Maintenance of external building fagade (comparison between rope access and gondola usage) / Eres Effendy Hashim

All things need a care and maintenance including our buildings. A building without care and maintenance will increase an operational and maintenance cost. A building maintenance will control a building cost for a long period, to prolong the building life and to make sure all the systems and building operational will be in a good conditions. A building maintenance industry is quite new in Malaysia. The benefits of maintenance are becoming ever more widely accepted for our construction and engineering sectors. It had been privatise by a government to a specialist in maintenance. Building maintenance helps building owner a lot. It is better to do maintenance than repair it. When maintaining a building, maintenance concept, instruction and type of repair works shall be describe clearly before a maintenance works is conducted. These factors will help to increase quality of maintenance works and the building will maintained well.