CFaR Report: Maintenance Decision Criteria in Facility Management

A newly published CFaR report examines the role of building maintenance in the realm of facilities management responsibilities.

Building maintenance plays a critical role in ensuring that buildings perform according to required standards and minimizing the risk of equipment and system failures. Maintenance and repair activities account for 79 percent of total FM responsibilities within FM organizations. Moreover, average maintenance costs increased by 72 percent between 2007 and 2017.

Building maintenance decisions have significant importance on the effective work of building systems, components, and equipment simultaneously. Given the complexity of maintenance processes, which involve numerous factors and complicate decision-making, there is a growing need for a mechanism that can help navigate these challenging scenarios. Multi-criteria decision-making (MCDM), a branch of operations research, led to the development of various methods to solve complex issues with conflicting criteria under different circumstances and fields of application.

Principal Investigator:
Deniz Besiktepe, Ph.D., FMP, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute
with co-authors Mehmet E. Ozbek, Ph.D. and Rebecca Atadero, Ph.D., both of Colorado State University