Defects Diagnosis of Fire Protection System for Better Maintenance
Fire in buildings not only costs up to 2％ of GDP each year for developed countries, but it claims lives. Unlike other building systems and services, fire protection system operates only during emergency and otherwise remains dormant and even sometimes overlooked. As there is no user complaint to warn the facility manager and any defect may turn out to be disastrous during a fire, maintenance of fire protection system demands a more systematic approach in terms of defect diagnosis. Studies show that among many reasons of fire hazards, a number of them can be avoided by addressing maintainability aspect and this paper concentrates upon those issues. Fourteen commercial buildings of Singapore were studied along a thorough literature review to identify common problems in fire protection systems. In spite of stringent codes and laws, about 35 different types of defects were observed associated with various components of fire protection system and 34 experienced facility managers rated 16 defects as critical in terms of frequency or adverse effect on system performance, economy and health-safety-comfort. Though the reasons can be classified as design, construction, maintenance and external factors, it was found that poor maintenance is the most common reason. This paper highlights the mistakes in maintenance practices causing prevalent defects and as a result indicates towards the best management strategy for building’s fire protection system.
commercial building defect facilities management fire protection system maintenance
M. Y. L.CHEW Sutapa DAS
Department of Building, National University of Singapore,Singapore 117566 Department of Architecture & Regional Planning Department of Infrastructure, Indian Institute of Tec
国际会议
2011 International Conference on Construction & Real Estate Management(2011建设与房地产管理国际会议)
广州
英文
283-286
2011-11-19（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）