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Impact Of Maintenance Of Buildings And Infrastructural Facilities To The National Economy
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1.4 Significance of the study
Maintenance
of buildings and the general infrastructures has not been given full
recognition as an activity of primary importance in Nigeria. Maintenance
activities on building and infrastructures in the country are mostly
based on expediency, which over a period of time represents a series of
ad hoc measures and unrelated compromise between the immediate physical
needs and the availability of funds. Thus only about 15% of the total
maintenance are remedied. If serious deterioration are not adequately
taken care of future generations will be faced with a major capital
burden.(Amobi 2003).
It is therefore imperative that maintenance
activities should be increased/ intensified in order to ensure that the
nation’s stock of buildings( factors of production and accommodation)
which are considerable investments are used effectively as possible.
1.5 Scope and delimitations
This
project work covers the entirety of maintenance as regards to buildings
and infrastructures with requisite effect it has on the Nigerian nation
with reference to shell-camp housing estate, owerri, Imo state.
From
the conception, design, construction and post construction, the various
problems being faced by property developers, owners, users as regards
to maintenance of buildings and infrastructures. Much emphasis is placed
on the infrastructural aspect of maintenance work such as social and
economic infrastructure as well as scope management and its application
on the scope of this project.
1.6 Limitation.
Enough
effort has been put to exhaust the scope aforementioned but time and
cost constraint relative to the magnitude of maintenance problems are
the major forms of limitations for the total achievement of the project
objective.
1.7 Research questions
This research work aims to answer these questions
(a) What is infrastructural and building maintenance?
(b) What are the direct effects of lack of maintenance to buildings and infrastructures?
(c) Does lack of maintenance affect the economy of Nigeria as a nation?
(d) What are the direct causes of poor maintenance value in Nigeria?
(e) Does poor maintenance value affect the Nigerian citizenry? How? And why?
(f)
Is poor maintenance value as a result of illiteracy, negligence,
contractor’s failure as regards to materials, labour and supervision
failure, design failure or activities of the occupants?
These and many more are some of the questions this research work aims to satisfy.
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