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This item details in note form, aspects of maintenance relevant to the issues of life‐cycle costing discussed in the paper by David Hoar, which was published in the last issue of Property Management.

Reviews development in air conditioning from cave dwellers to the mid 1970s in the UK. Presents an overview of common air conditioning systems, with their relative merits. Concludes that air conditioning gives increased comfort levels and efficiency. Argues that the design of systems should be user‐led, rather than technology‐driven.

Reviews a series of building services with an emphasis on maintenance systems and policies. Discusses commissioning as the hinge between construction and use. Explores the evolution in maintenance thinking and the relationship between the building and those who occupy it. Examines reliability‐centred maintenance, including time as a basis of maintenance, posing seven questions which lie at the heart of policy setting, and a procedure for implementation. Outlines the design/commissioning/maintenance link, advocating the use of a database abstracted from litigation, and analysis of failed buildings as a basis for design.

As another major outbreak of Legionnaires' disease makes the headlines with the recent case at the BBC's London headquarters, fears and uncertainties — and some misconceptions — have hit the public at large. The risk of legionella can be reduced to a negligible factor, but a careless slip by a designer, contractor, and particularly by maintenance management and technicians, can prove how fragile our defences against the disease are.

Lists groups to be considered at the start of a building project in order to improve internal air quality. Provides several symptoms of sick building syndrome, as described by the World Health Organization, and details some regulations and certain recommendations as to the original design. Considers some common indoor and outdoor pollutants, and concludes that the workforce should contribute to a healthy environment by reporting to management when dissatisfied.

Lists groups to be considered at the start of a building project in order to improve internal air quality. Provides several symptoms of sick building syndrome, as described by the World Health Organisation, and details some regulations and certain recommendations as to the original design. Considers some common indoor and outdoor pollutants, and concludes that the workforce should contribute to a healthy environment by reporting to management when dissatisfied.

Examines the equipment and skills necessary for the survey of building engineering services in existing buildings, and outlines their uses. Argues the necessity in a survey to extrapolate from the conditions found to those which will probably apply during the whole year, often in a very short space of time. Recommends the methods best used to achieve those ends.

Attempts to set down the general principles, arrangements and desirable contents of a report of a structural survey of a commercial property.

This paper attempts to summarise the proceedings of a conference on sick buildings held on 22nd May, 1987. Although the conference was aimed initially at sick buildings syndrome it was extended by the speakers to cover all building related sickness, their causes, their avoidance, and the financial consequences. The conference was organised by Henry Stewart Conference Studies.