IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/conmgt/v22y2004i1p25-34.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Integrated maintenance management of hospital buildings: a case study

Author

Listed:
  • Sarel Lavy
  • Igal Shohet

Abstract

Over the course of the past three decades, facilities management has become the subject of an increasing number of research and development efforts. The main objective of the present research was to examine the efficiency of maintenance under alternative maintenance policies and different sources of human resources. The research focused on the maintenance of public hospital buildings in Israel, with the objective of providing a model for multi-system facilities operating in a dynamic environment. This paper describes the last three stages of the research: the establishment of key performance indicators, the implementation of these indicators in a case study in order to appraise them, and the validation of the indicators. Four key performance indicators were developed, as follows: the Building Performance Indicator (BPI), the Manpower Sources Diagram (MSD), the Maintenance Efficiency Indicator (MEI) and the Managerial Span of Control (MSC). This paper illustrates a case study in which the four developed indicators were implemented in practice. Characteristics of the case study hospital are presented and analysed. Finally, the conclusions and recommendations drawn from the analysis of the hospital case study are discussed, validated and deliberated upon. The approach presented in this paper integrates performance, financial, human resources and organizational aspects to facilitate an improved evaluation method of the parameters affecting the execution of maintenance activities.

Suggested Citation

  • Sarel Lavy & Igal Shohet, 2004. "Integrated maintenance management of hospital buildings: a case study," Construction Management and Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 22(1), pages 25-34.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:22:y:2004:i:1:p:25-34
    DOI: 10.1080/0144619042000186031
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0144619042000186031
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/0144619042000186031?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Chro Hama Radha, 2023. "Retrofitting for Improving Indoor Air Quality and Energy Efficiency in the Hospital Building," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-20, February.
    2. Wai Fang Wong & AbdulLateef Olanrewaju & Poh Im Lim, 2021. "Value-Based Building Maintenance Practices for Public Hospitals in Malaysia," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(11), pages 1-16, May.
    3. Wai Fang Wong & AbdulLateef Olanrewaju & Poh Im Lim, 2021. "Importance and Performance of Value-Based Maintenance Practices in Hospital Buildings," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(21), pages 1-13, October.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:conmgt:v:22:y:2004:i:1:p:25-34. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/RCME20 .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.