A study on academic space condition at UiTM Perak (Case study: UiTM Seri Iskandar, UiTM Tapah, UiTM Teluk Intan) / Suhaimi Musani @ Mohd Mustakim

Construction sector rapidly growing sector in all the developed countries in the world. Malaysia is one of the countries that have a lot of construction activity for many sectors. Maintenance of the building is very necessary for any circumvent of damage especially in maintaining building assets. Academic building is one of the government buildings that require good maintenance work. System maintenance that used in every academic building is preventive maintenance and corrective maintenance. The condition of a hot and humid in the country which is heavy rainfall and warm sunshine are all year round. This in turn causes the academic buildings tend to weather promptly, especially the building materials which are exposed much deterioration of external elements. Therefore, each building will expose to the defect. Thus, the maintenance of the building needs to be done. When the defect occurs, the immediately action of maintenance needs to be done. This action can circumvent of high cost to repair the damage when it’s become critical stage. To achieve the objectives of the study, there were three (3) main objectives which are to classify common building defects and failures in education building, to establish and verify major contributing factors to building defects and failures on the education building, and to propose the best approach to mitigate and circumvent building defects and failures in education building. To collect the data, the acquisition methods were used which is questionnaire. The final result will show the respond of facility’s user for all of academic building condition.