W6 maintenance

Light Rail Transit Facilities Design Course

Maintenance Considerations 1

Long-Term

Maintainability

Presented by:

Lyn Wylder, P.E.



Never Better than Opening Day

• During Design Ask:

“How are they going to clean those windows?”

• Think long term



Design Criteria • Should include

maintenance input

• Original criteria likely written before any maintenance is done

• It may say the design life is 50 years … but the system better be here in 100



Communication

• Include both design and maintenance staff

• Goes both ways

• Find out what is working … and what isn't



Ask Questions on Maintenance Practices

• Ask early in design

• When and how is maintenance done?

• How is it cleaned?

• Are particular cleaners used?



Ask Operating Questions Too!

• What are the operating hours?

• When will the operating plan allow maintenance?

• What is the frequency of

service?

• Will any portions of the project be used for non-transit uses?



Other Things to Consider

• Special events

• Extreme load

• Employee break areas

• Things you can’t imagine



Think Maintenance

• If you want to know how it will be maintained … ask maintenance

• Control all water

• Concentrate on providing a firm foundation



Long Term Cost Issues • How much money is available for maintenance?

• When there is a

shortage of funds,

maintenance suffers

• In times of tight budgets, specialty high cost items may

have purchases

delayed



Maintenance Staff • Usually preformed by

unionized personnel

• May be restrictions on maintenance due to each work rules

• Shift differential or overtime rules may increase the cost of maintenance work



After Construction is Complete ...

• Maintenance is the first to know about your design failures

• It will be maintained in the easiest way … not the way you thought it would

• No matter how small the probability ….. It will happen



Design Awards Should be Given After at Least 10 Years After Opening Day



Examples of Floor Problems



Wall Coverings



Roofing, Lighting and Support Issues



Expect the Unexpected



• QUESTIONS?

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