Abstract
Maintenance works is an important function in organizations with significant investment in
physical assets. This aids to prolong the life of these assets and plays an important role in
achieving organizational goals. Acknowledging the need of a systematic maintenance for
public buildings, this research therefore is seen as the vital approach to highlight and to assist
the improvement on the maintenance for public buildings. This research intents to integrate
two key elements, namely, the importance and the needs of the maintenance, with the aim of
developing an integrated framework for a systematic maintenance programme for public
buildings in Ghana. The study is a social research which is focused on obtaining perceptions
or opinions of the caretakers, maintenance experts and other stakeholders who are key in the
implementation of maintenance programmes for public buildings. The nature of this
investigation will be undertaken through a cross sectional survey design and will make use of
a mix of qualitative and quantitative research strategies. This study will be conducted in
government owned universities in Ghana. The research will be limited to respondents who
are involved in maintenance of these public universities. The respondents will represent
government departments, budget officers, maintenance officers, community consultants,
contractors, designers, engineers, project managers, town planners and cultural heritage
preservation experts. The involvement of multiple project stakeholders in this study will
provide in-depth views and aid validate the research findings. The study will employ both
probabilistic and non-probabilistic sampling techniques. Purposive sampling will be use to
narrow the sample frame to only universities owned by the government and used in selecting
the experts and other key stakeholders while systematic sampling will be used to select the
actual buildings from various universities to be analyzed...