# Preventive Maintenance

> Preventive Maintenance keeps the physical vessel safe, useful, comfortable, and capable of renewal

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Stable ID | `node:kiduna:real-estate-mortgage:building-systems:preventive-maintenance` |
| Family | Building Systems & Stewardship |
| Domain | Technology |
| Era | Institutional Age → Collective Age |
| Kind | process |
| Archetype | The Test |
| Claim layers | empirical, cultural_historical, synthesis, interpretive, symbolic_divinatory |

## What it is

Preventive Maintenance is a process in the Building Systems & Stewardship family, defined here by the function it performs in the property system rather than by label alone.

## What it actually does

Preventive Maintenance keeps the physical vessel safe, useful, comfortable, and capable of renewal.

## Why it exists

It exists because place is unique and immovable while law, capital, information, and human lives must still coordinate around it across time.

## System mechanics

- **Who uses it:** owner, developer, architect, engineer, contractor, inspector
- **Incentives:** certainty, speed, compliance, completion, error reduction
- **Inputs:** participants, documents, conditions, authority, time
- **Outputs:** decision, changed state, record, new obligations
- **Dependencies:** Land, Authority, Information, Capital, Time

## Archetypal reading

- **Essence:** Preventive Maintenance keeps the physical vessel safe, useful, comfortable, and capable of renewal
- **Gift:** Clarity about preventive maintenance makes a hidden allocation of place, time, authority, value, or risk available for deliberate choice.
- **Wound / Shadow:** When preventive maintenance is treated as neutral or inevitable, its costs can be shifted to people who hold less information, authority, liquidity, or mobility.
- **Failure mode:** The failure mode appears when preventive maintenance is stale, opaque, mispriced, misrecorded, overextended, or applied outside the conditions that made it useful.

## Lenses

- **Personal:** Notice where preventive maintenance appears as a structure in your own commitments: what is held, promised, priced, protected, excluded, or deferred?
- **Business:** Preventive Maintenance reveals a handoff among information, authority, incentives, operating work, and capital. Make the owner of each handoff explicit.
- **Financial:** Preventive Maintenance changes the timing, priority, comparability, liquidity, or distribution of cash flow and risk.
- **Property:** Preventive Maintenance changes how a physical place can be used, valued, financed, transferred, occupied, maintained, or reclaimed.
- **Community:** Preventive Maintenance can create benefits inside one parcel while exporting costs or opportunity to neighbors, institutions, or future residents.

## Divination

The Test enters the reading through Preventive Maintenance. The issue is not only what is visible; it is which map of ownership, time, risk, authority, or belonging currently governs the situation.

**Question:** What information or condition must Preventive Maintenance translate before the next commitment becomes safe?

**Guidance:** Make conditions, exceptions, handoffs, and completion criteria explicit.

## Game function

Creates a gated action requiring inputs, a decision, and a resulting Record. Initiative 2.

## Relationships

- **Retainage amplifies Preventive Maintenance.** Retainage amplifies Preventive Maintenance through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Utility Service enables Preventive Maintenance.** Utility Service enables Preventive Maintenance through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Preventive Maintenance prices Deferred Maintenance.** Preventive Maintenance prices Deferred Maintenance through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.
- **Preventive Maintenance conflicts with Shared Ownership.** Preventive Maintenance conflicts with Shared Ownership through a change in rights, information, cash flow, priority, timing, or physical use.

## Oppositions

- Use Value versus Exchange Value
- Speed versus Diligence

## Historical lineage and regulatory context

Read Preventive Maintenance through the lineage of Building Systems & Stewardship: earlier customary or local arrangements became recorded, standardized, financed, regulated, digitized, or contested over time.

Rules vary by jurisdiction and transaction. Use the cited primary sources as starting points and verify current local law, program guides, contracts, and professional standards before operational use.

## Visual direction

Text-free rounded-square enamel artifact for Preventive Maintenance: a sequence of thresholds connected by a single bright path, with conditions represented as gates; vitreous midnight enamel, blackened steel, warm brass, copper accents, mortgage-paper cream, deep green, slate, and sky blue.

## Engine output / Sentinel handoff

The generative interpretation above is preserved as Engine Output. Sentinel factors: jurisdiction-specific rules, factual uncertainty. These factors request contextual review; they do not delete or silently rewrite the candidate.

## Research / provenance

- [Commercial Building Performance Monitoring and Evaluation](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/commercial-building-performance-monitoring-and-evaluation) — U.S. Department of Energy; building performance metrics and evaluation.
- [Energy Codes 101](https://www.energy.gov/cmei/buildings/articles/energy-codes-101-what-are-they-and-what-does-role) — U.S. Department of Energy; model codes, adoption, enforcement, building systems.
