditure
 Variable Expenditure
 Managed Expenditure
Preparing a Program
 Long-term Maintenance
 Annual Maintenance
Maintenance Factor in Design Stage
Common Faults by Engineers
Common Faults By Engineers
 Most designers claimed to have knowledge.
 Poor construction Quality & poor performance of
the building
 Lack of Communication between designer firms and
maintenance firms
 Neglecting the benefits of ease of maintenance.
Factors affecting during design stage

 Design to be executed as by Code of Practise


 Building performance Audit
 Ease of maintenance concept
 Reduce the number of design defects
 Consultation with the users
 Consultation with system manufactures
Building Maintenance Problems
Associated with Building Defects
 Defects Due to Design Failures
 Defects Due to Construction Failure
 Defects Due to Material Failure
Defects Due to Design Failures
 Defects with New Buildings:
 - Settlements
 Cracked
 Deteriorated Brick Wall
 Leaking Showers
 Dampness to a building
 Excessive sagging to a roof or ceiling
 Drainage and Sewerage blockage/backflow
Causes of errors in constructed facilities

 Fundamental errors in concept


 Site selection and site development errors
 Programming Deficiencies
 Design Errors
 Construction Errors
 Material Deficiencies
 Operatioal errors
1. Fundamental errors in concept
 The project may have been located in an unusual
environment where the prediction of environmental
effects was unreliable.
2. Site Selection and Site Development Errors
 Certain sites are more vulnerable than others to

failure.
3. Programming Deficiencies
 The project does not perform as expected
4. Design Errors
 Errors in design concept
 Lack of structural redundancy
 Failure to consider a load or a combination of loads
 Deficient connection details
 Calculation errors
 Misuse of computer softwares
 Detailing problems
 Inadequate specifications for materials
 Unclear communication of design indent
Defects due to Construction Failures
 Inability to construct a building structure in
accordance to drawings and specification,
prevailing standards and sound engineering
practice.

 Structural Failure:
 When the basic support system of a form has lost
integrity resulting in the ability of the form to
perform its original function
Causes of Structural failures
 Design errors
 Construction errors
 Excessive scour under pier
 Continued flooding
 Material defects
 Lack of Maintenance
 Overloads
 Impact accidents
 Landslides/Poor soil
 Disputed
Construction errors
 Improper Construction sequencing
 Inadequate temporary support
 Excessive construction load
 Premature removal of shoring or formwork
 Nonconformance to design indent
6.Material Deficiencies
 Manufacturing or fabrication defects may exist in
the most reliable structural materials.
 7. Operational errors
 A building, product or application can become
defective through age and lack of maintenance
 8. Others
 Act of God ( Fire/flood/strong wind/ EQ)
 Deterioration

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