Too often a new building is a teacher of bad maintenance habits. After the initial shakedown period, everything pretty much works, and the owner and inhabitants gratefully stop paying attention to the place. Once attention is deferred, deferring of maintenance comes naturally. It might be better if some of the original work were intentionally ephemeral, with everyone knowing it will require maintenance or replacement within a year. “How might a new building teach good maintenance habits?” is a question worth giving to architecture students.
