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Planned Preventive Maintenance Activities: Analysis of Guidance Documents

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Nowadays the management of public built assets gains a significant importance owing to their size, social relevance and the corresponding working, operational and maintenance costs. Since it is economically relevant to the total cost of a building, the activity of maintenance management cannot be done in an improvised and casual way. In this document some of the reasons for the increased interest and development of several researches works in the area of building maintenance in Portugal are presented. Documents that provide guidance to the planned preventive maintenance activities are analysed in a general way and four of them in detail. The information contained in these four documents was applied to the study of planned activities for some current components existing in primary school buildings, in Lisbon. The analysis revealed that these documents do not address all the construction elements, systems and equipments and exterior spaces equally. These discrepancies between documents can raise difficulties in carrying out benchmarking actions for LCC or LCA assessment purposes. It is important to continue the work under development to standardize this information and create national, European or international references databases.

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Raposo, S., de Brito, J., Fonseca, M. (2013). Planned Preventive Maintenance Activities: Analysis of Guidance Documents. In: de Freitas, V., Delgado, J. (eds) Durability of Building Materials and Components. Building Pathology and Rehabilitation, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37475-3_2

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