Building care encompasses everything from maintenance of a building to energy conservation and range of approaches; including the effects on design. A range of approaches to looking after buildings and their users is covered in this book. The rationale and conditions that support them (e.g. PPM - preventative planned maintenance; JIT - just in time) are explained; together with the commercial and environmental imperatives driving new approaches to building care.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful. Oh Stanley; PleaseBy V. CariagaStanley Crouch undoubtedly knows a lot about jazz; and he is an okay writer. The fact that hes also a pompous; condescending windbag makes this book a mixed pleasure. He is at his best when he livens things up with inside accounts of different jazz personalities. But he can grate on your nerves when he starts into his frequent sermons about what jazz should aspire to be. In these instances; he acts like he is the final arbiter on what constitutes jazz; who should be considered great artists and who should be considered lightweights; and why you are wrong for believing that Chet Baker was a good trumpeter or certain strains of fusion jazz are worthy of praise. With Crouch; you have to take the bitter with the sweet. Too bad that the bitter outweighs the sweet in this book.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. an education in jazzBy Randolph SeversonThis book is an education in jazz; or; at least; it was for me. It fosters a refinement of sensibility attuned to constants and essentials set against a richly articulated background of aesthetic theory; culture; literature; biography and history. The writing is always ambitious; often magnificent; never less than thoroughly enjoyable. Informed; expansive; impressionistic; pointed; opinionated; indignantly critical at times; the essays gathered in this volume are lessons in differentiated celebration and appreciation of what is; perhaps; the distinctively American art form. The essay on Duke Ellington and the concluding essay about a visit to Italy for a jazz festival are especially fine. Crouch can be provocative and now and then can stoop to conquer but; to this reader; it always seems rigorously principled; a contrarianism born of hard won knowledge and enduring standards rather than malice or habitual rancor. Very highly recommended.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Five StarsBy Robert F. SnyderLove it.