Abstract:
Many Ghanaian public tertiary institutional structures are often inadequately
maintained and windows and doors and other building elements and facilities
frequently show evidence of lack of maintenance and repair. Some lecture halls and
office buildings of public tertiary institutions have not seen any significant
maintenance or show little signs of maintenance since they were constructed, some
dating back to the colonial era. Based on this, the study aimed at examining the
maintenance practices of public tertiary institutions. The specific objectives of the
study are to: determine maintenance policies and practices put in place as far as public
tertiary institutions in Ghana are concerned, identify drivers to maintenance of
building in public tertiary institution, and identify constraints to maintenance of
building in public tertiary institutions. The study adopted descriptive survey.
Purposive sampling was utilized in selecting 91 staff of the estate department of the
selected public tertiary institutions in Greater Accra. The study achieved 95.6%
response rate. Questionnaire was used as a data collection instrument. The study
found that maintenance department organised maintenance programme, inspect
physical condition of the building and its elements, plan head maintenance task and
perform when convenient, and do maintenance work on buildings regularly. The
study further indicated that building condition, age of the buildings, funding for
maintenance activities of public institutions, management decision, and user‟s
persistent complaint are the major drivers to maintenance of building in public tertiary
institutions. Based on this, a conclusions was reached and it was recommended the
maintenance department of the various public tertiary institutions should ensure
proper planning and executing maintenance programmes, as well as overcome the
prevailing maintenance problems.
Description:
A Dissertation in the Department of CONSTRUCTION AND WOOD
TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION, Faculty of TECHNICAL EDUCATION,
submitted to the School of Graduate Studies, University of Education, Winneba
in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of Master of Technology
(Construction Technology) degree.
AUGUST, 2018