ASSESSMENT OF BUILDING MAINTENANCE PRACTICES ON RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN MAKURDI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, BENUE STATE
1Momngu Daniel Tiough & 2Terhemen Thomas Hwande
1Department of Vocational and Technical Education, Benue State University Makurdi
2Department of Building, Saint Joseph Science and Technical College Makurdi
Email: emmyterk@gmail.com
ABSTRACT
The study assessed building maintenance practices in residential buildings in Makurdi local government area of Benue state. To guide the study, three (3) research questions were stated while three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adapted survey research design. A total population of 4424 was used for the study. The sample comprised of 367 respondents drawn from the population using Yaro Yemen formula and disproportionate stratified random sampling technique. A self-developed questionnaire titled ABMPRB was used as instrument for data collection. The instrument was validated by five experts. The reliability coefficient of the study was .882. Data collected for the study was analyzed using Descriptive statistics of Mean and Standard deviation, t-test was used in testing the hypotheses. This was done with the aid of SPSS at 0.05 level of significance. The study establish that maintenance practices is not been proficiently carried out by occupants and building professionals on residential buildings. The study shows no significant difference between the mean responses of occupants and building professionals on preventive, corrective and predictive to improve on maintenance practices on residential buildings. The study mainly recommended the need for public occupant to embrace preventive maintenance practice as a high priority rather than waiting for corrective maintenance and also a regulation to effect maintenance of specific building systems
