Overview

This unit aims to develop students understanding and specialised knowledge of maintenance management in construction and manufacturing industries with a focus on maintaining buildings, engineering assets and infrastructure facilities.

Requisites

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Associate reliability principles and risk assessments to appraise life cycle of different types engineering assets (K5, K6, S4, A1, A4, A5, A6)
  • Apply reliability-based maintenance and plant reliability engineering methods for sustainable performance in asset/facility life cycle (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Interpret and apply the concept of asset criticality (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Identify and classify Faults and Failures of engineering assets and components (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Employ FMEA, FMECA, RCM, FTA and RPN analysis for maintenance management of engineering assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Appreciate building maintenance requirements and apply relevant methods, materials, equipment and procedures for built facilities/ assets (K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A6, A7)
  • Develop and/ or apply maintenance analysis, maintenance programmes, performance measurements, reports, documentation and records(K2, K5, K6, S1, S2, S4, A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Lecture		 2.00  12 weeks  24
On-campus
Class		 1.00  12 weeks  12
Online 
Learning Activities		 1.00  12 weeks  12
Online
Directed Online Learning and Independent Learning		 1.00  12 weeks  12
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		 7.50  12 weeks  90
TOTAL     150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Class Exercise PortfolioIndividual 20 - 30% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
ProjectIndividual/Group 30 - 60% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 
TestIndividual 20 - 50% 1,2,3,4,5,6,7 

Content

This unit has following 3 components:

Component 1: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets Part 1

  • Assets, asset Management, life cycle of assets
  • Reliability of assets as the key principle of performance, quality, safety and sustainability.
  • Asset performance reliability
  • Asset maintenance management, definition, function, place in the organisation.
  • Maintenance as capability assurance function
  • Maintenance management reporting and measurements (KPA, KPI)
  • Maintenance philosophy, strategy, objectives, programmes and planning
  • Maintenance root cause analysis (FMECA, MTTM, MTBF, CMMS)
  • Quality and risk mitigation framework in maintenance management

Component 2: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets Part 2

  • Plant reliability as a component of co-quality system
  • RCM - reliability centred maintenance
  • Reliability based engineering, reliability modelling
  • Assessment of assets risks, safety and reliability. application of FMEA, FMECA, RPN, block diagrams and FTA.
  • Types of maintenance
  • Maintenance of plant and equipment

Component 3: Maintenance Management of Buildings and Engineering Assets Part 3

  • Introduction to building maintenance
  • Materials, equipment and systems for building maintenance
  • Permissions/ approvals for maintenance works
  • Maintenance contracts and documentation
  • Development and optimisation of maintenance programs
  • Organisation of maintenance
  • Sustainability focus in maintenance

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.