Higher education building defect in Perak

Malaysia is one of the developing countries where many projects are being implemented especially in the construction industry. The construction industry is getting more modern, advanced and growing day by day. Despite that, problems such as building defects still occur. Defect is sometimes used as synonym with failure but the preferred meaning is to indicate only a deviation from some standard that may, but will not necessarily, result in failure. There are many type of defects that can be found in the construction industry in Malaysia. The types of defect can be grouped by the element such as external wall, internal wall, column, door, window, roof, ceiling, floor, and others. The aim of this is study to investigate the defect on higher educational buildings in Perak. This study uses observation and questionnaires to collect data from the respondents. For objective 1, the result from observation show the common defects found are cracks, dampness, flaking paintwork and plaster, fungus attacks are the most occurring type of defect in educational buildings in Perak. For objective 2 and objective 3, the questionnaires were distributed to 92 targeted respondents which are the maintenance team. In addition, the SPSS version 25 was utilized in analysing the collected data. Amongst the main reasons that causes defects are age of the building itself. The famous method to overcame the defect is doing inspection of the building and structure.