Benchmarks for quality buildings

(World Scientific) The lack of maintainability considerations during the design and construction stages lead to building defects which accounts to billions of dollars expenditures throughout the building's lifecycle. Can we really reduce the cost of maintaining a building? Michael Yit Lin Chew, Ashan Asmone and Sheila Conejos believe so.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news