1. Introduction
1.1. Background And Purpose
Building maintenance should be approached from various aspects (technical, economic and social). In technical aspect, repair, material, structural method, and so on should be considered to maintain the physical performance and functions of a building. In economic aspect, the cost required for building maintenance should be optimum and thus a strategy for building maintenance should be designed to fulfill the best environment with the optimum cost. In social aspect, building maintenance should be implemented so as to improve building environment agreeable with surrounding environment.
Apartment housing is a residential form of multiple households living together in a building. Therefore, it is common that the opinions of a community is more reflected on improving or changing building function and performance, rather than individual opinions. In particular, individual houses have to share repair cost for building maintenance in economic aspect. On the other hand, repair cost should be decided compared with that of other apartment housing complexes or considering construction type.
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By type, repair works can be applied to various areas of a building from its external space to the top. Therefore, repair cost should be well distributed according to the characteristics of construction such as location, scope, and technical and physical requirements. In general, repair cost has a bell-typed distribution. However, the distribution shape of repair cost can be different depending on the types and characteristics of construction and so can be statistical functions.
In the present paper, repair cost distribution is presented by construction type. Understanding the right and left of the distribution graph from average repair cost, which is a reference point, can provide basic data in deciding on whether repair cost is excessive or not sufficient. Furthermore, it can be an yardstick of the level of cost required when repair is planned.
1.2. Method And Scope
In apartment housing, many different households live in one complex, equally taking responsibility for managing common facilities. To facilitate managing it, residents organized such consultative bodies as tenant representatives' meeting and management center (office) and do several activities such as decision making and preparation for repair cost. In this case, the size of repair cost is determined and the cost is charged to individual households, depending on the
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