Assessment of public building defects and maintenance practices: Cases in Mettu town, Ethiopia

Awasho, Taye  Tariku; Alemu, Shambel Kifle

doi:10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e15052

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“…In Ethiopia, main stakeholders such as consultants, contractors, and clients were the respondents of the questionary survey by Awasho & Alemu [50]. The authors used the survey to gather primary data.…”

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Lessons Learned from Different Types of Building Defect Information Sources

Berg Oppedal,

Kvande

2024

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Building defects are very prevalent and contribute significantly to a building's economic value. There are numerous information sources on building defects that have a lot potential for learning more about building defects. This study aimed to identify the information sources used in previous building defect studies and to identify the motivation for carrying out such studies. To fulfil this aim a scoping study was carried out. The information sources identified included insurance companies, private databases, questionnaire surveys, lawsuits, building surveys, client complaint forms, and maintenance reports. This study found that insurance company and client complaint forms include the largest collection of real building defect cases, but such databases may lack detailed descriptions of the causes of the defects. The main purposes of building defects studies identified here included design challenges, identification of defects, building maintenance management, quality management, systematization in data collection, providing an overview of typical defects, and classifying defects. Identification was found to be the most common purpose, indicating that the industry wants to learn more. This study identified research gaps in the climate perspective in relation to building defects. Most of the studies focused on the economical perspective, and none focused on the carbon footprint perspective.

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“…Another study by Awasho & Alemu [50] evaluated building maintenance procedures and building defects in Mettu building projects in Ethiopia. The study found that the top three effects of building defects were project delays, high maintenance costs, and reputational damage.…”

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Lessons Learned from Different Types of Building Defect Information Sources

Berg Oppedal,

Kvande

2024

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“…In Ethiopia, main stakeholders such as consultants, contractors, and clients were the respondents of the questionary survey by Awasho and Alemu [51]. The authors used the survey to gather primary data.…”

Section: Questionnaire Surveysmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Another study by Awasho and Alemu [51] evaluated building maintenance procedures and building defects in Mettu building projects in Ethiopia. The study found that the top three effects of building defects were project delays, high maintenance costs, and reputational damage.…”

Section: Building Maintenance Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lessons Learned from Information Sources on Building Defect Studies

Berg Oppedal,

Kvande

2024

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Building defects are very prevalent and contribute significantly to a building’s economic value. There are numerous information sources on building defects that have significant potential for learning more about building defects. This study aimed to identify the information sources used in previous building defect studies and to identify the motivation for carrying out such studies. To fulfil this aim, a scoping study was carried out. The information sources identified included insurance companies, private databases, questionnaire surveys, lawsuits, building surveys, client complaint forms, and maintenance reports. This study found that insurance company and client complaint forms include the largest collection of real building defect cases, but such databases may lack detailed descriptions of the causes of the defects. The main purposes of building the defects studies identified here included design challenges, identification of defects, building maintenance management, quality management, systematization in data collection, providing an overview of typical defects, and classifying defects. Identification was found to be the most common purpose, indicating that the industry wants to learn more. This study identified research gaps in the climate perspective in relation to building defects. Most of the studies focused on the economical perspective, and none focused on the carbon footprint perspective. This study provides an overview of information sources, which can motivate stakeholders to collaborate in learning about the physical causes of building defects as well as about other key aspects such as fault, finances consequences, and procedural causes.

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“…No wonder [9], in their research, expressed that most public buildings in Nigeria are in a state of rapid deterioration due to lack of maintenance culture. Public buildings in Nigeria wear ugly look due to various forms of defects which [10] de ned as any characteristics development in building component that hinders its functional requirements, for which it was conceived, designed and constructed, and [11] in the same vein, de ned defect as a de cit in any building component that forestalls its optimal function to meet the desired occupancy requirements.…”

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Evaluating Building Defects and Maintainability of Tertiary Institutions in Owerri Metropolis, Nigeria

Nwankwo,

Victoria

2024

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Institutional building should provide conducive environment that would enable staff and students perform optimally. This functional requirement is sustainable through maintenance. A cognizance survey through tertiary institutions in Owerri metropolis, revealed alarming rate of building defects. The research is aimed at evaluating these defects and their maintainability, with a view to recommending appropriate solutions for overall improvement. The objectives were to: determine the nature and extent of defects; concepts that are not in line with design for maintainability; mode of maintenance; limiting factors; and consequences of delayed maintenance. A case study of randomly selected buildings from the five tertiary Institutions in Owerri was adopted. Copies of structured questionnaire were administered to a sample size of 153 respondents in-charge of maintenance, using stratified systematic random sampling technique. Analysis of responses was done using descriptive and quantitative statistics. The findings revealed wrong design decisions that contributed to the defects and high maintenance frequency, such as climatic-non-compliant design concept, inaccessibility of building components, and wrong specifications. Maintenance delay caused: decline in capital value, disruption of work flow, risk of users health and safety, high cost of repairs, post-occupancy modification and acceleration of building failure. Major obstacles were: lack of maintenance culture; improper supervision; and under-funding. The paper recommended that: designers should adopt design concept responsive to tropical climate; government should increase the intervention fund giving to the institutions; while the legislature enacts laws to regulate and create awareness of maintenance culture.

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Assessment of public building defects and maintenance practices: Cases in Mettu town, Ethiopia

Cited by 14 publications

References 17 publications

Lessons Learned from Different Types of Building Defect Information Sources

Lessons Learned from Different Types of Building Defect Information Sources

Lessons Learned from Information Sources on Building Defect Studies

Evaluating Building Defects and Maintainability of Tertiary Institutions in Owerri Metropolis, Nigeria

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