ASSESING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF MAINTENANCE PRACTICES IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
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European International Journal of Science and Technology
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The Maintenance management sector in public section in Nigeria has suffered from lack of funds and
negligence for a period of time. The education sector was not spare of the menace as well; huge amount of
money is often invested in the provision of infrastructure in the sector while the aspect of maintenance is
often neglected. Therefore in this study assessment of the effectiveness of maintenance practices in public
schools was carried out using Kaduna state of Nigeria as case study. The sampling survey was limited to the
existing institution. A total of eighty (80) questionnaires were administered. Eighty (80) copies of the drafted
and approved questionnaires were administered with the aim of achieving the following: To assess the
operational (physical-functional condition) of public schools in Kaduna state as carried out by the
maintenance department. Mean item score and simple percentage was used to process the data. To examine
the effectiveness of maintenance practices strategy used in maintaining the buildings. To determine the
prevailing method of executing maintenance practices and study its efficiency either by direct labour or
contract. To ascertain the factors that militates against. From data analysis. It was observed that lack of
proper phasing of maintenance workload can give rise to uneconomical maintenance management practice.
It was also observed from analysis, that some major variables lead to the inefficiency and in effectiveness of
the maintenance projects includes: the occurrence of poor contract management, lack of availability of
materials and the incidence of in accurate estimate.
KEY WORDS: Maintenance, Practice, Effective, Assess.
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T Technology (General), TH Building construction