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The theory that concepts that are interpreted subjectively in building care creates problems in how the
concepts are defined in practice within the current governing documents and guidelines for building
care.
This essay has studied concepts in the building maintenance literature to investigate whether there is
consensus in compliance practice within the building process. In the study, 9 concepts have been
investigated through conversational interviews and questionnaires answered by practitioners with
extensive experience in building care processes. In the survey, an attempt is made, to measure how big
or small the consensus is between practitioners who often need to collaborate within the building
maintenance process. The investigation shows that existence of the concepts in building maintenance
is very common in the theoretical literature examined but is almost completely absent in the craft area.
Since laws, regulations, principles, and guidelines have defined concepts to support the decisions in
the building maintenance process, it can be concluded that there is a lack of practice for compliance.
The questions of how concepts are used and interpreted in building maintenance have been a question
that several investigations have studied and worked on. There are common working models for how a
good valuation and guidance can be followed, which the parliament through the Swedish National
Heritage Board has worked on and within the international charters from the organization ICOMOS.
However, it is something that institutions should perhaps put more focus on in education in building
care, traditional crafts, and the more common construction education, to create a greater common
consensus in practice. That the language is precisely subjective is something that future research could
take further, to create practices for compliance with a more common approach and artisanal methods
in the building care of the future educational plans. Further the building care organizations could
approach a more compliant roll to fur fill the gap between theory and practice.
In this survey a broad perspective on how the concepts can be translated into different methods for
practice which could have negative consequences on the individual object. Therefore it?s a risk for a
negative building process and in the long run, to the point that it affects the understanding of building
care.