Causes And Remedies Of Poor Maintenance Of Public Building In Enugu Urban

1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The aim of this study is to investigate the common problems of building maintenance in Nigeria so that ways of over coming the problems may be adopted.

OBJECTIVES

The main objectives of this study are.

1. To spell out the need for and benefits of maintenance manual to buildings owners and the occupiers in the maintenance processes.

2. For the government to put in place maintenance policy that will require government owned building to be maintained from time in Nigeria.

3. To go for market survey in terms of making choices on the type of materials to be used and go for good quality material e.g. paint, timber, ceiling board tiles, pipes etc.

4. To make provisions for good workmanship, to work according to the specification, to do the job as required in terms of construction techniques and also make sure the job is well supervised at the early stage.

5. To provide a good design plan to avoid effects as time goes on and to make sure the structural, electrical and mechanical engineers carried out their jobs properly.

6. The government should also provide a maintenance department especially for public buildings.

1.4 RESEARCH QUESTIONS

The question this research intends to find answers to are:-

1) Do the owners and occupiers of buildings know the benefit of building maintenance manual?

2) Does the government have maintenance policy that will enable them own a building to be maintained in Nigeria?

3) Do the owners and occupiers of building go for good quality material?

4) Do the owners and occupiers of building make good use of available workmen and artisans, work according to specifications, construction techniques and supervision of the work at the early stages of construction?

5) Do the architect; structural, electrical and mechanical engineers carry out their jobs properly at the early stage?

6) Are the public building owners and occupiers aware of maintenance department?

1.5 SCOPE AND (DELIMITATION) OF THE STUDY

This research shall be limited to some selected public buildings in Old G.R.A Enugu State. Most of them are quite easily accessible and in terrible state of disrepair. This study focuses on types of maintenance, maintenance policy formation and methodology, concept of maintenance, maintenance manual maintenance management and execution of maintenance work.

1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The significance of this research work is that:-

1.  It will benefit the researcher on the above topic based on the fact that the topic of discussion is from her discipline, because no knowledge is a waste and it will also be of benefit to the forth coming researcher (student) who may wish to carry out similar or related research work in the above study and as such it can serve as reference material to the researcher. It also be of benefit to government.

2. The study will also benefit the building industry on how to manage and up date their information technology level so as to meet up with customer expectation in their daily transactions.

3. The study will also be of profit to the society at large because maintenance is highly needed in our society especially in building industry.

4. It will be of benefit to the management of building industry in terms of employing capable hands as staff in the organization.

5. The study will be of benefit to the owners of the building even to the occupants as well.

1.7 DEFINITION OF TERMS

MAINTENANCE: This is the combination of any action carried out to retain an item in or restore it to an acceptable condition.

RETAINING AND RESTORE: Retaining process can be interpreted as the work carried out as a preventive nature in anticipation of failure of certain building elements or services. The restoring on the other hand can be related to those work carried out after failure of the elements or a service has occurred like. Paint, work, roof, wall, foundation etc.

ACCEPTABLE CONDITION: There is no specific standard as the phrase “acceptable condition’ it is obvious that what is acceptable to “A” may not be acceptable to “B” in that sense the acceptable condition, varies from person to person, one community to another, nation to nation and so on.

BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANUAL: This is comprehensive guide, which will include appropriate from and log books for maintenance of a building prepared by a consortium of registered Architect, registered building and registered engineers.