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The impacts of sustainable development policy on facility maintenance management
(2023-08) Matthews , Audrey (Audrey Alice); Lieberknecht, Katherine E.; Paterson, Robert G.
This paper discusses how maintenance at a municipal level is impacted by public mandates, policies and initiatives that address climate change mitigation or adaptation. First the paper discusses how climate change will impact communities and a municipal response to the regional internal climate issues it will cause, and some of the solutions governments have undertaken to alleviate or mitigate those impacts. It looks at Austin, Texas, as a case study to understand and analyze the effects that the municipal climate change related policies have on the ability of maintenance management to achieve their goals. Because maintenance is extremely important for sustainable building goals, this thesis looks to understand that connection. Through the results the paper found that most of the success for sustainable building policy comes from the city staff working to connect ideas and people to achieve sustainable goals that they find important and ordinances from the city requiring city-owned properties to create sustainable building. However, new technologies without seeing the whole project maintenance, a continuing and common lack of communication and involvement of maintenance stakeholders in the design and implementation stage, and budgeting that requires catastrophic emergency systems to be most important hold back sustainable policies and initiatives from being as compatible with facility maintenance management than it could be.