A Review of Factors Affecting Maintenance Procedure, Time and Maintenance Culture of Public Buildings in Developing Countries: A Matrix Analysis Concept

Abstract

The objectives of governments in developing countries to provide infrastructure to solve social and economic problems are invariably thwarted by poor or lack of maintenance of these structures as evidenced by maintenance-culture lapses from countries or communities. Both the user and economic values are truncated most often and assets are left to waste. The study aims at reviewing from empirical sources, factors affecting maintenance procedure, its time, and maintenance culture and finding an innovative way to bring poor maintenance culture under control. The methodology included a review of conference papers, journals, magazines and brochures of organisations on maintenance. Relative importance indices of both maintenance procedure, time, and culture in organisations were sourced from two border countries. As a result, administrative issues, the building's age, technological flaws, and a lack of interest in future maintenance considerations influenced the maintenance technique and time. Lack of leadership, communication, involvement, teamwork, and other factors have all been identified as contributing to the bad maintenance culture. The study concludes that a matrix model should be built to juxtapose the two topics and discover remedies to the inadequate maintenance culture. Organisations are encouraged to develop charts to cover maintenance procedures, their time and maintenance culture on notice boards to allocate tasks and responsibilities to teams and individuals at the helm of affairs of maintenance.