FACILITIES MAINTENANCE

SUPPORT, BUILDING TESTING

AND COMMISSIONING,
BUILDING ENVIRONMENT
CERTIFICATION , FORENSIC
ARCHITECTURE
FACILITIES
MAINTENANCE
SUPPORT
 The consulting architect in this area of
practice provides the owner/client with
means and measures to ensure the
proper function and maintenance of the
building/ structure and site after final
inspection.
BUILDING TESTING AND
COMMISSIONING
 The Architects in this area of practice
recommends the systematic process of ensuring
that a building/ structure array of systems are
planned, designed, installed and tested to
perform according to the design intent and the
buildings operational needs. If the building
materials, equipment and systems are not
installed properly or not operating as intended,
the effectiveness, efficiency, productivity and
other benefits of high performance plans/design
will not be achieved.
WHAT IS BUILDING
COMMISSIONING?
 It is a systematic quality assurance and
documented process of ensuring that
building system are designed, installed,
tested and capable of being operated and
maintained to perform interactively according
to the design intent and the owner’s
operational needs.
BUILDING ENVIRONMENT
CERTIFICATION
 The building environment rating
system is needed to evaluate the
environmental performance of a
building and to encourage market
migration towards sustainable design.
The rating system must be:
 Credit- based, allowing projects to earn
points for environmental- friendly use of a
building/structure and actions taken during
planning, designing, construction and
occupancy.
 flexible, such as projects need to meet
identical requirements to quality.
 consensus-based and market driven in
order to acceleration the development and
implementation of the green building
practices.
 The consulting Architect in this area of
practice must have much more than the basic
knowledge of Green Architecture and
Environmental and/or Sustainable Design and
sufficient knowledge of the governing laws and
Environmental investigation processes and
procedures under International protocols such
as the Philippine Solid Waste, Clean Air and
Clean Water Acts, DENR administrative
issuances and the like
 EXAMPLES:
 Arya Residences (BGC, Taguig)
 Citi Plaza (Taguig)
 Union Bank Olongapo Branch
 Unilever Bayanihan Project (Taguig)
 Zuellig Building ( Makati City)
 Texas Instrument Philippines Clark( Clark
Freefort Zone, Pampanga
 Pioneer House Cagayan De Oro
 Bench tower ( The Fort, Taguig City)
 Wells Fargo Center (Building A, B, C) Taguig
City
FORENSIC
ARCHITECTURE
 The Architects in this area of practice
undertakes a scientific study on a built
environment’s well-being which allows the
Achitect to focus on the ways in which the
building/structure can best maintain itself
and prolong its life in a cost-efficient
manner, and dinally provide
recommendations to the owner/client. The
forensic study may include:
 determination as to the causes of the
building, building component and/or building
material deterioration.
 the causes of observed building
deffieciencies e.g. non-compliance with
planning and building laws, deviations from
the original use or function of spaces.
 research on possible faulty activities and
operation during the project implementation
phase.
 determination of faulty plan/design and/ or
construction methodology.