Assessment of the types of public building maintenance contracts in Saudi Arabia. Detailed investigation of randomly selected maintenance contracts for government agencies and accepted definitions of the five major types

  • Abdul Mohsen Al-Hammad*
  • , Sadi Assaf
  • , Tali Al-Hazmi
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

The study revealed that Fixed Price, Cost Plus and Purchased Labour contracts are the top three maintenance contracts adopted whilst Unit Price, Cost Plus A Percentage Fee contracts are alternatives used in the Kingdom. Some other types of maintenance contract were thought to be inappropriate by ministry departments.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)358-362
Number of pages5
JournalBuilding Research and Information
Volume24
Issue number6
DOIs
StatePublished - 1996

Keywords

  • Assessment
  • Building maintenance contracts
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Types

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Civil and Structural Engineering
  • Building and Construction

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