Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia

An effective communication in building management depends on the quality, safety and service of its system between maintenance management and building occupants particularly on the operation and maintenance activities. The crucial issue in building management is to develop communication system betwe...

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Main Authors: Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan, Ibrahim, Md. Najib
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ontario International Development Agency 2012
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/26799/1/paper-2012-2.pdf
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description An effective communication in building management depends on the quality, safety and service of its system between maintenance management and building occupants particularly on the operation and maintenance activities. The crucial issue in building management is to develop communication system between maintenance management and building occupants in order to support value aspect in the building. Study on communication in the maintenance management has generally concentrated on the briefing process and the maintenance process. This research identified three attributes of the existing condition of communication system in maintenance management specifically safety practice, management quality and professionalism in operation and maintenance management. Eleven high rise office buildings in Klang Valley, Malaysia have been randomly selected for the study which involving two groups of respondents. In-house maintenance management personnel (MM) and outsourced contractors/consultants (OS) are in maintenance management group whereas building owners (BO) and tenants (T) as the building occupant group have been unstructured interviewed based on the value aspects of communication factors. The results had shown that unsafe practice, inadequate management and unprofessional maintenance management which effected from miscommunication among them in the whole level tasks. In addition, major issues of maintenance management tools: unavailable building policy, poor management of documents, also weak monitoring toward maintenance activities contributed to the insufficient communication system in maintenance management. The paper concludes that a systematic communication system between maintenance management group and building occupant group does not exist yet in high rise office buildings.
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spelling oai:generic.eprints.org:267992012-11-21T00:19:10Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/26799/ Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan Ibrahim, Md. Najib NA4100 Special classes of buildings An effective communication in building management depends on the quality, safety and service of its system between maintenance management and building occupants particularly on the operation and maintenance activities. The crucial issue in building management is to develop communication system between maintenance management and building occupants in order to support value aspect in the building. Study on communication in the maintenance management has generally concentrated on the briefing process and the maintenance process. This research identified three attributes of the existing condition of communication system in maintenance management specifically safety practice, management quality and professionalism in operation and maintenance management. Eleven high rise office buildings in Klang Valley, Malaysia have been randomly selected for the study which involving two groups of respondents. In-house maintenance management personnel (MM) and outsourced contractors/consultants (OS) are in maintenance management group whereas building owners (BO) and tenants (T) as the building occupant group have been unstructured interviewed based on the value aspects of communication factors. The results had shown that unsafe practice, inadequate management and unprofessional maintenance management which effected from miscommunication among them in the whole level tasks. In addition, major issues of maintenance management tools: unavailable building policy, poor management of documents, also weak monitoring toward maintenance activities contributed to the insufficient communication system in maintenance management. The paper concludes that a systematic communication system between maintenance management group and building occupant group does not exist yet in high rise office buildings. Ontario International Development Agency 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/26799/1/paper-2012-2.pdf Yahya, Mohamad Ridzuan and Ibrahim, Md. Najib (2012) Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia. OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, 4 (6). pp. 77-84. ISSN 1923-6662 (O), 1923-6654 (P) http://www.ssrn.com/link/OIDA-Intl-Journal-Sustainable-Dev.html
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title Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_full Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_fullStr Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_short Effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management: a study in high rise office building, Klang Valley, Malaysia
title_sort effective communication system between building occupants and maintenance management a study in high rise office building klang valley malaysia
topic NA4100 Special classes of buildings
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