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The study focused on maintenance management practice in public and private properties, (a case study of selected public and private housing estates) in Lagos state, Nigeria. To achieve this, case study of 10 selected housing estates were carried out by means of structured questionnaires. A total number of 200 questionnaires were administered to the selected estates and 141 were returned and used for the analysis, and this gave a response rate of 70.5%.
The statistical method used for the analysis is frequency, percentage, chart and mean score ranking. It assessed the maintenance and management state of the selected housing estates, the maintenance management problem of the estates, the maintenance management strategy used in maintaining the selected estate, and the effect of maintenance management strategy used in maintaining the estates. In achieving these objectives, opinions of maintenance staff and users of randomly selected housing estates were sampled through structured questionnaires. The data collected were analysed using descriptive statistics and statistical package for social science (SPSS 20). The analysis revealed the maintenance and management state of private housing estates in Lagos state as better maintained than public housing estates in Lagos state, there is significant difference in perception of the maintenance staff and users as to the maintenance state.
However, there is significant difference in the maintenance state of the private estate and the public estate as the study revealed that the functionality of components, services and infrastructure of the private estate are in better condition and well-maintained state than those of public estate. Maintenance staff’s ranked attitude of users and misuse of facilities as the most significant problem associated in maintenance management of estate while users of the estate ranked poor environmental condition, attitude of users and misuse of facilities and lack of discernible maintenance culture, unqualified maintenance contractors, lack of funding etc. in the country as the most significant problems of maintenance management practices of the estate.
The perception of the maintenance staff and users of the selected housing estates as regards to the problem of maintenance management of housing estates are significantly different. The study recommended proactive measures to keep hypothesized factors under check in other to overcome the prevailing maintenance problems of housing estates. Top management are to provide adequate funding for the running of maintenance operations and such funds should be properly monitored to ensure that it is judiciously utilized
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