A Bespoke Approach for Relating Building and Infrastructure Poor Performance to Inadequate Maintenance Management Policy Systems: Fid-Bau Portal

A Bespoke Approach for Relating Building and Infrastructure Poor Performance to Inadequate Maintenance Management Policy Systems

Musah, Abdul Razak / Vosloo, Derick / Draai, Wayne

Abstract

Assets maintenance management in accordance with the maintenance management policy systems remains a challenge not only nationally but globally. The research revealed that institutions are not complying with the practice of maintenance management policy systems. This is the gap the research aim to establish an improved maintenance management system for public high school buildings and other infrastructure based on standard practice as stipulated in the Department policy document. Literature shown that building and other infrastructure asset deterioration owned to inadequate maintenance. Quantitative methodology was employed in this research. The uThungulu District of KZN in South Africa was the selected geographical scope of this research. Thirty public high schools in the district were purposely selected for the study. The reasons include the proximity of the schools relative to where the researcher currently resides; resource constraints regarding the ability to fund transport costs to the various schools. The questions that were related to maintenance management policy systems, functional requirements of public high school buildings and other infrastructure were correlated with the data that were generated from the maintenance management stakeholders at the various institutions. The research revealed that most of the institutions do not comply with the existing National Education Infrastructure Management System and Provincial Maintenance Policy System and concluded that the majority (82.4%) of the respondents strongly agreed that maintenance conducted in accordance with policy documents enhances the functioning of the assets that satisfies users’ needs and expectations.