Challenges of Building Maintenance Management in Corporate Organizations
Abstract of Challenges of Building Maintenance Management in Corporate Organizations
The study focused on examining the operational state of buildings in Corporate Organization in Lagos state. It also scrutinizes the factors affecting maintenance management and the types of building maintenance management strategies in use in Corporate Organizations in Lagos State. In achieving, these objectives, opinions of maintenance officers and users of some building in selected corporate organizations were sampled through structured questionnaires. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics. The analysis revealed the operational state of buildings of corporate organization in Lagos State as been above average. Maintenance officers and users of the buildings ranked complexity of design and non-involvement of maintenance experts during design and construction stage, attitude of users and misuse of facilities and inflation of cost of maintenance by the operatives, as the most significant factors affecting maintenance management respectively, both samples rated “Insufficient fund for maintenance job” as one of the most significant factor responsible for poor maintenance management of public hospital buildings in Lagos State. This however, is contrary to the claim of inadequate funding by the maintenance management as revealed by another analysis in the survey. The study also shows that preventive maintenance management is mostly practice in most organizations in Lagos state. The study recommends that maintenance personnel and users should form a synergy for a more efficient maintenance, government should enact law that enforce the incorporation of maintainability analysis in conception stage of project, developers should ensure availability of the overall maintenance fund and proactive and value based maintenance management strategy should be adopted.