Study on construction and maintenance of telecommunication tower in Malaysia / Mohamad Rafizul Rosdi

In construction technology aspect, telecommunications tower is either important that the very structure to make sure effectiveness of communication process. Therefore, hence construction and maintenance aspect of telecommunications tower become more important. Maintenance works not made nicely can causing the cost repair jobs increase and comply contribute to the problem less satisfying coverage. A study of construction and maintenance telecommunications tower were carried out to study installation procedure telecommunications tower in a public place, study and identify damage to component tower that often occurs, identify damage causes stated and identify problems often face deep maintenance works. Interview and form questionnaire has been distributed to 3 case-study and just 37 respondent have responded which is 17 from first case-study, 10 from second case-study and 10 from the study third case. Data analysis using use index average method and from the study obtain, installation procedure tower in a public place is base agreement those made among land's owner and tenant. Tower component often damaged is parabolic disk, bolt and nuts and air traffic warning lamp. Main factors of damage are caused by bad climatic and weather factor and vandalism.