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Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone

A proactive maintenance strategy is essential to help maintain buildings. Unfortunately, university buildings' maintenance is often overwhelmed by challenges like inadequate maintenance, growing maintenance backlogs, and insufficient funding. Inadequate funding for building maintenance, lack of...

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Main Authors:	Bah, A. U., Hamid, A. R. A., BaHutair, A. A. M. A., Hatem, Z. M., Yunus, R., Abba, N., Islam, M. S., Zadran, B. G., Aminudin, E., Zakaria, R.
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Published:	2023
Subjects:	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Online Access:	http://eprints.utm.my/108264/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0133074
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spelling	my.utm.1082642024-11-13T06:18:17Z http://eprints.utm.my/108264/ Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone Bah, A. U. Hamid, A. R. A. BaHutair, A. A. M. A. Hatem, Z. M. Yunus, R. Abba, N. Islam, M. S. Zadran, B. G. Aminudin, E. Zakaria, R. TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) A proactive maintenance strategy is essential to help maintain buildings. Unfortunately, university buildings' maintenance is often overwhelmed by challenges like inadequate maintenance, growing maintenance backlogs, and insufficient funding. Inadequate funding for building maintenance, lack of building maintenance standards, lack of preventive maintenance and lack of proper building maintenance strategy and policy are the major challenges that affect building maintenance efficiency. Therefore, to address the university's maintenance challenges, an effective maintenance strategy and policy are to be formulated. The aim of this study is to address the key challenges faced by maintenance staff. For this study, a quantitative technique was adopted to collect data via questionnaire survey from the university's maintenance department senior and junior personnel. The data collected were analysed using frequency analysis and the Average Index Formula (AIF). The findings were rated by the highest level of agreement and then presented in tables and figures. The findings revealed that, rapid respond to reported fault, followed by having adequate funding for maintenance were strongly agree. Also, the findings showed that, training maintenance personnel, planned preventive maintenance activities, and increasing awareness were other factors agreed as a strategy to address maintenance problem. Therefore, a sufficient budget should be set aside for maintenance tasks, with the utilization of resources closely monitored. It is vital to develop a maintenance policy and strategy as well as a proper asset management plan. 2023 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Bah, A. U. and Hamid, A. R. A. and BaHutair, A. A. M. A. and Hatem, Z. M. and Yunus, R. and Abba, N. and Islam, M. S. and Zadran, B. G. and Aminudin, E. and Zakaria, R. (2023) Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone. In: 4th International Conference on Civil and Environmental Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities in the Post-Covid 19 World: Towards a Resilient Nation, CENVIRON 2021, 9 December 2021-10 December 2021, Perlis, Malaysia. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0133074
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spellingShingle	TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Bah, A. U. Hamid, A. R. A. BaHutair, A. A. M. A. Hatem, Z. M. Yunus, R. Abba, N. Islam, M. S. Zadran, B. G. Aminudin, E. Zakaria, R. Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone
description	A proactive maintenance strategy is essential to help maintain buildings. Unfortunately, university buildings' maintenance is often overwhelmed by challenges like inadequate maintenance, growing maintenance backlogs, and insufficient funding. Inadequate funding for building maintenance, lack of building maintenance standards, lack of preventive maintenance and lack of proper building maintenance strategy and policy are the major challenges that affect building maintenance efficiency. Therefore, to address the university's maintenance challenges, an effective maintenance strategy and policy are to be formulated. The aim of this study is to address the key challenges faced by maintenance staff. For this study, a quantitative technique was adopted to collect data via questionnaire survey from the university's maintenance department senior and junior personnel. The data collected were analysed using frequency analysis and the Average Index Formula (AIF). The findings were rated by the highest level of agreement and then presented in tables and figures. The findings revealed that, rapid respond to reported fault, followed by having adequate funding for maintenance were strongly agree. Also, the findings showed that, training maintenance personnel, planned preventive maintenance activities, and increasing awareness were other factors agreed as a strategy to address maintenance problem. Therefore, a sufficient budget should be set aside for maintenance tasks, with the utilization of resources closely monitored. It is vital to develop a maintenance policy and strategy as well as a proper asset management plan.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Bah, A. U. Hamid, A. R. A. BaHutair, A. A. M. A. Hatem, Z. M. Yunus, R. Abba, N. Islam, M. S. Zadran, B. G. Aminudin, E. Zakaria, R.
author_facet	Bah, A. U. Hamid, A. R. A. BaHutair, A. A. M. A. Hatem, Z. M. Yunus, R. Abba, N. Islam, M. S. Zadran, B. G. Aminudin, E. Zakaria, R.
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title	Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone
title_short	Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone
title_full	Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone
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Strategies to address the main challenges faced by the maintenance personnel in the University of Sierra Leone

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