THE USE OF ARCHITECTURAL COMPONENTS IN MINIMISING MAINTENANCE FOR KADUNA STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENT CENTRE, KAFANCHAN.

📄 Project Abstract

Due to the educational growth and technological advancement in the world, new ideas and innovations are developing in maintaining buildings most especially student centre. Which are difficult to maintain due to the nature of users and the population it accommodates. In Nigeria minimising maintenance problems in buildings demands the creation of spaces and specifying building materials which will minimise maintenance right from the design stage. Even in the developed countries, maintaining student centre buildings is a difficult task especially because the building designers could not proffer solutions to the maintainability of every building component, some of the major causes of building deterioration includes bad design, faulty construction, improper maintenance measures and most importantly the integration of maintenance design considerations and features in student centre, In order to determine the extent to which this was reflected in the design of Kaduna state University Student ...