Planning the maintenance of green building materials for sustainable development: a building information modelling approach
Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction
ISSN: 1366-4387
Article publication date: 1 December 2020
Issue publication date: 30 April 2021
Abstract
Purpose
Most green building (GB) materials, which are used widely in the construction sector in Malaysia, perform poorly in terms of energy efficiency and sustainability. Nevertheless, during maintenance planning of these materials, the focus is often directed towards comfort and design instead. However, as GB material construction projects grow in scale and complexity, interconnections between the activities and processes can be noticed during problematic planning performance management to monitor the GB material components for corrective and preventive maintenance actions.
Design/methodology/approach
The concept of GB material maintenance planning for sustainable development and the main features of information and communication technology tools and techniques are based on analysis of literature reviews of GB material scenarios.
Findings
The results show how decision-making support in maintenance planning can be unsuccessful and how planning decisions can frame the content of an integrated system to analyse information and reduce risks of GB material failure.
Originality/value
The paper concludes that implementing a research framework for developing such a system can help improve the sustainable performance of maintenance planning of GB material economic, social and environmental issues.
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Acknowledgements
The author would like to acknowledge the support from the Fundamental Research Grant Scheme (FRGS) under a grant number of FRGS/1/2020/SS02/UNIMAP/02/1 from the Ministry of Higher Education Malaysia.
Citation
Ismail, Z.-A. (2021), "Planning the maintenance of green building materials for sustainable development: a building information modelling approach", Journal of Financial Management of Property and Construction, Vol. 26 No. 1, pp. 141-157. https://doi.org/10.1108/JFMPC-07-2020-0047
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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