The University's facilities includes 440 buildings in 20 different locations, geographically spread throughout the city of Al Ain.This distribution poses a significant logistics and management challenge.
Each campus or hostel relies on the Campus Development Department for its operations and maintenance services within very limited resources and budget constraints. The Campus Development Department has developed and refined the operations and maintenance process at the University:
Corrective Maintenance refers to activities conducted as a result of breakdown or noticeable infrastructure deterioration. In simple terms it is making repairs, or even simply, fixing something. Corrective Maintenance is inherently " reactive " in that it is carried out after some defect is discerned, often because the system is not operating as intended. In some areas corrective maintenance is known as curative maintenance.
Preventive Maintenance refers to systematic pre-scheduled activities or programs of inspections and maintenance activities aimed at the early detection of defects and implementation of actions to avoid breakdowns or infrastructure deterioration. Preventive Maintenance is " proactive " in the sense that these activities are conducted before a defect occurs. Often the costs of many preventive maintenance activities are low compared with corrective maintenance or rehabilitation.
Rehabilitation or Refurbishment refers to activities carried out to correct major defects in order to restore a facility to its intended operational status and capacity, without significantly expanding it beyond its originally planned or designed function or extent. This refurbishment or rehabilitation should be distinguished from construction which refers to the initial creation of infrastructure, as well as from expansion or extension which refer to the increasing of the capacity or geographical extent of a system of infrastructure. Refurbishment or Rehabilitation activities are generally more expansive than corrective maintenance activities.
