Abstract
Public buildings are landed property developed and put in place by government using tax payer’s money to fulfill specific social and economic goals. The facilities within these public building are aid and devices, which makes it easy to do things within the public buildings. Such aids include electricity, telephone service, water system, sewage plant and waste disposal system, parking space, lifts and elevators, air conditioning system, ventilation, generating plants, to mention a few. There are wide ranges of facilities within Nigerian public building, each of these facilities needs proper maintenance and management to optimize their functional utilities. The significance of facilities management to public building cannot be over emphasized. The deplorable state of public buildings in Nigeria calls for concern. The reckless abandonment of public built assets without adequate and sustainable maintenance culture needs to be addressed urgently. The operation (expenses) cost of energy and security, repairs and maintenance are inevitably becoming more important to the performance of public buildings, hence there is need for integration of facilities management into the maintenance of buildings in Nigeria in order to for these properties to be able to operate at optimum level of efficiency.
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