The notion of building maintenance is separated into two elements specifically building maintenance management and building maintenance technology. Building maintenance management should accurately be considered as unfolding how a system of maintenance endeavor might be prearranged to deal with a problem of building maintenance. It distinguishes that, aside from locating and remedying the building deficiency an effective programme to restrain overall cost of maintenance but also in an effort to maximize the gain and benefits of the savings. There are a few factors that influence the decision to accomplish the maintenance work. There are the maintenance needs that is the principal aspire of maintenance is to protect a building in its early stage and some major rationale for maintaining building are retaining its significance and value of investments, maintaining the building in a condition that it persists to accomplish its purpose and presenting a good outer shell. Besides that, the efficient maintenance management system embraces many skills and efforts that include identifying maintenance needs and the accurate and spot on remedies. In general, there have four types of maintenance which are breakdown or corrective maintenance, scheduled maintenance, preventive maintenance and also predictive maintenance. This paper will review and discuss some of the major elements of building maintenance towards achieving sustainable building.
