Bücher von Oteng Daniel

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2018 in the subject Engineering - Civil Engineering, grade: 3.65, , course: Estate Management, language: English, abstract: This study concentrates on identifying the challenges of maintenance of properties in public hospitals using Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) as a case study. It identifies the maintenance policies available in the hospital, assesses the effectiveness of maintenance policies, and identifies challenges associated with the maintenance practice and policies. In achieving these objectives, opinions of estate officers, out-sourced contractors and tenants were solicited by administering aquestionnaire to them and data were collected and analysed by using descriptive statistics. The study showed that the mode of maintenance management for the hospital is planned preventive maintenance. The study also revealed that the approach to maintenance of properties by KATH is the hybrid (that is the combination of both in-house and out-sourced contractors). Funding of maintenance activities in the hospital was by both Internally Generated Funds (IGF) and budgetary allocation for the year. In assessing the effectiveness of the maintenance policy, the study found out that building maintenance objectives which are the bases for developing maintenance policy must be considered in relation to organisations objectives and hence, ranked first (1st) as the most important factor in assessing the effectiveness of the maintenance policy of KATH's residential facilities. Training of maintenance personnel was ranked second (2nd) as personnel are trained in the form of workshops, seminars, and among others to keep them abreast with current property management of health facilities. Availability of adequate maintenance funding, and quick response to maintenance need of the building when old tenant moves for new tenant to occupy were both ranked 3rd. However, for the challenges associated with maintenance practice and policies, the study established that, the bureaucratic reporting process is the major challenge associated with maintenance practice and policies and hence, ranked first (1st). Financial delays were ranked second. In addition, contractual delays were ranked (3rd) Incompetent Staff was ranked fourth (4th). Also, the poor quality of materials and spare parts was identified as a challenge of maintenance and was ranked 5th. The lack of implementation of maintenance policy, lack of maintenance culture, and inefficient inventory system were challenges of maintenance in the hospital.

Diploma Thesis from the year 2013 in the subject Urban and Regional Planning, grade: 2.74, , course: Estate Management, language: English, abstract: Increasing rate of urbanisation and inadequate attention given by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Town and Country Planning Division, and Development Control Unit (Land Planning and Management Institutions), have led to the growth of unauthorised structures in Kumasi and it has affected spatial planning. This has destroyed the compatibility of various land uses, beauty, and health of the Metropolis. This project sought to find out the causes of unauthorised structures, identify the effect the growth of unauthorised structures, to examine the institutional arrangement for spatial planning, and to examine how the growth of unauthorised structures have affected spatial planning of Adum-Nsuase.A total number of 21 respondents were selected for the study. Questionnaires, interviews, and observations were used to collect information from the field. Factor analyses were used to establish the pattern of causes of growth of unauthorised structures in Adum-Nsuase. The sampling techniques that were adopted are; radom, snow ball and purposive sampling.The study found that, the causes of unauthorised structures in Adum-Nsuase are ignorance on building regulations and building permit on the part of landowners, increase in population, delays in approval of building permit, lack of sentisation by the KMA, the cost involved in acquiring building permit, and political and chieftaincy influences. Poor sanitation, armed robbery and theft, overcrowding, and noise making are the main challenges that occupants of Adum-Nsuase faces due to the construction of unauthorised structures. It is recommended that, Land Planning and Management Institutions have to embark on a massive sensitisation to the public on building regulation and building permit process. This will make the Metropolis achieve a compatible land uses us they have being aspiring for. The study recommended that, the Land Planning and Management Institutions have to be equipped with the needed resources to enable them function effectively. The Land Planning and Management Institutions have to be made autonomous, so that they can implement the law effectively without been under any undue influences and control.