title: Maintenance management practices at Sabah State Library Headquarters
creator: Siaw , Siew Kong
subject: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
description: The deterioration of assets or facilities far beyond their expected life are because lack of  maintenance being carried out after completed built up or during the period in which the  assets or facilities operating. Therefore, this study is aim to explore the effectiveness of  maintenance management practices in the building. All the process of this study is carried out  at Sabah State Library (SSL) Headquarters. The research instrument is applied in this study  that is the questionnaire form to collect data from the respondents. A total of 83 respondents  involved in this questionnaire, of which 53 respondents were from the employees of SSL  Headquarters while another 30 respondents were the visitors of SSL Headquarters. Besides,  semi-structured interview also has been adopted in this study with two officers of SSL  Headquarters. In doing so, it is to gain an in-depth understanding into maintenance  management practices at SSL Headquarters. The findings shows a very encouraging results on  the effectiveness of maintenance management practices at SSL Headquarters. Due to there are  only minor defect factors existed instead of major defect factors. But, there are still a room of  improvement to avoid major defect factors occur. As a result, recommendations are provided  for continuous improvement. In short, it can be concluded that the research objectives have  been achieved in this study. (Abstract by author)
publisher: Open University Malaysia
date: 2021
type: Other
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: text
identifier: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1433/1/library-document-1433.pdf
identifier:   Siaw , Siew Kong  (2021) Maintenance management practices at Sabah State Library Headquarters.  Open University Malaysia.    (Submitted)  
relation: https://library.oum.edu.my/repository/1433/