Maintenance Architectural Building Evaluation Process: Higher Education Existing Buildings

Abstract

Facilities are a major part of college and universities. They play a role of great magnitude in sustaining the
quality of life for students, faculty, and staff. Every building aspect supports the lecture halls, dormitories, research
facilities and work areas. Higher education existing buildings require a capital throughout its life cycle process to be
able to provide with a good quality building or facility to the users. Higher education existing buildings are increasingly
deteriorating due to constrained budgets, but more specifically the accumulation of deferred maintenance. The
performance of the building aspect is directly influenced by the way the project is developed, designed, constructed and
strategically planned. Therefore, it is strictly important to take action to plan and design better facilities. The purpose of
this paper is to present the preliminary results of a research that will focus on the knowledge discovery from deferred
maintenance.