Improving the maintainability of buildings in Singapore

Building and Environment

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 1243-1251

  de Silva, Nayanthara ^a   Dulaimi, Mohammed F ^a   Ling, Florence Y Y ^a   Ofori, George ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Construction development; Design management; Maintainability; Singapore; World class

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; BUILDINGS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FINANCE; MAINTAINABILITY;

FINANCIAL LOSSES; RELUCTANCE;

CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

BUILDING; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY;

EID: 2642548833     PISSN: 03601323     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.buildenv.2004.02.011     Document Type: Article

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