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The growing populations of students in higher institution is increasing year by year, therefore, it is important to ensure that the building is performed and well functioned throughout its lifecycle. It is inevitable that the educational process and learning activities may be interrupted if the building experience a poor performance conditions, thu...
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... qualitative and quantitative methods will be used as a research method to achieve the objectives of this study and to answer research questions. Generally, this research strategy is divided into three (3) phases (refer to Fig. 2). The first phase in doing this research is to study the theory and the concept of building performance evaluation and analyze precedent application of such evaluation. All of the factors and constraints of the building performance is determined and the standard provision of the technical performance in academic building is also ...
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... The growing population of students in higher education institutions is increasing on a yearly basis, therefore, it is important to ensure that buildings are performing not only optimally but are functional throughout their life-cycles. Hence, the educational process and learning activities may be interrupted if the buildings experience poor performance conditions, thus affecting the students' academic achievement (Khalil & Husin, 2011). However, Buys et al. (2009) and Zulkarnain et al. (2011) indicated that the performance of tertiary institutions, in terms of maintenance management, is far below best practice. ...
Higher education institutions face immediate pressure to preserve existing building facilities within the campuses and enhance the capacity of their higher education system to address growing demands of an increasing influx of students and academic activities. There is no doubt that dilapidated and unhealthy buildings in a decaying environment depresses the quality of life and contributes in some measure to antisocial behaviours. The buildings of higher education institutions in Nigeria only receive top management attention when there is a problem. Hence, the paper assessed the building maintenance management practices of 6 higher institutions available (2 universities, 2 polytechnics and 2 colleges of education) in Niger State. This was done by interviewing the Directors of Works of the 6 institutions using a structured interview method. The study revealed that there was no maintenance manual in any of the Works Department of the higher education institution, no user satisfaction survey has ever been conducted and none of the institutions had a computerised maintenance management system (CMMS) in place. In addition to these, corrective maintenance was mostly adopted and there was inadequate staffing of the field operatives. All these shortcomings might be responsible for the backlog of maintenance work experienced in the institutions studied. A proactive maintenance system should be put in place, CMMS should be adopted to enhance effective maintenance work, and top management should be enlightened on the imperative of maintenance among other issues competing for funds within the institutions and be more flexible in allocation of resources to enhance maintenance works.
