lagos – Concerned by the rate of deterioration of public buildings and even private properties as a result of lack of maintenance and the urgent need to address this development, a facilities maintenance expert has advocated a change in approach.
Engineer Afolabi Adedeji has stressed the importance of adopting the culture of maintenance of critical buildings spread across the country.
According to a facilities maintenance expert, over the years, most public buildings have, as a result of inadequate or complete lack of maintenance, become a 'public nuisance and national embarrassment'.
The Fellow of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) explained that in developed countries, most public buildings that are over 200 hundred years old are still looking 'smooth' because of the way they have been maintained over the years .
His words: “It is very unfortunate that our government at various levels enjoys constructing magnificent buildings all over the country, but the issue of maintenance of such buildings has been causing damage to those structures. Unless we start taking the issue of facility maintenance as an important aspect of our infrastructure development and national life, we will continue to see our buildings crumbling.
Adedeji said that for over two decades he has been at the forefront of addressing the need to adopt a culture of facility maintenance not only regarding public buildings but also some notable private properties.
He appealed to the owners of important buildings to have a change of heart in the New Year and said that if we adopt this culture, it will drastically reduce the number of abandoned properties scattered across the country.
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