Prohibitive cost of building maintenance

The Lloyd's ultra-modern building in London cost £91 million and about £1.5 million a year to repair and maintain, around 50% per square metre more than less sophisticated office premises. The exterior lifts and steel cladding pose particularly high maintenance costs.

1. Hi-tech buildings have not performed in the way professionals had promised. It is almost at the stage where you need fully-fledged engineers to maintain buildings designed by fully-fledged engineers. The image of the technology hijacks the functionality. A lot of hi-tech solutions are just too clever for the skills available to keep them going.

1. Prohibitive cost of maintenance
2. Excessive costs

1. Social inadequacy of large buildings
2. Neglect of property maintenance
3. Increase in abandoned buildings
4. Inadequate maintenance of infrastructure
5. Inadequate acclimatization of buildings
6. Deteriorated building conditions

1. Unprofessional building management
2. Dependence on sophisticated technology for development

1. Prohibitive construction costs

1. Prohibition
2. Expensive
3. Costliness