The sustainability of a building can be ensured through effective maintenance. Effective
defect management, which is essential for maintaining the performance and longevity of …

Zero‐shot learning, applied with vision‐language pretrained (VLP) models, is expected to
be an alternative to existing deep learning models for defect detection, under insufficient …

Purpose Although the handover stage is the key transition stage between the construction
and operation, there is no critical overview of issues and research at the handover stage …

The aim of the article is to present the results of preliminary research of the defects in
residential buildings occurring during the warranty period. Due to the small amount of data …

This study investigated defect risks in residential buildings using the Loss Distribution
Approach (LDA), a method of identifying and quantifying operational risks in economic …

Across the major cities in Australia, there has been a remarkable increase in population that
has yielded a significant boom in the building construction sector. Despite the rigorous …

Purpose The largest share of a building maintenance budget goes towards preventing or
repairing building defects. Also, building defects shorten a building's lifetime, impact the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present defects reported by cooperative owners,
and to determine the relationship between building characteristics, developer's/contractor's …

Purpose The successive Malaysian government aims to provide housing to households
earning the median income and below. However, there has been continuous criticism and …

Purpose Hospital building maintenance management constitutes a pertinent issue of global
concern for all healthcare stakeholders. In Malaysia, the maintenance management of …