This research aims to develop a model of decision-making for the selection of the most
appropriate strategy of the maintenance methods of equipments. A model has been developed in
order to determine the maintenance plan that causes the lowest cost,
whether the cost of
repairing or losses result from interruptions of work for maintenance.
School buildings in Syria suffer of the high cost of maintenance works. In addition,
there is no fear methodology to organize the maintenance process and evaluate the
performance of these buildings.
This research aims to develop a system for evalu
ating the performance of school
buildings in the city of Tartous, in order to be used in the maintenance policy for these
buildings and other buildings in other regions.
The evaluating process is executed by calculating a performance indicator, which
defines the state of the building depending on three sub-indicators: functional, technical
and healthiness indicator.
Maintenance manual and evaluating lists were developed to evaluate the components
of school building. In addition, many questionnaires were set to determine the relative
importance for each component of school building.
The improved model was used to calculate the performance indicators for several
schools. As a result, most of these schools were in a moderate situation. Also, the results
clarify that some components have law state comparing to other ones and we should focus
on them in organized maintenance processes.
