Life Cycle Cost and Maintenance Management for Large Hospital Buildings in Taiwan
Large hospitals such as medical centers provide not only medical services, but also carry the responsibilities for emergency refuges, medical researches and education. The function of large hospitals is as important as other infrastructure systems such as highways, bridges, and utilities.When disasters occur, the hospitals have to provide emergency medical services for victims and support the patients needs of health. In order to keep a smooth operation of hospitals, the maintenance management of hospital buildings should be carefully investigated. However, there are few researches studied the large hospitals in Taiwan and focused on maintenance management issues of hospital buildings.This paper investigated the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and established a life cycle cost database for maintenance management. The data were collected from the NTUH which consisted of 10,457 maintenance records in the past ten years. This paper analyzed these data to obtain various characteristics of maintenance records, and revealed the key items of life cycle cost for large hospital buildings, which can provide the facility manager of hospital buildings to execute a proper maintenance policy for hospital buildings.Two major conclusions are drawn in this study. First, for the start up phase for a new hospital building, it may take 5 years to stable the annual maintenance cost due to the adjustments between the hospital users, space requirements and equipments. Second, for new hospital buildings, the major items for maintenance cost include mechanical equipments, building repair, and electric facilities. On the other hand, for old hospital buildings, interior finishes consume about half of the maintenance cost,while mechanical equipments and electric facilities consist of the other half of the maintenance cost.
Hospital building Life cycle cost Maintenance management
Guo, Sy-Jye Lo,Tzu-Ping Chang, Tzu-Ying
Dept. of Civil Engr., National Taiwan University Taipei, Taiwan
国际会议
上海
英文
355-363
2007-05-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）