
Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets
36 hours Face to Face + blended
One Semester or equivalent
Hawthorn
Available to incoming Study Abroad and Exchange students
Overview
This unit aims to develop students understanding and specialised knowledge of maintenance management in construction and manufacturing industries with a focus on maintaining buildings, engineering assets and infrastructure facilities.
Requisites
Teaching Periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
26-February-2024
26-May-2024
26-May-2024
Last self-enrolment date
10-March-2024
Census date
31-March-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
12-April-2024
Results released date
02-July-2024
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Learning outcomes
Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:
- Associate reliability principles and risk assessments to appraise life cycle of different types engineering assets (K5, K6, S4, A1, A4, A5, A6)
- Apply reliability-based maintenance and plant reliability engineering methods for sustainable performance in asset/facility life cycle (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
- Interpret and apply the concept of asset criticality (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
- Identify and classify Faults and Failures of engineering assets and components (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
- Employ FMEA, FMECA, RCM, FTA and RPN analysis for maintenance management of engineering assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
- Appreciate building maintenance requirements and apply relevant methods, materials, equipment and procedures for built facilities/ assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
- Develop and/ or apply maintenance analysis, maintenance programmes, performance measurements, reports, documentation and records(K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7)
Teaching methods
Hawthorn
Type | Hours per week | Number of weeks | Total (number of hours) |
---|---|---|---|
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Lecture | 2.00 | 12 weeks | 24 |
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out) Tutorial | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Online Contact (Phasing out) Synchronous Tutorials | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Online Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning | 1.00 | 12 weeks | 12 |
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out) Independent Learning | 7.50 | 12 weeks | 90 |
TOTAL | 150 |
Assessment
Type | Task | Weighting | ULO's |
---|---|---|---|
Class Exercise Portfolio | Individual | 20 - 30% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Project | Individual/Group | 30 - 60% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Test | Individual | 20 - 50% | 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 |
Content
This unit has following 3 components:
Component 1: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 1
- Assets, asset Management, life cycle of assets
- Reliability of assets as the key principle of performance, quality, safety and sustainability.
- Asset performance reliability
- Asset maintenance management, definition, function, place in the organisation.
- Maintenance as capability assurance function
- Maintenance management reporting and measurements (KPA, KPI)
- Maintenance philosophy, strategy, objectives, programmes and planning
- Maintenance root cause analysis (FMECA, MTTM, MTBF, CMMS)
- Quality and risk mitigation framework in maintenance management
Component 2: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 2
- Plant reliability as a component of co-quality system
- RCM - reliability centred maintenance
- Reliability based engineering, reliability modelling
- Assessment of assets risks, safety and reliability. application of FMEA, FMECA, RPN, block diagrams and FTA.
- Types of maintenance
- Maintenance of plant and equipment
Component 3: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets – Part 3
- Introduction to building maintenanceÂ
- Materials, equipment and systems for building maintenance
- Permissions/ approvals for maintenance works
- Maintenance contracts and documentation
- Development and optimisation of maintenance programs
- Organisation of maintenance.
- Sustainability focus in maintenanceÂ
Study resources
Reading materials
A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.