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Maintenance Culture of Residents in Some Selected Low Cost Housing Estate in Lagos State

IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
Conference · Vol. 665 · Issue 1 · Art. 012074
Abstract

Building infrastructures is part of what provides people with shelter, protection and comfort in a country. It is one of the major factors for survival and wellbeing of people. It is therefore very important that the facilities of buildings be constantly preserved and maintained well to meet up with occupants satisfaction therefore meeting the purpose for which they were built and developed. for. The sample size is the total number of observations, population elements of sampling unit that are selected for investigation in the study. The sample size of this study was developed from 3 selected low cost housing estate within Lagos and a relatively 75 questionnaires was distributed to various residents for evaluation of maintenance practice. The following facts were discovered in the study that low grade materials are mostly used in construction of low cost building which leads to major deterioration in component of the building, poor contribution of professionals and stakeholders in the construction industry to training programs and strategies from the factors for the good maintenance practices were insignificant among others. The study further recommend the following facts: Training and retraining of artisans and craftsmen should be embraced an essential strategy, construction firms should invest in the training and retraining of their craftsmen to promote optimum performance while construction professionals and stakeholders should contribute to the skills acquisition programmes both onsite and offsite © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Sustainable development Construction Construction industry Maintenance Training program Costs Skills acquisition Deterioration Housing Surveys Construction firms Construction professionals Low cost housing Low grade materials Maintenance practices Optimum performance
Author Affiliations
Covenant University, Ota, Ogun, Nigeria
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