What is this standard about?
It gives guidance and recommendations on costing the lifecycle of maintaining a building during its use.
Who is this standard for?
- Asset owners
- Facilities management teams
- Architects, engineers, surveyors
- Project managers
- Local authorities
- Financiers
Why should you use this standard?
It gives the most up to date specifications on undertaking lifecycle costing of maintenance, during the in-use phase of facilities or constructed assets. It covers buildings, systems, assemblies, components, tasks/actions, resources and materials.
The guidance covers maintenance planning during the in-use phases of a facility’s life cycle.
The standard also gives guidance and recommendations on the planning and prioritization, budget-setting, optimization, implementation and monitoring of life cycle programmes of maintain and/or renewal works.
The guidance includes asset surveys and employer’s maintenance management aspects of operation (as defined in BS ISO 15686-5) that are needed to plan and manage maintenance delivery including life cycle works.
BS 8544:2013 is aligned with industry cost planning data structures and methodology given in the RICS New Rules of Measurement (NRM).