Abstract: The Kenyan government has been providing free primary education since 2003. However, most of our primary schools were built up several decades ago, and the buildings exhibit numerous maintenance issues. The status of buildings in these institutions has been the subject of discussion by various stakeholders and the focus of various interventions, but about 14 years later the status seems not to have improved. This research project aimed at examining the determinants of successful completion of building maintenance projects: A case study of Westlands Sub-County. The research focused on Primary schools within Westlands Sub-County in Nairobi County. The target population was 20 Public Primary schools located within the sub-county. This comprised of 5 stakeholders per school thus head teacher, a member of the board of governors, a member of the parents’ teacher association, pupils’ representatives and the teacher in charge of maintenance in the school hence 100 respondents. Census survey was used since the population was not huge. The research was anchored on Project Management, Program and Control theories. Data were collected by use of semi-structured questionnaires. A pilot test was conducted to detect weakness in design and instrumentation and to provide proxy data for selection of a probability sample. The study generated qualitative and quantitative data due to the nature of the instrument. The researcher cleaned data after getting the questionnaires from the field. Data were merged and tabulated on tabulation sheets on SPSS version 23.0 (Statistical Package for Social Sciences) and Microsoft excel. Data were compared to establish any existing relationships or meaningful facts. Reporting of data was done through descriptive statistics including frequencies, means, standard deviation, and tables.
Keywords: Project, Maintenance, Project Planning.
Title: Determinants of Successful completion of Building Maintenance Projects in West lands Sub-County, Kenya
Author: Philip Macharia Wanjiru, Prof. Mike Amuhaya, Yusuf Muchelule
International Journal of Management and Commerce Innovations
ISSN 2348-7585 (Online)
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