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Keywords: hospital building, life cycle cost, maintenance management.

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Large hospitals such as medical centers provide not only medical services, but also carry the responsibilities for emergency refuges, medical research and education. The function of large hospitals is as important as other infrastructure systems such as highways, bridges, and utilities. When disasters occur, the hospitals have to provide emergency medical services for victims and support the patients' needs. In order to keep a smooth operation of hospitals, the maintenance management of hospital buildings should be carefully investigated. However, there is little research on large hospitals in Taiwan and most is focused on maintenance management issues of hospital buildings.

This paper investigates the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and establishes a maintenance cost database. The NTUH is the best-known and most highly-renowned medical center in Taiwan in which more than 4,000 employees serving approximately 2,000 in-patients and 7,000 out-patients daily. The data were collected from the NTUH which consists of 16,228 maintenance records in the past nine years. This paper analyzes the data to obtain various characteristics of maintenance records, and revealed the key items of the maintenance cost for large hospital buildings, which enables the facility manager of the hospital buildings to execute a proper maintenance policy for the hospital buildings.

Two major conclusions are drawn from this study. First, the age difference will demonstrate the repair and demand change. The periodic inspections are similar and conform to the characteristics of a hospital. Second, the hospital should separate the periodic and non-periodic items (including repair and demand change) to monitor the cost distribution and observe the key maintenance items. Controlling the majority disbursement of the key items ensures that the whole maintenance and repair is cost efficiently managed.

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Front Page Browse CCP CSETS CTR IJRT Other Authors Search Purchase Guide FAQ Contact us	Civil-Comp Proceedings ISSN 1759-3433 CCP: 89 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY Edited by: M. Papadrakakis and B.H.V. Topping Paper 33 Analysis of Maintenance Cost for Large Hospital Buildings in Taiwan S.J. Guo and T.P. Lo Department of Civil Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan doi:10.4203/ccp.89.33 purchase the full-text of this paper Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper S.J. Guo, T.P. Lo, "Analysis of Maintenance Cost for Large Hospital Buildings in Taiwan", in M. Papadrakakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 33, 2008. doi:10.4203/ccp.89.33 Keywords: hospital building, life cycle cost, maintenance management. Summary Large hospitals such as medical centers provide not only medical services, but also carry the responsibilities for emergency refuges, medical research and education. The function of large hospitals is as important as other infrastructure systems such as highways, bridges, and utilities. When disasters occur, the hospitals have to provide emergency medical services for victims and support the patients' needs. In order to keep a smooth operation of hospitals, the maintenance management of hospital buildings should be carefully investigated. However, there is little research on large hospitals in Taiwan and most is focused on maintenance management issues of hospital buildings. This paper investigates the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) and establishes a maintenance cost database. The NTUH is the best-known and most highly-renowned medical center in Taiwan in which more than 4,000 employees serving approximately 2,000 in-patients and 7,000 out-patients daily. The data were collected from the NTUH which consists of 16,228 maintenance records in the past nine years. This paper analyzes the data to obtain various characteristics of maintenance records, and revealed the key items of the maintenance cost for large hospital buildings, which enables the facility manager of the hospital buildings to execute a proper maintenance policy for the hospital buildings. Two major conclusions are drawn from this study. First, the age difference will demonstrate the repair and demand change. The periodic inspections are similar and conform to the characteristics of a hospital. Second, the hospital should separate the periodic and non-periodic items (including repair and demand change) to monitor the cost distribution and observe the key maintenance items. Controlling the majority disbursement of the key items ensures that the whole maintenance and repair is cost efficiently managed. purchase the full-text of this paper (price £20) go to the previous paper go to the next paper return to the table of contents return to the book description purchase this book (price £95 +P&P)
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