Evaluating Real Costs for Building Maintenance （评估实际建筑维护的成本）.pdfVIP

1 Evaluating Real Costs for Building Maintenance Management By Joel Levitt If I have a building that has a replacement cost of $20 million, is it fair to say that I can predict some percentage of that as maintenance cost for that building based on my knowledge of its attributes? If I know, for instance, the usage, the construction, the design, and the part of the country, can I evaluate how much it should cost to maintain that building? Actually, there are ratios that can be multiplied times the value of the building to come up with projected maintenance costs. The maintenance ratio will vary based on the following factors affecting the building: age, service or use (severe or light), and where it’s located. Hiring a tradesperson in Tuscaloosa would cost a lot less than hiring that same person in New York City. Where you are in the country will have a major impact on maintenance costs. Special Equipment With complicated electronic equipment, there is about a 10% cost for a service contract. Service companies can service at that rate and still make a profit. That should be the upper limit of the special equipment maintenance ratio. Construction Allotment How much installation and construction work does your department do? If your department does a lot of changing around of the building, putting in offices, taking down offices, installing new equipment, running new utilities, building on minor additions – that has to be added into your budget because it’s not maintenance work. It can become very difficult to manage when such work is just given as part of the maintenance responsibility. Note