Saturday, 7 December 2013

Facilities Management

Before I took this elective subject, I was seldom thought about what is going to happen after a new building has been completed. From here I learnt that the building will be maintained and administrated by a Facilities Manager after the constructions of the building are completed. 

Other than that, the building's design performance and its building services are fairly important to a facilities managers. He has to know or foresee what problems and issues will be arise if the building services system are designed in this way. For example, it is not suitable to install gypsum board ceiling externally in a rise building, it is because it is very impractically and it will cost a lot to set up temporary scaffolding for carrying out the maintenance. 

From this subject's group assignment, we get to know that there are different types of building available in our surrounding area. Not only we learn the type of building which chose as case study, we also study what are their management system whether it is Management Community, Joint Management Board, or the Developer himself.

We also gets to see and study an actual swimming pool system in Suriamas Condominium, the technicians explained to us how is such system being operated and maintained. The equipments of the swimming pool system basically are sand filters, balancing tanks, water pumps, chemical tanks and its piping to designated area to equipments.


 Sand Filters


The swimming pool area.


The swimming pool and spa pump sets.


Conclusion, this elective subject has inspired me to look into building from different perspectives. Like how are the occupants of the building will be affected, or how the administration team going to solve the problems and etc.

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