AN ASSESSMENT OF STRATEGIC MAINTENANCE PLAN AND POLICY ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS

AN ASSESSMENT OF STRATEGIC MAINTENANCE PLAN AND POLICY ON PUBLIC BUILDINGS

CHAPTER ONE

1.0     INTRODUCTION

Maintenance function can be described as the act of keeping a physical facility in good operating function .According to world academy of science engineering and technology (volume 41 may 2009) sustainability in building is a practice that consist ideas and function responsible to keep the building in good working condition throughout the building facility life cycle.

Strategic maintenance provides services that improve maintenance sufficiency, equipment reliability, and cost tracking. Strategic management is the comprehensive collection of ongoing activities and processes that organization use to systematically co-ordinate and align resources and actions with mission, vision, and strategy throughout an organization.

Adebayo (1991) states in his postulation that maintenance manager should have the knowledge and skills necessary to make valid decisions about what to do and how to do it; Strategic management activities transform the static plan into a system that provides strategic performance feedback to decision making and enable the plan to evolve and grow as requirement and other circumstances change. Strategic plan is a document used to communicate with the organization goals, the action needed to achieve those goals and all of the other critical element developed during the planning exercise.

In maintenance the difficult of carrying out cost, and benefit analysis for the different maintenance policies, point out the need of management on maintenance cost for planning and control system that support them in the policy design process, considering both visible and hidden cost and their effect on asset availability. Management should ensure that a comprehensive building maintenance list comprises of properly train personnel carrying out the maintenance activities to proper schedule, such as understanding the requirement of a good building maintenance. The maintenance of the public building is a daily activity of the institution and its personnel.

It is an important factor in the delivery of education, the maintenance program should be comprises of three basic components, organization, inspection and maintenance plan. This manual will help to provide guidance to school personnel in preparing a detail list of areas, spaces, materials, furniture, and equipment to be maintained as well as a list of defect to be corrected, with the information provided, could help plan maintenance activities and develop a detail annual maintenance budget.

Referring to Seeley (1976) who mention that “one third of the maintenance cost of building can be saved if proper care has been taken at design and construction stage”. Administrative block is an eye of the institution where all the administrative members including rector stays. It comprises of hierarchy of people and also where management meeting are taking place. Management pay less attention to the maintenance component of the building process in the institution. Administrative block was constructed in 2004 though still ongoing process of construction because it is in phases according to the master plan of the location. The last 2009 maintenance was on roof approximate cost #1`.8million while in 2011 was general maintenance both internal and external maintenance excluding roof.

Every department has a work department who has an officer in charge of the department that will report to the chief executive for the control and cost of the maintenance of building for approval before the maintenance commence.

Oyefeko (1999) Support that ignoring maintenance has direct consequences often involved significantly more men and materials, and a great disruption to occupancy than would have been the case it normal routine maintenance had been followed these are important issues creating a need for this study.

Performance of building assets

Maintenance must be viewed in the overall context of the ability of the building asset to support service delivery in terms of physical condition, functionality, capacity, environmental performance and alignment with service demand.

Maximum value for maintenance expenditure involves strategic application of funds taking into account the required performance of the assets. Maintenance of ineffective assets should be questioned and options for their future role should be critically evaluated.

The broad scope and application of building asset performance management, and the key principles and elements necessary for achieving effective management of buildings, are outlined in the Queensland Government best practice guideline, the Building Asset Performance Framework.

Happened in the past and how it relates to the current setting. Ongoing maintenance “problems” should be viewed as opportunities to generate creative solutions that reduce costs, improve reliability and increase longevity.

1.1 STATEMENT OF PROBLEM

Communication and process delivery are key to the success of this initiative. If the programme is to work, it will be necessary for property professionals to enter into closer internal and external collaboration with other disciplines and sectors. The fact remains that buildings deteriorate and as long as people occupy them, they will need to be maintained and kept fit for purpose. By sharing a single goal it should be possible to identify common interests and work closely to provide the right solution to a long term future.

This document provides an insight into the complexities that must be addressed in order for the essential procedures to work.

Maintenance cost continues to escalate. Therefore, there should be a comprehensive and systematic strategies plan set in place to formulate sustainable maintenance policies on building infrastructure in the institution to ensure that maintenance is well taking care of and invariably reduce subsequent maintenance cost.

1.2     AIM

The aim of the research work is an assessment of strategic maintenance plan and policy on public buildings

1.3     OBJECTIVES

1. To examine the various maintenance policies on public buildings in Nigeria
2. To assess the various methods of maintenance on the public buildings in Nigeria
3. To evaluate the total application of various methods of maintenance on public buildings in Nigeria

1.4     SCOPE

The scope of this project is an assessment of strategic maintenance plan and policy on public buildings in Nigeria. The method of the maintenance and the strategies to be adopted in improving maintenance plan in the study area.

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