Question 1

Project managers usually arrange for the facility management team to take over completed buildings immediately after a Temporary Occupation Permit is obtained from the Authority. Often time building defects are sighted during the take-over joint inspection between the main contractor and the facility management team.

Your facility management company has been engaged to conduct a thorough building condition assessment of a newly completed building. You are required to prepare the building condition survey report, highlighting at least FIVE (5) most common building defects sighted during the condition assessment exercise.Your report should include a desktop study to examine and discuss the possible cause(s) of the defects; and design and recommend possibleremedial solutions for the building owner to follow up with the main contractor.

You may adopt any of the following Codes of Condition of Assessments:

(a) Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS) 2022;
(b) The Dutch Standards for Assessment of Buildings’ Condition (NEN2767);
(c) United Kingdom Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS); or
(d) Portuguese Method for Building Condition Assessment.

For this assignment, you may assess the building at your workplace or any building that you are currently managing, e.g. medical center, hospital, retail mall, office tower, school, data centre or residential building.

Your report should be presented in the following format:
1. Objective of Report
2. Building Brief/Information
3. Condition Assessment
4. Desktop Study
5. Conclusion and Recommendations