| Article ID: | iaor19962088 |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Volume: | 32 |
| Issue: | 7/8 |
| Start Page Number: | 105 |
| End Page Number: | 109 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 1996 |
| Journal: | Mathematics Today |
| Authors: | Miller L.M. |
| Keywords: | maintenance, repair & replacement |
The costs associated with the maintenance of building services installations are difficult to predict due to the corrective element. Estimates of anticipated expenditures are required, however, for budgetary and other purposes, and a method is developed in this paper which attempts to rationalise a procedure for forecasting the costs involved.