Towards an autonomous management maintenance model applied to a heritage building: the case of Hernando Colón College, Universidad de Sevilla, Spain

Abstract

Maintenance in buildings is crucial to assure a proper use during their lifespan. However, both unqualified managers and a lack of commitment to develop a maintenance management plan is a challenge to establish Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and European Foundation for Quality Management (EFQM) models. Moreover, if a building comprises heritage special requirements, specific actions must be considered. In this context, this research proposes a maintenance methodology by unqualified managers to facilitate decision-making for qualified agents. For this purpose, process management provides the bases for an autonomous management maintenance model characterisation and its application to historic buildings. Hernando Colón College (CMHC by its abbreviation in Spanish) of the University of Seville is a superb example of a heritage building with maintenance data and track record in process management approach, which supposes a starting point to apply the proposed methodology. The model has been implemented in the CMHC since 2015. The results showed that the maintenance optimisation reduced the number of corrective maintenance actions by 13% in comparison with the preventive actions. The results also indicated that the total maintenance actions were reduced by 37%. This study demonstrates, by collecting data based on quantitative measures, that it is possible to apply an autonomous maintenance management model in a historic building in use. © 2021 WIT Press