Assessment of Maintenance Cost of Buildings at Tertiary Institutions in Kwara State

Abstract

The maintenance of tertiary institution buildings in Nigeria as over time been faced with the issue of funding. Funding is not the only problem militating against the maintenance work of Nigeria tertiary institution buildings; cost overrun and underestimating also contribute to maintenance problem in tertiary institutions and this frequently result in failure of management to recognize the value and need for realistic budget and in return affect the maintenance work of tertiary institution buildings in Nigeria. This study focuses on the assessment of maintenance cost of buildings at tertiary institutions in Kwara State. The objective of the study were to: identify factors affecting maintenance cost of tertiary institutions buildings in Kwara State; examine the determinants of maintenance cost for buildings at the tertiary institutions under study; examine the maintenance budgets implementation strategy for execution of maintenance works at these tertiary institutions. To achieve these, 105 questionnaires were administered and 87 was recovered and analyzed using MIS, RII and one-way ANOVA. The study found that the most important factor affecting maintenance cost was building material with a Mean score of 4.70 and age of the building as the most important determinant of maintenance cost of tertiary institutions in kwara state with RII of 0.93. Condition assessment costs was also discovered the most significant in maintenance budget composition of tertiary institutions buildings with a mean of 4.45 and RII of 0.89 while Establishing priorities was discovered to be the most significant implementation strategy with a mean of 4.59 and RII of 0.92. Finally, a one-way between-groups analysis of variance was conducted to examine the maintenance budgets implementation strategies for execution of maintenance works at the institutions of study on effective cost estimation and allocation strategy. The result depicts no significant difference in relationship between Maintenance budget composition and Maintenance Budget Implementation