Handover defects: comparison of construction and post-handover housing defects

Handover defects : comparison of construction and post - handover housing defects

Although inspections occur during construction or at handover, customers do not normally participate. This situation creates a gap between quality perceived by contractors and customers. An analysis of 52,552 handover defects in 2,179 flats in Spain is presented which identified their nature, the building element and trade where these defects are located. These results are compared to previous ...

Post-handover housing defects: sources and origins

In Spain, the high levels of inexperienced workers and the long chains of subcontracting contribute to poor quality of dwellings. Although the Ley reguladora de la subcontratación en el Sector de la Construcción (Subcontracting law) has established quality measures, the number of customer complaints is still increasing. In this paper, a total of 2351 post-handover defects derived from four Span...

Influence of building type on post-handover defects in housing

Clients’ lack of involvement in defining quality requirements for dwellings built by developers leads to a perception of poor quality at the time of purchase. The research presented in this paper aims to broaden previous research on defects by analyzing the defects that remain in the post-handover stage, which usually lasts 12 months after the handover period, and identifying the factors that i...

Handover in WCDMA Uplink and Downlink. Performance of Handover Algorithms

Mobile Ip Handover: a Comparative Survey of Seamless Handover Mechanisms

A seamless handover scheme with low latency and low packet loss is an important issue to maintain end-to-end TCP performance of mobile users. Several solutions have been proposed as extensions of Mobile IPv6 to improve the handover performance of mobility, each solution has its own advantages and disadvantages, and therefore, an standardized handover mechanism is not accepted yet. In this paper...