Abstract
Building condition assessment is growing and become more important in the context of the built environment and Asset Management in Malaysia. This paper presents the method and the use of a standard guidelines for Building Condition Assessment (BCA) as a tool to evaluate the physical condition of the building. The purpose of this paper is to understand the use of BCA in assessing building condition. The methodology was based on literature review, review contents from archive document of Public Work Department (PWD) Malaysia which is involved study on the existing methods, proposal, discussion, piloting, improvement, approval and analysis of data. A case study involved of 15 buildings with various function such as office, health clinic, quarters and learning institution involved by more than 300 numbers of building inspectors or assessors. The findings shows that the using of the standard for condition assessment, the building inspectors or assessors can provide the data and condition rating to the buildings according to the standard. The results then used to examine a level consistency of BCA in data collection and it will easily assessed and understood, and the appropriateness of BCA to different types of buildings.
Highlights
In year 2008, Public work Department of Malaysia have developed, expanded and implemented the Asset Management concept to the organization to improve the government service delivery
Integrated and comprehensive Asset Management is to ensure that the asset are in a good condition, secure, economical, and longer life cycle as well as to provide quality services to the people [1]
The execution of the Building Condition Assessment (BCA) involved the total numbers of 15 types of building with various scale of categories of buildings
Summary
Integrated and comprehensive Asset Management is to ensure that the asset are in a good condition, secure, economical, and longer life cycle as well as to provide quality services to the people [1]. According to [2], the traditional view of asset management as the function of building and maintaining buildings has been broadened to include outcomes to stakeholder requirements using tools such as asset registers, monitoring the asset condition and use, prediction of deterioration, asset valuation, life cycle economic and others. Building condition is very important to supports decision making and it is critical to the management in achieving the service standards for maintenance. Inefficiencies of the system of building maintenance work can give rise to defects and damage to the building. All building components have to contend with performance loss through ageing, use and external causes [8]
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