The Maintenance of Tertiary Institution Buildings in Ondo State, Nigeria: Practice, Problem and Prospect.

Abstract

Maintenance is the preservation of buildings in their initial functional, structural, aesthetic state, so that they continue to remain in such healthy state and retain their value and standard for a long period of existence. The aim of research is to know the maintenance techniques employed in the tertiary institutions, examine the physical state of building within the study area and evaluate the challenges facing maintenance of the tertiary institution buildings with proffer solutions.  Data for this study were collected through personal observation, desk research, oral interview and convenient sampling techniques was used to distribute the questionnaire and it was concluded from the findings that: corrective maintenance is the most applicable technique employed in the study area: roof leakages was the major defects in buildings and major challenge facing maintenance of tertiary institution buildings is finance.  Finding also revealed that most of the tertiary institutions in ondo state have works and maintenance unit with sustainable maintenance policy, their staff needs adequate training and necessary update on how to execute maintenance work. Furthermore, inadequate expenditure in maintenance, shortage of staff, lack of maintenance specialist and poor resources management are the deficiencies that inhibits maintenance discharge in the study area. It was recommended that there should be adoption of corrective maintenance buildings in the study area should be regularly maintained to guide against roof leakage, cracks on the wall and maintenance work should be adequately finance.

Keywords: Maintenance, Tertiary Institutions, Defects, Culture, Infrastructural facilities