Building Operations & an Almost Self–Operating University

Abstract

This paper combines two reports: the first on the building of the Architectural Faculty at the Technical University in Berlin, and the second, on the HafenCity University in Hamburg. An account of the interrelations between a building’s maintenance by caretakers then with a Facility’s Management system and the usage of the buildings; including the effects of these interdependence on teaching and studying, offers a critique of the way in way which a neoliberal audit culture has affect building operations.