Development of Maintenance Culture Model in
Malaysian Local Authorities
Suwaibatul Islamiah Abdullah Sani
1
, Nurhayati Khair
2
, Junainah Mohamad
1
1
Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying,
Universiti Teknologi MARA Perak Branch, Seri Iskandar Campus, Perak, Malaysia
2
Building and Property Management, Faculty of Accountancy and Management,
Universit Tunku Abdul Rahman, Sungai Long, Malaysia
sislamiah26@gmail.com, mjunainah@uitm.edu.my
Abstract
Infrastructure development is fundamental to the success of a country to achieve the status of the
developed nation. However, the development made is deemed to be unsuccessful without a high
culture of maintenance to maintain the existing infrastructure. Nevertheless, the effort is unworthy since
the performance level for the maintenance of an immovable asset in Malaysia, especially those that
belong to Local Authorities are still at an inadequate level. Local Authorities hold a large number of
facilities that place demands on resources. The purpose of this research was carried to produce a
structural model for developing of maintenance culture in Malaysian local authorities.
Keywords: maintenance culture; measurement model; structural model
eISSN 2398-4295 © 2019. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House,
Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-
nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour
Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-
Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.
http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v4i15.170