Building Maintenance Practice:A Construction Management Approach

An excellent practice of building maintenance management is greatly needed to increase the life cycle of the property and to minimize unexpected breakdowns or deterioration effects. Guidelines should be issued to all relevant bodies on the planning, execution and budgeting of maintenance requirements. This study tries to assess the building maintenance management practices presently implemented at Addis Ababa University (AAU) main campus. Accordingly, the study concluded that the building maintenance management practice currently implemented in AAU main campus has an average performance having a practice of mostly routine maintenance using own force system with corrective maintenance type. Shortage of qualified staff of building maintenance department; lack of trainings, training facilities and education; wrong behaviors of building users; lack of written building maintenance manuals and guidelines were identified as the major problems and challenges in their practice. The study also looked over that there is no well-organized and developed framework for the maintenance of buildings. Finally, the study was finished by developing building maintenance management framework for future.