Post occupancy defects in public office buildings in Nairobi city the causes and ratings
Date
2013-05Author
Ochieng, Raphael
Wanyona, George
Diang’a, S.O
Language
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An insight into the budgets for maintenance programmes for Public Office Buildings in Kenya and many
other d eveloping countries reveals budgetary deficits leading to ever increasing defects backlog. The
major consequence of this sad situation is the unchecked deteriorated state of the public office
buildings stock resulting to disruption of delivery of public services through equipment breakdowns
and/or building element or component failures. The aim of this study is therefore to determine and rate
causes of common buildings defects with a view of formulating appropriate strategies for managing
them. The common buildings defects were established through inspections of sampled public office
buildings located in the Nairobi City. A qualitative research strategy was crafted to obtain perceptions of
sampled maintenance experts in the public sector on eight possible ca uses of buildings defects. The
ranking of the eight possible causes was analysed in a Likert Scale of 1 in 8 through computation of the
mean item scores. The findings established that poor supervision, negligence, vandalism and design
deficiency are major contributors to common defects. The findings are expected to aid policy makers
put in place preventive strategies to address the root causes of common defects with the purpose of
drastically minimizing scope of defects and maintenance budgets
Publisher
University of Nairobi