Quantitative Analysis of Criteria in University Building Maintenance in Malaysia
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">University buildings are a significant part of university assets and considerable resource...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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UTS ePRESS
2010-10-01
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| Series: | Australasian Journal of Construction Economics and Building |
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| Online Access: | https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/AJCEB/article/view/1681 |
| Summary: | <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;">University buildings are a significant part of university assets and considerable resources are committed to their design, construction and maintenance. The core of maintenance management is to optimize productivity and user satisfaction with optimum resources. An important segment in the maintenance management system is the analysis of criteria that influence building maintenance. Therefore, this paper aims to identify quantify, rank and discuss the criteria that influence maintenance costs, maintenance backlogs, productivity and user satisfaction in Malaysian university buildings. The paper reviews the related literature and presents the outcomes of a questionnaire survey. Questionnaires were administered on 50 university maintenance organizations. Thirty-one criteria were addressed to the university maintenance organizations to evaluate the degree to which each of the criteria influences building maintenance management. With a 66% response rate, it was concluded that the consideration of the criteria is critical to the university building maintenance management system. The quality of components and materials, budget constraints and the age of the building were found to be the most influential criteria but information on user performance satisfaction, problems associated with in-house workforce and shortage of materials and components were the least influential criteria. The paper also outlined that maintenance management is a strategic function in university administration. </span></span></p> |
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| ISSN: | 1835-6354 1837-9133 |