Maintenance Task as a Responsibility of a Professional Builder
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This paper begins with a broad definition of building maintenance and an overview of its importance to
all and sundry.
It lays emphasis on the works and services department/maintpnance sections of some of government
establishments in three key states of the south western part of the country namely Oyo, Osun and
Ondo. This is also drne in such a way that it cuts across all the three arms of government · Federal,
State and Local via the distribution of questionnaires and direct contact with the Directors of Works and
Services and heads of maintenance units of these ministries/parastatals. Fifteen government
establishments were covered in each state thereby bringing the total number to forty·five and this is
with a view to finding the adequacy of representation of Professional Builders in the Works and
Services/Maintenance sec.tions of these parastatals as well as the negative effect which the absence
of these key professionals !Builders) might bring to the development of maintenance culture in the
country.
The results Indicated that 25 out of the 45 Directors of Wor~s and Services interviewed representing
55.56% are civil engineers while only 4 representing 8.89% are builders and out of these just two are
Corporate Members of NIOB. On the other hand, 16 out of 45 heads of departments of the
maintenance units representing 35.55% are civil engineers while 8 are builders and out of these only
three are Corporate Members.
This paper then concludes by offering suggestion on what the government, builders' registration council
and the professional builders themselves can do sq as to give maintenance work the priority it deserves
as well as having adequate representation of professional builders in the government establishments
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TH Building construction