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DOI:10.1108/JEDT-11-2019-0303
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Maureen Ofoegbu
Edinburgh Napier University University of Uyo
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valid feedback on which universities can build upon to improve conditions of their
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Post-occupancy evaluation of University of

Uyo buildings
University of Uyo buildings
Dubem Ikediashi
Department of Building, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
Godfrey Udo
Department of Estate Management, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria, and Received 21 November2019
Revised 12 January2020
Maureen Ofoegbu Accepted 3 February2020
Department of Building, University of Uyo, Uyo, Nigeria
Abstract
Purpose – This study aims to evaluate the performance of buildings in the University of Uyo using the
post-occupancy evaluation (POE) technique.
Design/methodology/approach – A quantitative questionnaire survey is adopted in which 333 copies
of a validated questionnaire are administered to academic, administrative and maintenance staff and some
students who occupy four buildings used for the survey. However, 124 valid responses are received giving a
response rate of 37per cent. Data collected are analysed using descriptive and inferential statistical tools while
the Kruskal Wallis chi-square ( x 2) test is used to analyse hypotheses postulated for the study.
Findings – Findings reveal that the General Administration (GA) building has high ratings in five technical
performance criteria of ambient level of sound in offices, the integrity of materials used for walls, and
correctness of stair risers, threads in the building quality of lighting and quantity of lighting. Findings on the
functional performance of GA building show that cleaning, friendliness, parking space, landscaping and
indoor climate are the top five rated. Findings also reveal that lack of awareness about POE is a top-rated
barrier, followed bya lack of orientation ofstakeholders and a lack of adequately trained staff.
Originality/value – The study contributes to the body of knowledge onPOE, particularly in universities
by conducting an empirical evaluation of both technical and functional performance of the University of Uyo
buildings. Besides, it establishes a set of factors that significantly hinder the implementation of POEs in
universities. From a practice perspective, it provides valid feedback on which universities can build upon to
improve conditions of their facilities and ultimately bolster the conducive environment for teaching and
learning.
Keywords Nigeria, Barriers, Performance evaluation, University buildings,
Functional performance, Technical performance
Paper type Research paper
Introduction
One of the important steps towards improving performance is to establish the quality of
what is available or has been provided and this can only be done through measurement of
performance (Koleoso et al., 2013). To put this in perspective, Varcoe (1996) pointed out that
“what gets measured gets done”. This was supported by Teicholz (2003), who asserted that
“one cannot improve what one cannot measure”. Performance measurement improves the
performance of both existing and proposed buildings by identifying the downsides in their
performance through measurement. It is a tool used by facility managers and other Journal of Engineering, Design
and Technology
stakeholders alike in the facilities management industry to bridge the gap between the © Emerald Publishing Limited
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process has performed its functions
by comparison with a known standard (McDougall et al., 2002). Performance measurement
provides information on the satisfaction of users, monitoring progress, driving change,
benchmarking processes and activities. Post-occupancy evaluation (POE) is one of the many
performance measurement tools developed to assist facilities managers and other
stakeholders. According to Turpin-Brooks and Viccars (2006), POE is a performance
evaluation tool used to examine the extent to which a building or facility in-use meets the
needs of its end-users while also recognising ways in which design, performance and fitness
for purpose can be enhanced. This implies that a building or facility must be designed to
achieve a particular performance benchmark with which it can be measured. Cooper (2001)
had argued that if a building is designed and constructed with new systems in new ways
with unknown outcomes, and yet has no feedback mechanism in place, it is safe to say that it
effectively remains a prototype.
Previous studies on the POE of university buildings, in general, have shown that it
should be an integral part of any construction or remodelling project (Horgen and Sheridan,
1996). University buildings are capital intensive investments that should be regularly
evaluated to ascertain its service quality because one argues that a workplace of good
quality promotes quality life. In other words, university facilities that meet their technical
and functional quality performance benchmarks will no doubt promote the right enabling
environment for teaching and learning. This is supported by the widely held view that
physical environment of institutions like universities should be catered for, as academic
productivity to a large extent depends on quality of available facilities and supporting
services (Adewunmi et al., 2011). Besides, it is argued that effective and efficient strategic
facilities management of a university is a function of the state of physical assets of the
educational institution while successful and consistent POEs will potentially influence
strategic planning, development and improved efficiency in policy formulation and decision
making (Housley, 1997; Asiabaka, 2008).
Facilities management has arguably been described as a slowly evolving concept in
Nigeria. However, poor maintenance culture has been a widely recognised problem and has
negatively affected quality of public buildings and facilities-in-use (Mbamali, 2003). This is
even as buildings are designed, constructed and handed over to clients without any
modality or mechanism in place to manage feedback from end-users of the facilities. A major
consequence of this is that contractors execute shoddy jobs, as there is no post-evaluation
system that could have made them accountable for any defective work. It is even more
disturbing in Nigeria’s universities where apparent decay and lack of maintenance have
often led to students and staff’s agitations and unrest. A report by the National Universities
Commission (NUC) (2006) on thevisitation panel that looked into the operations of all federal
universities between 1999 and 2003 reveals that both academic and physical facilities at the
universities were in deplorable states. This study argues that post-occupancy examination
is important in bridging this gap and will invariably bolster the successful and sustainable
management of building facilities in universities. Few studies have been carried out on POE
within the context of Nigeria while relatively less has been conducted within the context of
Nigerian universities. In one of those studies on POE of postgraduate hostel facilities in
University of Lagos, Adewunmi et al. (2011) in a user satisfaction survey discovered that
respondents were satisfied with cleanliness, lighting, temperature in the building, comfort
level, natural ventilation, visual privacy, amount of space, conveniences, car parking, fire
safety, security and air quality. Besides, Tijani (2007) discovered that there was
overcrowding in the University of Lagos undergraduate hostels, poor electricity supply and
sanitary conditions. However, these studies only examined the satisfaction of students in
hostels ignoring the interest of other stakeholders such as teaching and non-teaching staff University of
within a university community. To date, there has not been any reported POE done in Uyo buildings
the University of Uyo. This research addressed these gaps exploring the technical
performance and functional performance of some recently completed buildings including
the administrative edifice housing the principal staff of the university. The barriers to
effective POE within the context of Nigerian universities were also not addressed in
previous studies. This was done in this study to bridge the gap between service quality and
user satisfaction of end-users.
Given the background above, the aim of the study is to evaluate the performance of the
University of Uyo buildings using some selected buildings at the main campus of
the University of Uyo. This is with a view towards generating feedback that would help in
the design and management of user expectations on the quality performance of university
facilities.
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 assess the technical performance of some selected buildings at the University of
Uyo;
 assess the functional performance of some selected buildings at the University of
Uyo; and
 examine barriers affecting POEs of university facilities.
Literature review
Previous studies on post-occupancy evaluation in schools
Several studies have reported the use of POEs in school facilities. In one of such, Adewunmi
et al. (2011) used 29 performance indicators to conduct a POE for a hostel facility at the
University of Lagos, Nigeria. Using a questionnaire survey and interview, findings from the
study showed satisfaction with 12 out of the 29 indicators used for the survey. Armijo et al.
(2011) conducted a POE on 8 schools in Chile using 4 performance indicators of thermal
comfort, visual comfort, acoustic comfort andindoor air quality in 14 classrooms.The study
discovered several problems with facilities in the schools evaluated. More recently, Wheeler
and Malekzadeh (2015) used an integrated POE approach that involved teachers, staff,
students and community members to assess the quality of service in three secondary
schools in the UK with a view towards improving their performance. The study identified
several concerns that pertain to the design of schools, energy use awareness, functional
performance and comfort of users.
The general conclusion in these and other studies is that POE is a veritable tool for
gathering feedback for school authorities. The feedbacks come in the form of prompt
identification of building defects and remedial actions for them, rational analysis of
consequences of decisions made during the design and operation of school facilities, and
accurate allocation of maintenance budgets based on the current post-occupancy conditions
of school buildings. These are some of the benefits the University of Uyo stands to get from
the outcome of this study.
Performance criteria for post-occupancy evaluation

The functional performance addresses the functionality and efficiency level of features in
university buildings and facilities. Functional elements include space, comfort,
serviceability, safety, amenity, aesthetic and image value, operational cost and lifecycle cost.
These elements are directly connected to the activities within a building. They are required
JEDT to be in conformity to the specific needs of the occupants. This direct connection between a
building’s functional aspects and the needs ofits users is probably the reason for its receipt
of noteworthy attention in POE studies (Sanni-Anibire et al., 2016 ).
Technical performance elements deal with survival attributes, such as structure,
sanitation, fire safety and security (security: the degree of resistance to or protection from
harm; fire safety: fire resistance of the major structural elements of a building, fire
extinguishment and containment, flame spread, smoke generation, the toxicity of burning
materials and the ease of egress in case of a fire), ventilation and health (Preiser et al., 1988).
From an environmental perspective, technical performance addresses the issue of indoor
environmental quality (IEQ), which affects the comfort, health and productivity of
occupants (Choi et al., 2012). IEQ elements include thermal comfort (HVAC system and
natural ventilation system), indoor air quality, visual comfort (the quantity and quality of
lighting, glare, control of shadows, luminance and adequate luminance) and acoustical
comfort (acoustic comfort relates primarily to providing conditions in a building that
facilitate clear communication of speech between its occupants). Noise control can be
provided through walls, floors, windows and doors that provide adequate reduction of
sound from adjacent activities (Hassanain, 2008; Sanni-Anibire et al., 201 6).
Theoretical framework
In a study on residential satisfaction in students’ housing, Amole (2009) used bedroom social
and place qualities, hostel design, social densities in the hostel, storage and room furnishing,
floor levels; hostel maintenance; conveniences; hostel facilities; laundry; balcony; hostel
management; and location to examine the level of satisfaction of students with quality of
services in their hostels. Hassanain (2007) used thermal, acoustic; visual comfort; and indoor
air quality to examine IEQ of a student housing facility in Saudi Arabia. Also, Hassanain
(2008) used five indicators
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housing facilities in a school in Saudi Arabia. The five technical indicators were thermal
comfort; acoustic comfort; visual comfort; indoor air quality; and fire safety while the five
functional requirements included: interior and exterior finish systems; room layout and
furniture quality; support services; efficiency of circulation; and proximity to other facilities
on campus. Adewunmi et al. (2011) used 29 performance indicators to conduct a POE for a
hostel facility at the University of Lagos, Nigeria. These were used as theoretical
frameworks for functional and technical performance evaluation of the University of Uyo
buildings.
Barriers affecting post-occupancy evaluation

The reasons why POE’s are not carried out with any regularity are well documented by a
number of literary sources, which suggests a growing frustration with the lack of progress
toward POE becoming a mainstream activity in the process of building procurement
(Zimmerman and Martin, 2001). The following were identified in the literature as the
barriers to conducting POE:
 Costs of undertaking POE and the resources required to successfully complete the
process (Bordass and Leaman 2005);
 Lack of orientation for facilities managers, architects, building consultants and
clients on the benefits of adopting POEs. A study of the use of POE in banking
facilities by Agagu (2006) showed that there is a lack of orientation of FM providers
on the difference between traditional property maintenance and user-focussed
facility maintenance;
 Lack of orientation of users on the importance of their cooperation and feedback University of
during the evaluation process; Uyo buildings
 Many facilities managers are not involved in building projects right from the
conception stage. Although they are professionals who are familiar with the need
for contact with users, they are unable to contribute to the design of such buildings.
Thus, suggestions to ensure that clients and users get the best from their buildings
are lacking;
 Further, there is inadequate enforcement of regulations needed to ensure that
building conditions are improved;
 Managers, especially in the public sector, do not have access to sufficient funds to
manage the buildings under their portfolio;
 Defending professional integrity (Vischer, 2001);
 Time and skills (Zimmerman and Martin, 2001);
 Resources required to successfully complete the process litigation for
underperforming buildings (Turpin-Brooks and Viccars, 2006); and
 Lack of overall awareness by all stakeholders (Hadjri and Crozier, 2009).
These are adopted as a theoretical framework for this study and were subjected to the views
of respondents.
Research methodology
Research design
Given the nature of the research problem, this study adopted a quantitative method
approach anchored on a quantitative field survey involving the use of a structured
questionnaire. Quantitative research design deals with numbers and anything that is
measurable in a systematic way of investigation of phenomena and their relationships. It is
used to answer questions on relationships within measurable variables with an intention to
explain, predict and control a phenomena (Leedy, 1993).
Study area
The study area for this research is the main campus of the University of Uyo, Uyo in Akwa
Ibom State, Nigeria. The University of Uyo was founded by the Federal Government of
Nigeria in 1991 and metamorphosed from the then University of Cross River State, which
was established in 1983 by the then Cross River State Government (uniuyo.edu.ng).
According to information available at the university’s website (uniuyo.edu.ng), the
university, which is located at the heart of Uyo, capital of Akwa Ibom State, runs a multi-
campus
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area of about 1,443 ha, currently accommodating the administrative building, faculty of
engineering (FOE) and science, postgraduate school (PGS) and some student hostels; Town
campus, which accommodates faculty of arts, basic medical sciences, education, social
sciences, pharmacy and school of continuing education; and town campus annex, which
accommodates the faculty of agriculture, business administration, faculty of law,
environmental studies and directorate of general studies. Over the years, the university has
progressively moved some of its faculties and administrative departments hitherto in the
town campus to the main campus situated at Nwaniba road end of the city of Uyo, Akwa
Ibom state capital. This study examined both the technical and functional performance of
some of the faculties and administrative departments recently moved to the main campus.
JEDT Population of the study

The population of this study was the university community while the sample frame
included both academic, administrative and technical/maintenance staff, as well as students
for four buildings targeted for the study. The buildings are the one’s housing:
 the PGS;
 the faculty of science (FOS);
 the FOE; and
 the general administration building also called the senate building in most
universities.
They were selected out of the very many buildings at the main campus because they form
part of the most recently completed facilities at the main campus. Besides, it was easier to
establish a number of academic and non-academic staff through the faculty officers. Below
is a brief description of the four buildings:
(1) General administration (GA) building.
The GA building is a three-storey building with a central atrium that overlooks the
reception lobby. The office of the vice-chancellor and staff is situated on the third
floor, while the second floor houses the offices of the two deputy vice-chancellors
(academic and administration). The first floor is the base for the office of the
registrar and staff, as well as the office of the bursar and staff. The building was
completed and occupied in 2013.
(2) FOE building.
The main FOE building is the oldest of the most recently completed buildings on
the main campus and houses five departments. The departments are agricultural
and food engineering, chemical and petroleum engineering, civil engineering,
electrical/electronic and computer engineering and mechanical and aerospace
engineering.
(3) FOS building.
The FOS building is a multi-storey facility recently completed and occupied. It
houses the office of the dean, FOS, as well as eight departments. The departments
are animal and environmental biology, botany and ecological studies, chemistry,
computer science, microbiology, physics, mathematics and statistics and zoology.
(4) PGS building.
The PGS building is a two-storey building that houses the dean and other
supportive staff of the PGS. It comprises of the office of the dean, PGS, the offices
of the administrative staff and a general reception lobby. It has three lecture halls
and a conference room where PG board meetings and all PG external examinations
are held.
Pilot study
A pilot study was conducted to:
 establish the population frame for the study; and
 test reliability and validity of contents of the questionnaire.
According to Fellows and Liu (2008), pilot study helps to among others, identify unclear or
ambiguous items in a questionnaire, alert the researcher about where the main research will
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likely have challenges, and indicate whether proposed methods or instruments are University of
inappropriate or too complicated. The pilot study was also used to get information about a Uyo buildings
brief history of the four buildings. The result of the pilot study is shown in Table I.
Sample and sampling technique

According to Kothari (2004), the process of selecting respondents as representative of a total
population as possible to produce a miniature cross-section is called sampling technique,
while the selected respondents constitute a sample. Target respondents were academic staff,
non-academic staff and students. The formula provided by Yamane (1967) was used to
generate the sample size for academic and non-academic staff as follows:
N
n¼
1 þ N ðe Þ2
Where n = sample size, N = population size and e = level of precision = 0.05 at 95 per cent
confidence level.
Table I shows how the formula was used to generate a sample size for the study. It shows
that from a sample frame of 395 comprising 221 academic staff and 174 non-academic staff,
293 sample units were generated.
The sample for this study was drawn from the population using random and purposive
sampling. Random sampling from a finite population refers to that method of sample
selection, which gives each possible sample combination an equal probability of being
picked up and each item in the entire population to have an equal chance of being included
in the sample (Kothari, 2004). It was used in this study to select a sample of academic and
non-academic staff. Here, initials of both academic and non-academic staff were first written
on cards and shuffled several times while the top card is selected each time they are shuffled
until the required sample size was met. This same technique was adopted by Durodola
(2009) and Ikediashi (2014). However, a purposive sampling technique was adopted to select
10 students for each of the four buildings. This was to ensure unanimity in selection as there
is no documented list of students who visit 2 of the 4 buildings used for the survey. The total
sample size was 333.
Data collection and analysis

Data for this research were collected through a structured questionnaire. This strategy was
adopted because of its inherent advantages. According to Saunders et al. (2009), such
benefits are:
 data is generated in a standardised format thereby facilitating easier analysis;
 bias errors are drastically reduced; and
Facility-in-use Academic staff Non-academic staff Sample frame Sample
PGS 1 20 21 20
FOS 136 68 204 135 Table I.
FOE 81 35 116 90 Results of the pilot
Senate building 3 51 54 48 study and calculation
Total 221 174 395 293 of sample size
JEDT  it is relatively faster and more convenient to collect potential information from a
large group of respondents.
Respondents were asked questions that bordered on technical and functional performance,
as well as barriers hindering POEs in universities.
The questionnaire survey had four sections. Section A asked for respondents’
demographics, while section B focussed on the functional performance of buildings.Section
C related to questions on the technical performance of buildings while section D was on
barriers to effective POEs in universities. However, while the technical staff was asked to
answer all questions in the questionnaire including the technical performance section,other
respondents were excluded from answering questions in section C (technical performance).
To ensure that this was effectively carried out, face-to-face administration of the
questionnaire with the help of a research assistant was adopted. Likert scale was the main
scale of measure for the study and has been widely acclaimed as an acceptable way of
soliciting opinions using numbers to represent implicit meanings (Fadiya et al., 2012).
Besides, it has been extensively used in the literature for general construction management
research (Assaf et al., 2011; Adewunmi et al., 2011).
Results and discussion of findings

Response rate and profile of respondents
As noted previously, the main aim of this study was to examine the use of POE for
evaluating the performance of university buildings using selected buildings at the
University of Uyo as a case study. Table II shows the results of the analysis for the response
rate of the study.
It indicates that out of 333 copies of the questionnaire used for the first strand of the
survey, 124 returned valid responses giving a response rate of 37 per cent. However, as
noted in the previous chapter, only technical/maintenance personnel were asked to answer
all sections of the questionnaire. Accordingly, 27 respondents answered questions relating
to the technical performance of the buildings.
Table III shows the general characteristics of respondents that participated in the survey.
According to the results, 43 of the 124 respondents were female, while 81 were male. In
terms of the job description, 23 were academic staff, 46 were administrative staff and 27
were technical/maintenance staff. In total, 28 students participated in the survey.
In terms of lengths of stay in the buildings, 13 of those who participated in the survey
have occupied the buildings between 0 and 6 months while 17 said they had spent between 7
and 12months in the buildings. Additionally, 26 of the 124 respondents had spent between
25 and 36 months while 14 or 11 per cent of the respondents have stayed over 36months.
A cursory look at the results indicates that respondents are relatively spread in terms of
sex giving the number of staff most times are usually skewed towards the menfolk. It is also
clear from the results that the administrative staff were the largest number respondents at
Facility-in-use Sample Administered Returned Response rate (%)
PGS 20 30 17 57
FOS 135 145 34 23
Table II. FOE 90 100 45 45
Response rate General admin 48 58 28 48
analysis Total 293 333 124 37
Frequency (%)
University of
Uyo buildings
Sex
Male 81 65
Female 43 35
Total 124 100
Job description
Academic staff 23 19
Admin staff 46 36
Technical/maintenance staff 27 22
Students 28 23
Total 124 100
Length of stay in the building
0-6 months 13 11
7-12 months 17 14
13-24 moths 54 44 Table III.
25-36 months 26 21 General
Above 36 months 14 11 characteristics of
Total 124 100 respondents
36 per cent. However, it is worth noting that this is by no means an indication that there are
more administrative staff in the university community but most likely because of the fact
that most of the academic staff did not indicate interest to participate in the survey.
To get a clearer understanding of how each group of respondents participated in the
survey, a cross-tabulation of job description versus building-in-use was carried out using
SPSS. The result of the analysis is shown in Table IV.
It shows that the highest number of 13 of the 23 academic staff were from FOE building,
8 from FOS, 2 from the GA building, and none from the PGS. Additionally, the result shows
that the highest number of 17 out of 46 administrative staff participated from the GA
building, 10 from FOS and PGS, while 9 were from FOE building. More so, 14 of the
technical/maintenance staff were from engineering while only 2 participated from PGS.
However, the number of students were evenly spread across the four buildings.
Reliability check
A reliability check was carried using Cronbach’s alpha on three major sets of constructs
used for analysis. This was to assess the internal consistency of the scales and their
suitability for analysis. Alpha values greater than 0.7 are regarded as sufficient (Easterby-
Smith et al., 200 8; Pallant, 2010). The result of the analysis is shown in Table V.
Building-in-use
Job description of respondents General admin FOE FOS PGS Total
Academic staff 2 13 8 – 23
Admin staff 17 9 10 10 46
Technical/maintenance 3 14 8 2 27 Table IV.
Students 6 9 8 5 28 Result of cross-
Total 28 45 34 17 124 tabulation analysis
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