In Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s words, “Everybody wants to build, nobody wants to do maintenance.” Like humans, buildings have a life cycle. Buildings aren’t in the class of assets that remain new forever. They are given birth to, and they die. At every stage in the life cycle of a building, it talks just like you do. Are you like: building doesn’t have a mouth, how come does it talk? And if it does, what is it saying? In what language does it speak? I understand how impatient you are right now to get answers to these questions. But trust me, you’d get them in this article.