Corrective preventive maintenance in buildings: a literature review

Abstract

The maintenance of buildings consists of actions directed at the construction elements, equipment and installations that form the whole of a building and that provide security, habitability and efficiency resulting from a project where the execution and the materials used will have a longer useful life resulting from the way of use. Thus, this study aimed to conduct a literature review regarding the importance of preventive and corrective maintenance in buildings. The methodology used to achieve the proposed objective was the literature review. The research was of the descriptive type of qualitative approach. The sample of this literature review was composed of monographs, dissertations, rules, articles with national publications and date of publication between the last seven years. The database for collecting the articles was Google Scholar. The results showed that maintenance is characterized by a constant flow of standardized and periodic services, such as: cleaning, washing, repairs, adjustments, among others. In the end, it was concluded that preventive maintenance is a type of maintenance where actions are previously planned and corrective maintenance is performed through unplanned actions, in an immediate manner, and aims to restore the functional capacity of equipment or systems who are in trouble.