A Study on the Characteristics of Building Maintenance on Public Universities in Malang City

Maintenance of buildings is an activity that is carried out to keep away the building from damages in order to continue its function in accordance with the initial planning and design.This study analyzed the characteristics of building maintenance on three public universities in Malang City region; State University of Malang (UM), Islamic University of Malang (UIN Malang), and Polytechnic of Malang (Polinema). The building maintenance includes maintenance of building structures, architecture, and services (mechanical and electrical). This study was aimed to investigate: 1) the maintenance period; 2) the maintenance cost; 3) the maintenance priority; and 4) the correlation among the maintenance period, cost, and priority for each public universities in Malang. The method used is descriptive analysis. The data were obtained from questionnaires given to each university’s maintenance authority.