000			01600cam a2200217 4500
001			ABS66957
008			030821n2003 000 0 eng u
035			_a(Sirsi) u123343
100			_aKangwa, J.
245		3	_aAn investigation into home owner maintenance awareness, management and skill-knowledge enhancing attributes
260			_c2003
490			_aStructural Survey _v21(2) 2003, 70-78(9)
520			_aRecent governments have highlighted the problems of unfitness and why individual homeowners should intervene to deal with the maintenance problems of their own homes. Current estimates of the cost of comprehensive renewal are said to run into billions of pounds. There is also a genuine concern that the number of unfit dwellings will continue to increase regardless of the steady pace of renewal programmes. Arguably this concern has greatly influenced the dynamics of primary maintenance attributes of property owners. The primary attributes are recognised to be a product of increased owner-maintenance awareness; enhanced owner maintenance skills and knowledge; and the owner maintenance management abilities. These attributes are interwoven, and therefore cannot be left out of current initiatives to improving the backlog of under-maintenance in the owner-occupier sector. Tables and references. [Taken from article abstract].
590			_aABS
650			_aBUILT ENVIRONMENT-BUILDING MAINTENANCE AND REFURBISHMENT
650			_aOWNERSHIP
650			_aUNFIT HOUSING
690			_aBUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION-REPAIRS AND MAINTENANCE
700			_aOlubodun, F.
942			_n0
999			_c73274 _d73274