ASSESSMENT OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM ON PUBLIC EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS LOCATED IN EASTERN ETHIOPIA

Abstract

Buildings in public universities require a plan for the conservation and renovation of their numerous structures and their management. Maintenance works are an important function in universities with significant investments in physical assets and play an important role in achieving organizational goals. The success or failure of the system for managing maintenance may be judged by the maintenance condition of the system. Therefore, this research aims to assess the maintenance management system used and to evaluate the factors influencing building maintenance management implementation in these public universities. Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the study statistics, like frequency and percentage, correlation tests were used also Chi-square test with p < 0.05 were used considered statistically significant for all the independent variables. These universities exercised corrective maintenance with very limited planned preventive maintenance and factors influencing maintenance implementation are training programs for newly recruited employees, lack of well-defined documents, work requests received and lack of computerized system, and documentation of all maintenance activities, these factors have a significant effect for maintenance implementation on the maintenance system. Maintenance departments should have to be well organized in manpower and material according to the demand of the university building, start to implement preventive maintenance is recommendable even if on small scale in getting better building conditions other than fixing what is damaged.The corrective maintenance should be done early as the defect apears and they need to incorporate a planned preventive maintenance strategy in the annual maintenance works program, formulate and document their maintenance policy, and strategic maintenance plan for effective and efficient management of building maintenance works.