Purpose

The study investigated the perceived causes of structural failure of public buildings, frequency of stability checks, stability checking procedures, measures to enhance public building stability checks and the roles of facility managers in the Accra Metropolis of Ghana.

Design/methodology/approach

Following a comprehensive literature review, the study employed a structured questionnaire survey and gathered the opinions of sixty-seven facility managers on the facility management practices. Following statistical pretesting of the dataset for reliability, distribution and agreement among the responses, the study analysed the dataset using mean scoring and weighted analysis.

Findings

The analysis showed that external building inspectors rarely inspect stability checks of the studied public buildings in Accra. It is also found that both reactive and proactive stability checking protocols are implemented in public buildings in Accra, but inadequate knowledge of facility managers limits technical stability checks. The study further revealed that stability checks of public buildings can be enhanced through incorporating site and location conditions into the design early upfront, active engagement of facility managers in the design and construction of public buildings, adequate budgetary provisioning for planned maintenance of public buildings, and encouraging appropriate use of public buildings.

Originality/value

This paper, to the best of the authors' knowledge, represents the first attempt to comprehensively examine the causes of structural failure of public buildings, frequency of stability checks, stability checking procedures, measures to enhance public building stability checks and the roles of facility managers in Ghana, from the perspective facility management.

中文翻译：

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加纳公共建筑倒塌、稳定性检查和设施管理人员的角色

目的

该研究调查了公共建筑结构故障的感知原因、稳定性检查的频率、稳定性检查程序、加强公共建筑稳定性检查的措施以及加纳阿克拉大都市设施管理人员的作用。

设计/方法/方法

在全面查阅文献之后，该研究采用结构化问卷调查，并收集了 67 位设施管理人员对设施管理实践的意见。在对数据集的可靠性、分布和响应之间的一致性进行统计预测试之后，该研究使用平均评分和加权分析来分析数据集。

发现

分析表明，外部建筑检查员很少检查阿克拉所研究公共建筑的稳定性检查。还发现在阿克拉的公共建筑中实施了被动和主动稳定性检查协议，但设施管理人员的知识不足限制了技术稳定性检查。研究进一步表明，通过提前将场地和位置条件纳入设计，设施管理人员积极参与公共建筑的设计和施工，为公共建筑的计划维护提供足够的预算拨款，以及鼓励合理使用公共建筑。

原创性/价值

据作者所知，本文首次尝试全面考察公共建筑结构失效的原因、稳定性检查的频率、稳定性检查程序、加强公共建筑稳定性检查的措施以及设施管理人员的作用。在加纳，从设施管理的角度来看。