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Improving Maintenance Culture And Quality Of Public Properties In Nigeria
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He further said that all these could be planned for during the design
stage. Maintenance problems though do manifest during the use of the
building, their causes might be during the design stage. These made
Dekker (2002) to assert that thinking on the maintenance should start in
the design phase. According to Speight (2000), it is at the design
stage that the maintenance burden can be positively influenced for
better or for worse. Where the designer fails to make adequate
consideration for minimizing maintenance problems, it always turns out
to be a big problem when the building is eventually occupied for usage,
the consideration for effective maintenance as one of the parameters for
the building design. Seeley (1997) also said that a skilful design can
reduce the amount of maintenance work and also make it easier to
perform, since good maintenance begins on the drawing board.
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Oladimeji
(1996) further described maintenance of public properties as the
combination of any continuous actions carried out to retain a property
in or restore it to an acceptable condition. Onwuka (1989) stated that
maintenance culture is concerned with the planning and control of
construction resources to ensure that necessary repairs and renewal are
carried out with maximum efficiency and economy to enhance the quality
of the property. However, the researcher is examining the ways of
improving maintenance culture and quality of public properties in
Nigeria.
1.3 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
The following are the objectives of this study:
1. To examine ways of improving maintenance culture in Nigeria.
2. To determine ways of enhancing the quality of public properties through improved maintenance culture.
3. To determine the factors affecting maintenance culture in Nigeria.
1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
2. What are the ways of improving maintenance culture in Nigeria?
3. What are the ways of enhancing the quality of public properties through improved maintenance culture?
4. What are the factors affecting maintenance culture in Nigeria.
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The following are the significance of this study:
1.
The findings from this study will educate the government and policy
makers, stakeholders in building and the general public on the need for
improvement in maintenance culture as a way of improving the quality of
public property.
2. This research will also serve as a resource base
to other scholars and researchers interested in carrying out further
research in this field subsequently, if applied will go to an extent to
provide new explanation to the topic
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