Adi Irfan  Che-Ani, Mohd.  Adib Adam, Afaq Hyder  Chohan, Wahiza  Wahi, Rozmel  Abdul Latiff, 
    The Practice of Building Inspection from the Perspective of
Building Management: A Preliminary Survey,
    Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences,
    Volume 14,Issue 23,
    2019,
    Pages 8658-8661,
    ISSN 1816-949x,
    jeasci.2019.8658.8661,
    (https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=jeasci.2019.8658.8661)
    Abstract: Building condition assessment is a fundamental activity in building management during building’s
life cycle. Building condition can be assessed by performing building inspection to gather all the information
and data needed. Therefore, it is important for building management team to master the building inspection work
in order to get the accurate data to perform an effective building maintenance. This study seek to reveal the
practice of building inspection from the perspective of building management team. The method used for data
collection was through questionnaire survey that involved 27 participants. All the participants were involved
in managing building with experience between 10-20 years. Participants were asked to response about the need
of building inspection, their preferences of performing building inspection and their familiarity with building
inspection standards or protocols. The data obtained were analyzed using SPSS Software to get the mean
scores. The result indicates that all respondents were aware about the need of building inspection under some
circumstances. However, they do not have good knowledge in building inspections works. Furthermore, the
result show that the majority of respondents were unfamiliar with building inspection standards or protocols.
    Keywords: Building inspection;building defects;building maintenance;building management;preliminarysurvey;unfamiliar