Maintenance Management in Iraqi Government Buildings

Abstract

Due to the fact that the buildings in general and government buildings in particular, is considered as a national real estate wealth of high value, and to maintain these building, must carry out maintenance work to them. And the reality of the maintenance of government buildings in Iraq is not going according to the real system of management and lack of specialized cadres to carry out the tasks required in addition to the lack of incentives for workers in this area. This study aims to survey the reality of the maintenance of government buildings through the work of field visits for this purpose, as this study also aims to identify the causative factors of bad maintenance in government buildings and arrange them according to the degree of influence by use of interview with the experts technique, and attempt to solve the problem of mismanagement using Six Sigma technique. The results of this study, after Six Sigma technique was applied is identified (13) causative factors of bad maintenance in government buildings, where the following five factors i.e. inadequate allocation of funds for maintenance, lack of preparation of maintenance programs in the buildings, the qualifications and experience of maintenance work labors, lake of maintenance plans and lack of interest in the topic of maintenance by senior management) have most important, where constitutes around 45% of the problem. Then have been reached to a set of conclusions and recommendations for the purpose of ensuring the success of maintenance management in government buildings.

Keywords: Maintenance, Management Government, Buildings