International Journal of Building Pathology and Adaptation: Volume 37 Issue 1

Sustainable development, adaptation and maintenance of infrastructure

Alex Opoku

Factors affecting maintenance management in hospital buildings: Perceptions from the public and private sector

Dana Jandali, Rateb Sweis

The purpose of this paper is to identify and assess the factors affecting maintenance management performance in public and private hospitals in Amman-Jordan.

Modified sewer asset management to accommodate London’s future sustainable development

Oluwagbenga Tade, Siobhan O’Neill, Kenneth G. Smith, Tracey Williams, Amer Ali, Ali Bayyati, Hwee See

This paper is about best practice in managing legacy drainage assets to support sustainable urban regeneration. The purpose of this paper is to describe best practice sewer asset…

Actions, attitudes and beliefs of occupants in managing dampness in buildings

Karen Blay, Kofi Agyekum, Alex Opoku

Dampness in buildings affects the health of occupants, structural stability and energy efficiency of buildings. Solutions to managing dampness focus on promoting the use of…

Adaptive reuse of historical buildings: Service quality measurement of Kuala Lumpur museums

Zuraini Md Ali, Rodiah Zawawi, Nik Elyna Myeda, Nabila Mohamad

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the impacts that the adaptive reuse of historical building has on museum service quality by analysing the visitors’ expectations and…

Delay factors of the schedule of strategic industrial projects

Rateb Sweis, Alireza Moarefi, Seyyed-Mahmoud Hoseini-Amiri, Soad Moarefi

The purpose of this paper is to report the results of a survey undertaken to identify and rank factors that are responsible for delay in the schedule of strategic industrial…

Mechanisms for preventing rising damp in new building infrastructure

Kofi Agyekum, Karen Blay, Alex Opoku

Capillary rise of water in buildings has been an issue of concern among past and present researchers. Despite the research efforts devoted to the proper elimination of the problem…

A review of selected neighbourhood sustainability assessment frameworks using the Bellagio STAMP

Ayomikun Solomon Adewumi, Vincent Onyango, Dumiso Moyo, Husam AlWaer

The neighbourhood sustainability assessment frameworks through which a proposed neighbourhood development can be evaluated against an array of sustainability indicators began to…