Methods to much improve maintenance.

K C Lam

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Methods to much improve maintenance.

K C Lam

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The benefits to be gained from the application of both value engineering (VE) and quality systems--e.g. quality assurance (QA), and total quality management (TQM)--to the management of building services maintenance have yet to be realised by the building services industry. These concepts are particularly applicable to complex hospital engineering services.

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K C Lam. 2004. Methods to much improve maintenance.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15575550/

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