DEVELOPMENT OF STRATEGIES FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF NATIONAL PUBLIC MAINTENANCE FRAMEWORK IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONAL BUILDING IN DELTA STATE, NIGERIA

Charles Adedoja Adewunmi, Peter Uchenna Okoye, Kevin Chuks Okolie

Abstract


There is awareness that appropriate maintenance strategies can help to improve the present conditions of buildings in tertiary institution in Nigeria. However, there are few studies on the most appropriate maintenance strategies to be engaged by maintenance department to improve the conditions of the existing academic buildings in tertiary institution in Nigeria. Therefore, the aim of this research is to access the conditions of current conditions of the student used
building in tertiary institution building in Delta State in a view to develop a guild to minimized building defect in the study area. To achieve this aim, objectives were developed. They include: evaluating the current conditions of tertiary institutional buildings in Delta State and hypothesis was formulated; Being qualitative research, the study adopts questionnaire, interview and review of related literature to source the data needed for the analysis. Structured questionnaire was used to extract primary data from maintenance staff and professional in the build environment of the institutions, while direct observations were employed in deriving data on the state of disrepair of the buildings. The data collected was analysed using standards application software’s which include Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS version 20) and Microsoft Word 2020. Relative Important Index (RII) was used for ranking. One hundred and thirty-three (133) copies of the questionnaire were administered, and the results obtained were presented in a frequency table and a chart; From the analysed data, it was concluded that the Maintenance policy and practice adopted by the institution are the very significant factor responsible for the current state of institutional buildings in the study area.

Keywords: Building Maintenance, Institutional Buildings, Maintenance Strategies, National Public Maintenance Framework, Tertiary Institution


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